Why are we so fascinated by technology?

Ex-RoNiN · 23 May 2006 at 00:13

Every time we have a thread about a piece of technology, be it something like the Titanic, the Eurofighter, the Space Shuttle, or other products of technologies, we have a huge thread and debate about it, which shows that its an interesting topic which many people try to understand and comment on from many different angles.

Why is that? Why are we so fascinated by technology that we continously engage ourselves with it?

chris_r · 23 May 2006 at 00:14

I think it's simple, we like new things and we love to be amazed

Yewen · 23 May 2006 at 00:14

We like to better ourselves, and through technology is the way most forum members like to do it, or at least have a passing interest in it, lot of people makes a good debates.

Face it people will not use a Overclocking forums if they do not have a reasonable level of competancy with a computer.

james.miller · 23 May 2006 at 00:15

probably because it shows what man can do if we stick our heads together. every step in technology is an achievement for mankind, probably why im so interested in tech

PardonTheWait · 23 May 2006 at 00:15

Because it's rad.

Nix · 23 May 2006 at 00:15

Yewen said:
We like to better ourselves, and through technology is the way most forum members like to do it, or at least have a passing interest in it, lot of people makes a good debates.

Face it people will not use a Overclocking forums if they do not have a reasonable level of competancy with a computer.

What's the interweb?

iCraig · 23 May 2006 at 00:22

Because we love to push the boundaries of what we can do as a civilisation, sometimes it kills us, and sometimes we attain things beyond our ancestors wildest dreams - it's all part of the adventure.

Plus, gadgets impress the girls. I think.

Mr_L · 23 May 2006 at 00:24

iCraig said:
Plus, gadgets impress the girls. I think.

Depends on the size of the gadget tbh.

Calum · 23 May 2006 at 00:31

lol, too true too true

Yewen · 23 May 2006 at 02:21

Nix said:
What's the interweb?

It is the home of pornography.

Mr Bulbous · 23 May 2006 at 02:51

Technology is just a fancy word for Human evolvement. Evolving gradually leads to a better way of life for us all.

Long may it continue, the World is in a right mess just now.

Nozzer · 23 May 2006 at 03:08

It's because we're nerds.

NathanE · 23 May 2006 at 07:43

We're like magpies... we like shiney things...

woodsy2k · 23 May 2006 at 08:52

^^^ Yup, agree with that.

Personally i think its really interesting that new things come out that can do the same tast as a previouse item/model etc but so much better.

Not only is it that, but its the fact that someone / a group of people managed to think of a better way of doing it, and came about with a design.

("It" being what ever the task in hand is. like a new cpu architecture or making a ccd or anything that is technological really)

Woodsy

DJammyRasta · 23 May 2006 at 10:18

porn and shiney things... i ask you what more out of life do u need ?

james.miller · 23 May 2006 at 10:21

DJammyRasta said:
porn and shiney things... i ask you what more out of life do u need ?

round things. footballs, bottoms, breasts, sorted.

callmeBadger · 23 May 2006 at 10:48

Technology enriches our lives.

When I was young, we had to wait 40 mins for a Pizza to be cooked, now we can do it in a Microwave in 3 mins.

Imagine what possibilities the future will bring, Pizza in under 60 seconds, we can only hope.

Fusion · 23 May 2006 at 10:54

[agrees with noz]

How anyone can fail to be impressed by applications of technology such as space exploration, is beyond me, but it's quite a frequent occurrence.

callmeBadger · 23 May 2006 at 11:40

What I want to see is some proper visible developments. We hear all the times about a new protein string or theorhetical development in some barly understandable field of Phyics.

We had the Space Race, then we had someone say "we're going to make a supersonic airliner"

These were events that inspired people, I know we are still researching and investing in science but can't they sex it up a bit, announce something that will inspire the same type of hype as in the 60's.

"I belive that this nation should commit itself t achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." - JF Kennedy (can't remember when sometime in early 60's)