[JulyZerg]

This is a topic we discussed in class and it's got me wondering exactly, who are we in today's digital age? What do you guys think? <discuss>

Edit: what it means is the advantages and disadvantages of technology today and/or how significant or insignificant does the technology we have today impact us?

[Eff-1]

Depends if you take the red pill or the blue pill.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/RedpillMatrix.png

[jnesss]

Depends if you take the red pill or the blue pill.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/RedpillMatrix.png

i'll take both, plz :fullofwin:

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

uh wanna be a bit more specific?

we are people that use digital devices. what do u mean who are we? we're human beings with technology.

[Hondaracer]

connectivity/accessibility wired in 90% of the time, not quite yet at full automation

[Jsunu]

In the digital age we are 1000x more intimate with a person, but yet at the same time, we have never been more distant.

I also think that who we are in the digital age is completely out there in the open, to be perused by anyone.

[JulyZerg]

what it means is the advantages and disadvantages of technology today and/or how significant or insignificant does the technology we have today impact us?
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[Hondaracer]

these days society IS technology lol

[wouwou]

we are closer, and more distant with each other than ever.

at the same time.

[matrixfwd]

looks like somebody's assignment question :D
advantage: Post a homework question on an online forum to get someone else to answer

[JulyZerg]

looks like somebody's assignment question :D
advantage: Post a homework question on an online forum to get someone else to answer

Lol no. Just curious since RS seemed a bit quiet =/
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[Ronin]

LOL so basically you want us to do your homework for you...

If you want an example of how important technology is to us today...if you left your house and just pulled out of your driveway when you realize you forgot your mobile phone, would you go back and get it?

That problem didn't exist when I was a kid. Now my 11 year old cousin has an iPhone.

...although to be fair, I gave it to her.

[TOPEC]

we of course are the USERS

[Culture_Vulture]

what it means is the advantages and disadvantages of technology today and/or how significant or insignificant does the technology we have today impact us?
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typical philosophy of science paper topic :lol

[LiquidTurbo]

Sounds a lot like mental masturbation...

[melloman]

In the digital age we are 1000x more intimate with a person, but yet at the same time, we have never been more distant.

Agree 100%. My gf is on her Blackberry 90% of the day, and it just bothers me. I still had a brick phone from Sony Ericsson. Got it 5 years ago and it still holds a charge longer then her BB. =]

[flagella]

Technology in battery never really improved.

[melloman]

In laptops they sure have.. from a 2-cell lithium ion to a 6-cell.. lasts about 4x longer then the first ones...

[orange7]

so you had a class discussion and now the prof wants you to write a paper on it?

[Jsunu]

What is really interesting is how the digital age has influenced a new generation of kids.

We already see children being hardwired into the internet since they were toddlers. Cellphones and facebook is now the norm instead of a privilege. I think back when I was in elementary school, there was no facebook or cellphones that was required to be socially connected. Now kids need these things in order to be included in the digital sphere of their peers. Being connected to the internet is being extensions of themselves in a sense.

It will be interesting to see how this social digital context plays itself out in the next 10-15 years.

[m4k4v4li]

sounds like a homework question.
thats such a broad question, unless you're half retarded you should be able to figure it out

[JulyZerg]

Lol you guys, honestly it wasn't a essay/homework/project or something worth marks, unless you're taking summer classes, your semester is pretty much finished.

Thanks to the people that actually responded, since I was hoping to get a debate going. Oh well.

[vafanculo]

It's scary.

Pro's: everything is at your fingertips
Cons: people are distancing each other

I even deleted my iPhone FB app cause it was so easy to click on FB. If I want to log in now, I need to do it the "hard" way and go through a browser. I notice my fb activity has died down recently cause of it.

What bugs me the most tho, and I'm guilty of this too, is people that have their phones everywhere.

To follow up what was mentioned above, if I'm in the car and notice I left my license behind, I won't turn back. If it's my phone, good chance il bust a U.
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[124Y]

As technology improves, we have more ways of interacting with each other digitally. However, at the same time, technology is so intrusive in our lives that there are people who favour interaction through a digital medium than face-to-face.
It's more and more common for a group of friends sitting together to eat and all they do is play games or go on facebook on their iphones and the table is dead silent.

[dignatas]

ITT : OP failing people who are not answering his question

Guess I have to answer it. We are so far ahead in technology that magnets work

:troll:

[Culture_Vulture]

Your question honestly isn't anywhere specific enough to actually generate anything that would constitute as a debate; in fact, it's not even possible for people to take sides given the parameters of "who we are". Philosophers have a hard enough time answering that without the introduction of digital technology.

[Sid Vicious]

advantages: porn

[Nocardia]

I just went travelling around Iceland for a while and my buddy had his iphone with him. Everywhere we went that there was wifi, he was on it. It is nice to have at times to email family and friends but I think his experience was different than mine.

With his technology at his fingertips, you miss the human experience. We did the same things, saw the same things but we didn't talk to the same people. Because a lot of our downtown was in busy areas, I would talk with people whereas he played a game called angry birds (or something) or checked his fb.

Personally, I think the iphone/smartphones are one of the worst things to happen to society in recent times.

Thoughts?

[Culture_Vulture]

I just went travelling around Iceland for a while and my buddy had his iphone with him. Everywhere we went that there was wifi, he was on it. It is nice to have at times to email family and friends but I think his experience was different than mine.

With his technology at his fingertips, you miss the human experience. We did the same things, saw the same things but we didn't talk to the same people. Because a lot of our downtown was in busy areas, I would talk with people whereas he played a game called angry birds (or something) or checked his fb.

Personally, I think the iphone/smartphones are one of the worst things to happen to society in recent times.

Thoughts?
Disagree. At least not in the way you put it.

It's one thing that smartphones make people numb to the real world and the real world living experience, but another completely to say that they've degraded society because of that.

I've been using smartphones for a couple of years now, and I don't feel the constant urge to check my Facebook whenever I'm out. I'd doodle around on an iPhone app or browse the net on my phone once in a while when I'm sitting at school waiting for a class or something of the like, but that doesn't mean I'm missing out on any real action.
It really just comes down to people believing that the make-belief digital world simulates what they want in their every day lives. I mean, if your friend really put his mind to it, he could well have brought his laptop everywhere instead, and we would blame technology for making Facebook so popular.

[jack3d]

I'm an iHuman