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Ask HN: What tech has made us better?
1 point by ericlamb89 on Dec 17, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Advancements in technology continue to make our lives better. What advancements have actually made us better people? I know "better" is subjective, but I'm thinking along the lines of more honest, more empathetic, more kind, generally better behaved, etc. Definitely open to interpretation - but interested to hear what people think.


I don't think it has made us better humans, it has made us weaker humans in the biological and physical sense.

I don't need a powered toggle to roll down the windows in a car, but technology assumed I did, and it's little things like that, which make us weaker and lesser than our primitive counterparts.

The most primitive self sufficient savage is superior to the technological cube dweller.




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