Has the Human race become lazy

Milkyway

Milkyway

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My 92yr old Dad has a saying...& I quite Agee with him;
I quote:

TECHNOLOGY WILL BE THE DEATH OF MAN...

Everyday, It seems that there is a new invention for the simplest of things.
I have to pinch myself sometimes & think...does somebody really need or want that device.
Just watching TV... the amount of things that can be bought or delivered by the touch of a button.
A few years ago, I hired a ‘modern’ car for a week to go on holiday, but I can’t say that driving it was an enjoyable experience.

I don’t consider myself, particularly old & tend to try & have a view on modern life.
My children are in their early twenties & have quite a few younger members of the family.

I really have to ask myself... what does THEIR future look like.
 
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Humans invent stupid **** all the time , this also goes to the time of your old man. There are enough hard working people in the word. Being lazy is a personal choice , very little to do with technology.
 
Milkyway said:
My 92yr old Dad has a saying...& I quite Agee with him;
I quote:

TECHNOLOGY WILL BE THE DEATH OF MAN...

Everyday, It seems that there is a new invention for the simplest of things.
I have to pinch myself sometimes & think...does somebody really need or want that device.
Just watching TV... the amount of things that can be bought or delivered by the touch of a button.
A few years ago, I hired a ‘modern’ car for a week to go on holiday, but I can’t say that driving it was an enjoyable experience.

I don’t consider myself, particularly old & tend to try & have a view on modern life.
My children are in their early twenties & have quite a few younger members of the family.

I really have to ask myself... what does THEIR future look like.
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Milkyway said:
My 92yr old Dad has a saying...& I quite Agee with him;
I quote:

TECHNOLOGY WILL BE THE DEATH OF MAN...

Everyday, It seems that there is a new invention for the simplest of things.
I have to pinch myself sometimes & think...does somebody really need or want that device.
Just watching TV... the amount of things that can be bought or delivered by the touch of a button.
A few years ago, I hired a ‘modern’ car for a week to go on holiday, but I can’t say that driving it was an enjoyable experience.

I don’t consider myself, particularly old & tend to try & have a view on modern life.
My children are in their early twenties & have quite a few younger members of the family.

I really have to ask myself... what does THEIR future look like.
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Surely the fact so many people put so much effort into inventing all this stuff shows they're not that lazy
 
Agreed.... using technology to moan about the technology of today.

Technology has its place in the world...or else we would still be ploughing fields with horses...
But...is it reaching saturation point now.

The way I look at it... children / teenagers of today have grown up, not knowing any different.
To them, it is just a normal way of life.
 
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Coming from a hearing and visually impaired blind bat, I do find a few modern techs useful. E.g. table service in pubs via an app e.g. the Weatherspoon or Greene King apps which means that I don't have the communications barrier from having to order from a bar. Also, as I'm too visually impaired to drive, I appreciate that I can order groceries on the web.

For the main part though, I do agree with all of you here. We have become lazy sods, ordering takeaways to our homes via an app or the web, teleworking (working from home) and having more channels on free TV than you can swing a cat at. We have largely become a services-based nation, working in sedentary office jobs. Watch a screen for 8 hours during work time, then go home, and again watch a screen.

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I find it quite funny when you watch an OLD series or film that was set in the future...they usually wasn’t very far out.
 
Milkyway said:
A few years ago, I hired a ‘modern’ car for a week to go on holiday, but I can’t say that driving it was an enjoyable experience.
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for the vast majority of people who drive, they don't see it as a source of enjoyment, but as a (necessary) means of getting from A to B. In That regard 'modern' cars are almost immeasurably better than older ones. Easier to drive, safer, quieter, more reliable, more efficient, etc.

As to the general "technology will be the death of us" - well, people have been saying that, in one way or another, for literally hundreds/thousands of years:

For example - here is a picture from Punch (a very old satirical magazine) from 1906....
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The details are different, but the underlying message is the same: New technology threatens real human interaction. That was printed more than 20 years before your Dad was born. Even then - this wasn't an original complaint - the same thing was said about the telephone 30 odd years earlier.

The printing press caused a consternation when it was invented in the 15th century - people believed it would lead to the dissemination of false information (does that sound at all familiar).

Plato argued against writing !! Saying it would hurt peoples ability to remember things:
If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.
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That was over 2000 years ago.

All that and... we're still here.
 
I read somewhere, that cars should be classed as ‘white goods’...

There again...When we bought the original PlayStation, I got my Binetone ‘bip bop’ tennis / Hocky / basketball TV game out of the attic for comparison.
 
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I really dont understand the thread, the world moved on and cars are considerably better than the ones i started with in the 1990`s so i dont know why he is bashing modern cars. I wouldnt drive a vintage car if you gifted me one for free.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I watched Wall-E and I think it’s honestly where we will end up eventually.
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i see this said a lot and i wonder, other than the fitness thing, what's the issue? aren't we designing technology to make life easier? to make tasks quicker, so that we can take our time and be more lazy? i think at some point in the not too distant future, they need to consider with all this tech advancements, why are we still working 5 out of 7 days a week. why not 4 on, 3 off?
 
I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that some people complained about the invention of the throwing stick on the basis that being able to throw sharp sticks further was making people lazy in hunting.

The pace of change is vastly greater nowadays, which has an effect. It's only quite recently that technology has made it possible for many people to live without doing anywhere near enough exercise to maintain even vaguely good health. But I don't think that technology is causing laziness. I don't think people have changed significantly over the last couple of hundred thousand years.
 
Pretty general statement. What about pandemics, war, meteorites, asteroids, global warming. I don't see why tech should result in the death of man. We will all die of laziness?

He's probably taken a common general statement and added the word technology to it.
 
jsmoke said:
Pretty general statement. What about pandemics, war, meteorites, asteroids, global warming. I don't see why tech should result in the death of man. We will all die of laziness? [..]
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Ennui, maybe. I recall a sci-fi short story I read ages ago in which tech had rendered humans obsolete and over a period of time the human population dwindled due to a lack of any purpose. Anything any human could do a machine could do better. Humanity going extinct without even a whimper, let alone a bang. Maybe that will happen. But not soon.
 
It is easy to blame tech - but laziness comes from within really - people are to varying levels inclined towards it IMO.

A big part of more people falling back on lazier instincts is the march of progress in general some of it connected to tech but lots of it isn't, there is less of the world unknown, less to explore, less meaningful things to aspire to i.e. there is very little truly new in politics these days - people just don't have the motivation or necessity in their lives.
 
Some very interesting views & comments on here.

It gets you thinking about when our ancestors discovered fire or invented the wheel... how society would have reacted at first.
I expect that there were a a few sceptics at the time too.
 
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