Do you hate being alive in 2015 considering technology?

[Platypus]

too bad mankind will destroy itself before the greatness you seek is achieved.

 

[irishScott]

too bad mankind will destroy itself before the greatness you seek is achieved.

Yeah, we were supposed to do that several times over during the Cold War. Didn't happen. What's our biggest existential problem today? Global warming. Worst case scenario there is a lot of people die while we fix it over a century or two, the human race as a whole will be fine. Hell it's quite possible that more efficient energy generation technologies will have cured the problem by the end of the century.

The only way I see mankind actually dying out is if there really is no physical way to travel to other solar systems and we slowly chew up our solar system's natural resources over a few tens of thousands of years and literally run out of water. Given that we don't even know what dark matter is, I'm not putting too much stock in that timeline.

 

[master_shake_]

honestly i would have rather been in a time without technology.

but i would like to lose all knowledge of what technology was like.

 

[irishScott]

honestly i would have rather been in a time without technology.

but i would like to lose all knowledge of what technology was like.

And yet you're posting on a technology forum...

Primitive tribes still exist in other parts of the world. Hell hippie communes exist in the US. Go join one of those and live (more-or-less) off the grid!

 

[master_shake_]

And yet you're posting on a technology forum...

Primitive tribes still exist in other parts of the world. Hell hippie communes exist in the US. Go join one of those and live (more-or-less) off the grid!

missed the second part did you.

i'd still know

😀

 

[irishScott]

missed the second part did you.

i'd still know

😀

I read it, just saying if you dislike technology as much as you claim you'd adapt. 🙂

I'm not sure I'd want to live life with every disease being incurable, a life expectancy in the late 30s, rampant infant mortality, freezing and scorching weather being a serious health concern, poor sanitation, etc. There's a reason we invented technology, and it wasn't because what came before was better. 😛

 

[OverVolt]

I actually think so long as you were healthy the past was probably a happier time to live. More face to face interaction.

 

[IronWing]

honestly i would have rather been in a time without technology.

but i would like to lose all knowledge of what technology was like.

Except for indoor plumbing, oh, and microwave popcorn, the good stuff with the artificial butter flavored yellow crap that killed all them butter flavor workers. Their sacrifice was so worth it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I like this post. So what is the solution, a dystopia like The Giver?

Hard to tell. Way I could see it happen is people will move to a different lifestyle independently. Basically it will become common for families to stay in the same house and depend less on technology/outside services and everyone in the household will have their role, and maybe 1-2 people will have a job which will basically be to pay the taxes to not lose the property. People will farm their own food, cut and burn wood for energy etc... basically go back to low tech ages because nobody will be able to afford technology and services and have to live off grid. This will then snowball and cause companies to layoff the little jobs that are left, and eventually fold because nobody can afford their services due to lack of jobs. I don't imagine this will happen any time soon, but it could head that way I think unless something drastic happens to take care of the constantly increasing unemployment rate and cost of living increase rate.

 

[Dirigible]

I certainly don't hate being alive now. Now is the best time to have been alive thus far, after all. I would also like to see what happens in the future though.

Yup. I'm keenly aware that I am one of the luckiest human beings who ever existed. My life is so freaking easy and risk free. It doesn't occur to me to mope over perhaps missing out on being even luckier.