Technology advances-good or bad?

Technology is advancing rapidly lately and i'm asking your opinion if advancing technology is a good thing or a bad thing?

I am all in favor of technology as i think most of you know i always have been interested in the latest gadgets and gismos and researches but i have to admit technology is not all good.

The more technology advances the more busy our life will be and their for the more it controls us.

The whole "robots taking over" thing.I think it CAN happen once we figure out how to make a creative,learning robot.

I don't think it is moving as rapidly as it did in the 50's and 60's. I mean the war was over, the TV just came about. There not much actually new coming out it's just a develpoment of old stuff. So to answer your question, No I'm not concerned.

Montrose wrote:I don't think it is moving as rapidly as it did in the 50's and 60's. I mean the war was over, the TV just came about. There not much actually new coming out it's just a develpoment of old stuff. So to answer your question, No I'm not concerned.

I think it is almost every week i hear about a new and found technology most of the time its little things. Look at computer hardware every month or so a new piece of hardware is released sooner or later our future PCs could be today's Supercomputers

Yes but they are developments of a computer. When the TV or computer for that matter was invented, they started with nothing. Nothing like it had gone before.

you got a point their nothing truly new has been invented except the mobile at 2000

The mobile as you know it was 2000, but there was so called 'Yuppies' that had mobiles in the 80's, it was seriously like talking into a laptop they were so big!

oh yeah those i heard of them

they wern't popular

something else that was recently invented is new power sources

Go on... which power sources?

Solar is old, wind power is ancient, think Holland!

i think geothermal and that other thing

the power source of damns

i knew 2 more but i forgot

Dams were pre war. You must know about dambusters? They burst dams!

no no lol

they built something inside the damn so that the running water would generate electricity

Hydro Electric. That's where I get my power from!

http://www.aboutbritain.com/HydroElectricVisitorCentre.htm

It is a visitor centre and has a fish ladder so the fish don't get killed!

wow impressive

here we'r still using oil and no other way to get eletricity except buying a solar pannle and install it to your house

its also a good source of money for the goverment since they charge for visits = fewer taxes

There is oil and coal power stations as well. But I chose the tariff that gets it from there!

is it cheaper or about same price?

Tymon wrote:its also a good source of money for the goverment since they charge for visits = fewer taxes

I think it goes to Scottish Hydro Electric. They run the dam and visitor etc. They used to be the Government Electric Company before privatisation and now we have a free market and expensive power!

Tymon wrote:is it cheaper or about same price?

The price compared to coal and oil is around the same.

well the problem is that damn can only generate so much electricity it can't possibly generate for the whole country you have to build a damn at each river or even more then 1 damn on the rivers to have enough for the whole country

You've hit the nail on the head there. Thats why they still use oil and coal.

you can build wind farms at sea i think that's the best idea yet



as you can see tough it kina ruins the see view but that isn't really a big deal

anyway i'm off to bed hope you log in tomorrow i had lots of fun talking to ya tomorrow i'l start advertising

We have loads of wind farms up on the hills!

cool

we as for now have NOTHING not even 1 wind turbine

Tymon wrote:Technology is advancing rapidly lately and i'm asking your opinion if advancing technology is a good thing or a bad thing?

I am all in favor of technology as i think most of you know i always have been interested in the latest gadgets and gismos and researches but i have to admit technology is not all good.

The more technology advances the more busy our life will be and their for the more it controls us.

The whole "robots taking over" thing.I think it CAN happen once we figure out how to make a creative,learning robot.

I think its alright but I cant stand automatic toliets, sinks, and lights!

I think its brilliant to a point, machines to make life easier arent needed, machines to save lives are welcomed