Is technology turning us evil?

[Brendan]

Interesting article I found today about Gen Y's

Gen Ys blame technology for their foibles | NEWS.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24029798-5007146,00.html)

here is a quick excerpt from the article;

Young Aussies may come in for much criticism, but it seems that neither we, nor our parents, are ever really to blame for our actions.
Computer games made us lazy, television made us stupid and now websites are making us violent.


At least we're putting the blame where it really lies - technology is out to get us.

The tendency of older generations to assume the worst of new technology is an ancient and familiar dance. First they will dismiss it as serving no practical purpose.



So what do you think, do you really beleive that technology is changing the way we think, or do we just have more places to expose ourselves?

[justinsigns]

At first it was meant to make life easier for us, which to some degree it has.
Now it seems to rule lives from relying on email to playing multiplayer games like WoW or EQ.
I am certainly guilty of the latter.

People are saying the word lol in general conversation and handwriting in sms formats.

How were we or our parents to know what long term effect technology was to have on our lives?

I think it is evil only to those that dont have control over it, it is most certainly a necessary evil in business today.

However, I could be entirely wrong but just my view.

[Slade]

I don't know if technology is purely to blame.. there has always been some sort of violence in the world even before we came exposed and neautrilsed (sp?) to it from the media..

I think the media, police and parents are just looking for an excuse.

[JamesGG]

Hiya,

People, by their very design, are extremely good at two things;

Breeding, and, killing.

Better technologies simply allow us to find more effective and creative ways to do so.

Human nature being what it is, though, also likes to blame something or someone else for failings in immediate society. I don't read too much more into these types of articles. IMO, sociology is an art, not a science.

Cheers

James.