Is technology taking over our lives?!?

tempo_n_groove

I'm asking if you think that Technology is taking over our lives and what the ramifications or downfalls may or might be?

For instance I have a phone that knows where I parked my car, where I work and where I live yet I've programmed none of this in my phone, it just knows.

The phone also tells me whom might be calling when there is a number that calls me that isn't in my contacts.

There is face recognition everywhere now.

Alexa listens and monitors what you say.

Your advertising on your computer/phone is from pages you directly looked at.

I feel that there is so much dependency on tech now and the potential uses of it against us kind of frightens me.

Thoughts?

hedonist

I try to separate technology from my own independence.  Some is fine, useful, and incorporated well for my means.  My parameters - I am mine.

But, no need for reverse-cameras in my car; I use my eyes and mirrors.  Got parallel-parking down.  Would rather enjoy driving myself - gunning it with music cranking, controlling my own speed, my own decisions based on experience - than have a self-driving vehicle.  I rarely click on ad links so that's mostly off of my radar, even if right on the screen.

...and on.

Like being taken advantage of, dependency on devices is of our own...device.

Freedom of choice, to the largest degree as possible.  With common sense, of course.

brianlux

Is technology taking over our lives?

I'd say for most, yes.  People in first world countries in particular are losing many skills because of reliance on technology, even basic skills- things like using a map and compass when no GPS is available, spelling without a machine to help, doing basic math without a calculator, etc.  And then there's the sense we are developing as a culture that we are insecure without a phone on us even for a short period of time, feeling the need to be hooked up to the airwaves all the time, relying on sketchy information on the internet instead of using our own mind and senses to understand the world.   When artificial intelligence is perfected, machines will either tell us what to do or tell us to get a life.  When I'm out walking in the woods or even around town without a device on my person, it feels good to live without these technological addictions for a while.

brianlux

By the way, t 'n g,  great question!

Bentleyspop

Yes

PP193448

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm asking if you think that Technology is taking over our lives and what the ramifications or downfalls may or might be?

For instance I have a phone that knows where I parked my car, where I work and where I live yet I've programmed none of this in my phone, it just knows.

The phone also tells me whom might be calling when there is a number that calls me that isn't in my contacts.

There is face recognition everywhere now.

Alexa listens and monitors what you say.

Your advertising on your computer/phone is from pages you directly looked at.

I feel that there is so much dependency on tech now and the potential uses of it against us kind of frightens me.

Thoughts?

I am pondering your questions as I type on my iPad via WiFi here at work in front of my computer with my iPhone in my pocket alerting me with texts...

HesCalledDyer

What creeps me out is I will look at something on my phone or computer at home, on my home network, under my personal logins.  And then I come to work, on my work computer, on my work logins, and get ads for shit I was looking up at home.

CM189191

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCpsG21dl9o

Billy skipped school again looking like a fool again

What a little waste for a taste of a big boys life

I'm scared for the children

Computer screens and magazines

Manufactured hopes and dreams

Playing in a concrete box cause mother's got her shows to watch

I'm scared for the children

This is the end of the age of the innocent

One more game before they go

This is the end of the age of the innocent

What will we leave them with

Suppose we'll never know

Processed greens and man made meat

running out of things to eat

Little boys having way too much fun playing with a big boys gun

I'm scared for the children

And on the day the last bird dies

There won't be a drop from their big square eyes

An old man with his eyes just like glass

Kisses the last blade of grass

I'm scared for the children

No respect for anyone

Why would they after what we done

What an example we have set, what a planet we have left

Let's be there for these children

Go Beavers

I guess the answer might be in the question of what your response is when you can't connect. When you're wifi is out, you have no signal, your electricity is out, cable out, etc. In those times, it forces detachment. If you practice detachment from things, then it's probably not that big of a deal. If you haven't practiced it, you might feel out of sorts and uncomfortable/agitated. I think GenXers and older folks may have an advantage because we grew up not being connected electronically. For younger people, they may have to make a repeated commitment to consciously disconnect and learn to experience that feeling by choice.

tempo_n_groove

Let me ask this in another way. 

Do tou think that technology is invading your privacy?

PJPOWER

Go Beavers said:

I guess the answer might be in the question of what your response is when you can't connect. When you're wifi is out, you have no signal, your electricity is out, cable out, etc. In those times, it forces detachment. If you practice detachment from things, then it's probably not that big of a deal. If you haven't practiced it, you might feel out of sorts and uncomfortable/agitated. I think GenXers and older folks may have an advantage because we grew up not being connected electronically. For younger people, they may have to make a repeated commitment to consciously disconnect and learn to experience that feeling by choice.

