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  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    According to Bill Gates everything in our home will soon be run by Windows at some grand control hub.

    Who wants to have their whole life run by Microsoft? As if we are not divorced enough from our natural selfs with things like ready meals. It really feels like the human race is becoming a slave to Microsoft technology and more generally divorced from our natural environment.

    You could always just enjoy the technology and have some fun. Why do you feel a slave to ready meals? Just don't eat them!
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
  • Tojo_Ralph
    Tojo_Ralph Posts: 8,373 Forumite
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    That'll be just another remote control in the house that nobody lets me near. :(
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  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    magyar wrote:
    You could always just enjoy the technology and have some fun. Why do you feel a slave to ready meals? Just don't eat them!

    You can never step outside the scope of technology in this world. Technology is so in built into the world that you in time no longer see it. It is near impossible to reject technology in single items as technology is built into the world.
    :beer:
  • Fifer
    Fifer Posts: 59,413 Forumite
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    You can never step outside the scope of technology in this world. Technology is so in built into the world that you in time no longer see it. It is near impossible to reject technology in single items as technology is built into the world.
    Have you a reason to want to avoid technology?
    There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
    It's for the many and not the few. Be sure it's out there looking for you.
    In every town, in every state. In every house and every gate.
    Wth every precious smile you make. And every act of kindness.
    Micheal Marra, 1952 - 2012
  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    You can never step outside the scope of technology in this world. Technology is so in built into the world that you in time no longer see it. It is near impossible to reject technology in single items as technology is built into the world.

    Did I suggest rejecting technology?
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    Fifer wrote:
    Have you a reason to want to avoid technology?

    Some people like Marx think you do. It is seen as it reduces human abilities and reduces human freedom as the answer to every problem can only be in the form of technology and you can not have the freedom to think out of technology.
    :beer:
  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    Some people like Marx think you do. It is seen as it reduces human abilities and reduces human freedom as the answer to every problem can only be in the form of technology and you can not have the freedom to think out of technology.

    I don't think Marx's theories seem to have done us all much good so far!
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    magyar wrote:
    I don't think Marx's theories seem to have done us all much good so far!

    Maybe not as political theory but he really in the Father of technology ethics and technology in society.
    :beer:
  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    Maybe not as political theory but he really in the Father of technology ethics and technology in society.

    No idea what he said on the matter, really. Just don't see how I'm enslaved by this computer I'm writing on. Or the iPod which is providing me some nice choonz for a friday afternoon.
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
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