does technology make us more intelligent?

[Kamikaze]

i don't believe so, if anything i think we have become lazy and stupid. we have become too dependent on technology to do our work for us, i.e. calculators, spell checking, pda's...etc
we have stopped using our brains and given the job to machines.

[N[U]TS]

Originally Posted by Kamikaze

i don't believe so, if anything i think we have become lazy and stupid. we have become too dependent on technology to do our work for us, i.e. calculators, spell checking, pda's...etc
we have stopped using our brains and given the job to machines.

yes, in today's society, everything revolvs around convienence(sp?) everyone wants their jobs easier and less time consuming. The only thing i dont see eye to eye with you kamikaze is that we are stupid...we first had to become smart to creat such things but i guess you could say those who do use the machines are "stupid". I remember when i was still in elementry school having to do everything the long way and the year after they teach us a short cut with a calculator...get kinda pissed since they wasted my time teaching me some method that i would probably never use since yes i am the lazy type when it comes to math. anyways the point i am trying to make here is some people in my math cant even do long division. It is a sad fact. just think if a calculator was never invented...jeez i would really hate math. :corn

[aphextwin]

for some yes, for most no....

[Magikarp]

This is difficult to say. There are a lot of factors involved. I guess you might say that it has had a polarization effect. You have the people who make the technology (MacMan) and the people who use it (glowpole).

Still, I think we have a higher amount of decently intelligent people than we've ever had in the history of humanity. This can also be attributed to the size of our population. Back in the late 1800's, and the early to middle 1900's, you mostly had the "big business" guys, and the factory workers. Today, we have public education and more white collar workers.

So no, not really.

[l33t 0n3]

What you don't see is that the ability to be able to make machines to do things for us is a sign that we have become more intelligent. Everything has definately become more convenient, but I wouldn't say that being able to remember dates or multiplying in your head makes you smarter at all. If anything, it just makes you less efficient when doing things, and thus buying a calculator or whatnot becomes the better choice...

[The Soviet]

Originally Posted by l33t 0n3

What you don't see is that the ability to be able to make machines to do things for us is a sign that we have become more intelligent. Everything has definately become more convenient, but I wouldn't say that being able to remember dates or multiplying in your head makes you smarter at all. If anything, it just makes you less efficient when doing things, and thus buying a calculator or whatnot becomes the better choice...

I would have to agree with your diagnosis of this situation. Technology does make some people lazier. That's a fact. You must put into consideration however that technology can greater increase our effectiveness in today's society. Think of medicine without technology? We need the highly powered microscopes to be able to view the micro-organisms that create viruses/disease.

[aphextwin]

the only ppl that benefits from the technology is the ppl who creates it, and the ppl who uses it will end up being fat

[VBadGirl]

no i don't agree. technology is not all about convenience nor luxury its about easing some jobs. you only think only one sided. but lets think a little back at the 9/11 event. to minimize the risk of deaths among the fire fighters, the teams have sent robots to search for survivors, so you cannot say technology is bad.

also its not about becoming lazy or fat or w.e. Through out the human kind history all great discoveries, minds, inventions.. etc were done in times where food wasn't the biggest concern. ppl were having a flourishing life and when they could take their mind off the daily worries they have becomed creative.

Also worlds population is dramatically expanding and also growing, technology also means increased productivity which leads to satisfying those ppl needs of products.

Go back in time and remember how hard was to have only manual labor, how slow, how demanding, how tiring that work was. Technology was a great step ahead toward a good life.

Just my 2 cents in .

[Gray Claw]

True, machines have made us lazy slobs. But as someone stated, we first had to get intelligent to make the machines. In a way, we worked for this.

And what about mining equipment, etc?

[OMGLOLWTFPWN]

Without our calculators and computers we would be doing multiplication and division in math class instead of algebra and geometry. Our technology allows us to have machines do some things for us while we can do more important things by ourselves. At least that's how it should work...

[Wing Zero]

Originally Posted by TreeFrog123

Without our calculators and computers we would be doing multiplication and division in math class instead of algebra and geometry. Our technology allows us to have machines do some things for us while we can do more important things by ourselves. At least that's how it should work...

that is how it should work,
but people are suign it so they never have to leave their house, today we can order food online :/

[Tupac Amaru Shakur]

Originally Posted by Wing Zero

that is how it should work,
but people are suign it so they never have to leave their house, today we can order food online :/

Are you serious!?!!??!??! Thats crazy.

Im not sure what you are asking kamikazy, are you asking if the technology we have adds on to our intelligence?? if so it doesnt. We created a machine it doesnt change us in any way.

Or are you asking if the technology we made express that we are inteligent? It doesnt do that either. We are more intelligent then the machines we create becase well we created them! Can a machine create life like we can? no can a machine remember what it did 10 years ago 20 50? no. we are intelligent and can create machines cant so no it doesnt. It takes a great amount of intelligence to create machines, an intelligence we have made ourselves and developed ourselves.

[AvalonX]

I reckon technology just expands human performance, kind of like MS Word does when you're designing a layout. Intelligence is a person's metal capabilities (mostly include able to: reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language), which doesn’t really encompass technology. The more technology, the more 'fuel' you have to solve solutions. if that makes sense