Comments on: nature vs civilization. technology breeds happiness?

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:33:43 +0000

” Nothing is more commonplace than to lament that moral progress has failed to keep pace with scientific knowledge. If only we were more intelligent or more moral, we could use technology only for benign ends. The fault is not our tools, we say, but in ourselves.
” In one sense this is true. Technical progress leaves only one problem unsolved: the frailty of human nature. Unfortunately that problem is insoluble.”
- excerpts from ‘Straw Dogs’ by John Gray in the section “why humanity will never master technology”.

By: rocksea

rocksea — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:52:38 +0000

hi da! happy to see you here

yes it all depends on how we take it. but sometimes some of it are forced on us as well. let us see whether humans adapt to technology or technology will adopt and adapt us!! :O

By: Arun Ravi

Arun Ravi — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:36:31 +0000

gosh.. So complicated! Technology itself is a sort of happiness.. it often generates new definitions for happiness too.. So can’t answer blindly.. It all depends on the recipients..
Then I truely envy you roxy.. for all your photographs.. Amazing..:)

By: sunny

sunny — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:12:42 +0000

Hi,

It is a biggest myth that we invent or are using technology to bring happiness. Infact technology is the manifestation of the ability of our human species. Infact every species show some capibilities and inborn technologies.

So technology is our extention our environment ..we ourself. we are not complete eithout it and GOD(scheme of things) choose and gave us this capability.

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:03:07 +0000

THANK GOD for technology, aren’t we finding happiness from it? Certainly it is helping us so much, dear. Imagine us without it!

By: rocksea

rocksea — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:37:48 +0000

well said sarah sweetheart. i think somewhere most of us get unbalanced in this balancing procedure when you try to compensate the lost happiness with better technology.

anyways, technology has helped us a lot in OUR happiness, right

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:59:53 +0000

Me think technology has not really changed our state of happiness much. Earlier, we had a less sophisticated life and found happiness in simpler things and maybe we had more time too. As the days get busier and stressful ‘coz of technology, it makes us less happy and people are turning to newer technologies (pretty ironical huh?) to find the lost happiness in whatever time they can. So, it is a sort of evolution we are undergoing along with technology.

By: rocksea

rocksea — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:13:40 +0000

cibbuano, geetha, theresa, pradeep , thank you for your significant views on technology and happiness. it seems to me that people have different perspectives on happiness and it depends on each situation/person. anyways it is great to see from the poll that a higher percent are able to extract happiness out of technology. may be people are getting wiser

By: Pradeep Nair

Pradeep Nair — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:28:08 +0000

Happiness is a state of mind that one has discover from moment to moment, and it is not dependent on technology (or even salary or other material comforts).

By: Theresa

Theresa — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:47:01 +0000

Yes, I quite agree that reading does bring people a lot of advantages, and certainly does make us more knowledgable. One more reason why i like reading is that I pick up a lot of writing styles from different authors and poets, and I also get to widen my vocabulary. ^_^ And an addition is that I get inspired also! lol