I agree and think that it is very important to disconnect from tech now and then.  Personally, I like hiking and hunting, but there are lots of escapes.  It is refreshing being somewhere without the “noise”.  I make a conscience effort to push my son to play outside as much as possible, knowing full well that he will be drenched in the world of tech as he gets older.  Hopefully he will still like the great outdoors too... 

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

Let me ask this in another way. 

Do tou think that technology is invading your privacy?

Not really but then I keep in mind that anything I put out or look up on a computer is no longer private.  If I want something to be kept private, I'm not going to involve a computer and maybe not even a phone.  That includes sex, going to the bathroom and, definitely, brushing my teeth.

On a personal note- I realized this morning how technologically unhinged I am.  I tried to call my wife's iPhone with my cell phone this morning and I haven't written her number in my little address book and I didn't know how to access my cell phone's address book.  Pathetic!  

josevolution

It's to late there is not turning back ...

tempo_n_groove

josevolution said:

It's to late there is not turning back ...

I completely agree Jose.

WhatYouTaughtMe

tempo_n_groove said:

Let me ask this in another way. 

Do you think that technology is invading your privacy?

Absolutely. I was just talking about this the other day with a couple of friends. One was telling me that after a long conversation with a co-worker about anti-convulsant drugs, the next day he started getting ads on his phone browser for anti-convulsant medications. He said he has never searched for them and has no history of seizures himself. Creeped him out. 

Then, the very next day I received an ad on my YouTube app for dental dam. This was less than 48 hours after standing and listening to two co-workers have an inappropriate conversation about it. I have never searched for anything on my phone related to dental dam, yet there it was. 

I have the Google assistant/voice commands turned off on my phone and we are convinced they are mining voice data anyway. I consider going back to an old fashioned flip phone everyday. 

brianlux

josevolution said:

It's to late there is not turning back ...

tempo_n_groove said:

josevolution said:

It's to late there is not turning back ...

I completely agree Jose.

Would either of you (or any one can answer) want to turn back?  If so, to what point?  If not, how much further would you like to see technology advance?

tempo_n_groove

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Let me ask this in another way. 

Do you think that technology is invading your privacy?

Absolutely. I was just talking about this the other day with a couple of friends. One was telling me that after a long conversation with a co-worker about anti-convulsant drugs, the next day he started getting ads on his phone browser for anti-convulsant medications. He said he has never searched for them and has no history of seizures himself. Creeped him out. 

Then, the very next day I received an ad on my YouTube app for dental dam. This was less than 48 hours after standing and listening to two co-workers have an inappropriate conversation about it. I have never searched for anything on my phone related to dental dam, yet there it was. 

I have the Google assistant/voice commands turned off on my phone and we are convinced they are mining voice data anyway. I consider going back to an old fashioned flip phone everyday. 

I've had these very converstions with people about my computer showing ads that I only discussed...  Crazy.

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

josevolution said:

It's to late there is not turning back ...

tempo_n_groove said:

josevolution said:

It's to late there is not turning back ...

I completely agree Jose.

Would either of you (or any one can answer) want to turn back?  If so, to what point?  If not, how much further would you like to see technology advance?

We can't go back but we can all stop using devices if needed be...

WhatYouTaughtMe

tempo_n_groove said:

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Let me ask this in another way. 

Do you think that technology is invading your privacy?

Absolutely. I was just talking about this the other day with a couple of friends. One was telling me that after a long conversation with a co-worker about anti-convulsant drugs, the next day he started getting ads on his phone browser for anti-convulsant medications. He said he has never searched for them and has no history of seizures himself. Creeped him out. 

Then, the very next day I received an ad on my YouTube app for dental dam. This was less than 48 hours after standing and listening to two co-workers have an inappropriate conversation about it. I have never searched for anything on my phone related to dental dam, yet there it was. 

I have the Google assistant/voice commands turned off on my phone and we are convinced they are mining voice data anyway. I consider going back to an old fashioned flip phone everyday. 

I've had these very converstions with people about my computer showing ads that I only discussed...  Crazy.

Normal everyday things I might not have noticed, but in both of our cases it was something very specific and random that we had discussed or heard very recently.

bootlegger10

The answer is yes.  We've won.

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josevolution

bootlegger10 said:

The answer is yes.  We've won.

Please note this was an automated response from Bootlegger10's iPhone.

Awesome lol