Profile for dave enriquez - coexisting with technology

dave enriquez is a 25.48 year old boy, has been a member since March 11, 2007, has scored 593 submissions, giving an average score of 0.24.

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Mar 12 '07 by dave enriquez

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coexisting with technology

do people think we will be taken over or consumed by techonology??? do you think we will lose our essence? I wonder how much longer we will not live a reciprocal life with our world.

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 10:43pm

It really depends on when you draw the line of being consumed. If you want to draw a super-fine literal line like - Are the robots going to rebel and kill us all? - I'll have to go with no. But by many definitions, someone could pretty well argue we've already been "taken over" by technology. Hard to say. That's my cop-out answer.

kidaro on Mar 12 '07 at 10:57pm

Define technology, essence and reciprocal life, please.

dave enriquez on Mar 12 '07 at 11:00pm

taking from the land and giving back, eating and growing food.
that one example

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 11:44pm

We don't live a reciprocal life with our world as it is. We take resources from the planet and return pollution and destruction, but the planet as a whole is incredibly difficult to harm. Rocks with diameters of miles across have hit the Earth, darkening its skies and burning its surface, and it came back. Whatever we do to it, the world will survive and recover. The question is, will it be a world in which we can or will want to survive? Nobody knows that - I think it depends on us being able to either control our populations or develop the technology to not rely on the planet - basically to live and grow food either in space or on another planet. And that's a LONG way off.

olie! on Mar 12 '07 at 11:45pm

I think we are already in the irreversible process of killing ourselves partly due to technology, but that is just me.

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 11:46pm

I really don't think its irreversible at this point. We're really, really smart. Mostly we do stupid things with it, but we have immense abilities to fix the problems we cause - its just a question of whether we want to.

olie! on Mar 12 '07 at 11:47pm

Yeah, but the majority of us DON'T want to. Because you said it yourself, as a group humans are STUPID.

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 11:50pm

What I said is that humans as a group do stupid things. Compared to anything else we know about, we're outstandingly smart. I don't disagree with you in general - we're probably fucked - but we are clever.

coolchika on Mar 12 '07 at 11:51pm

kinda

laylasmum on Mar 12 '07 at 11:52pm

did you run and eat or were u just trying to escape from me? :( ian.

laylasmum on Mar 12 '07 at 11:53pm

not trying to get in on this deep conversation though.. sorry

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 11:53pm

I ate and then I ran. Now I am sweaty but back. No frown.

kidaro on Mar 12 '07 at 11:55pm

I tried to write something thoughtful but it fizzled.

I'll just say no and no. Historically, everything gets better.

ianrose on Mar 12 '07 at 11:56pm

Still at work, Kris?

laylasmum on Mar 13 '07 at 12:23am

yeah day is ok now... but i reckon technologhy is definately evil i feel so yukky after sitting in front of a puter all day. The electro-magnetic energy the screen is ommitting is draining all my happy vibes :(

dave enriquez on Mar 13 '07 at 4:18pm

we are doomed, global warming will be our demise, ha
i might be to cynical

dave enriquez on Mar 13 '07 at 4:18pm

i sit infront of two computers all day

laylasmum on Mar 13 '07 at 4:21pm

honestly does it make you feel horrible? im not often in front of one and i was all day at work (blogging, not working tee hee) n then i did for a while when i came home n i felt horrible when i went to bed! i dont know how you do it!

shirtflirt on Mar 13 '07 at 4:22pm

hey me too!

we are consumed by/with technology right now. but, i'd like to think that all things return to their beginnings; a full circle kinda thing.
we've been consuming more than producing for some time now and when the earth's had enough, it'll snap back

shirtflirt on Mar 13 '07 at 4:23pm

12 hours a day for me.

meditation helps

lemonalle on Mar 13 '07 at 4:23pm

nanocomputers are gonna eat us all!

ekaj47 on Mar 13 '07 at 4:23pm

i dont care how it happens just as long as i'm around to see it all end i'll be happy

shirtflirt on Mar 13 '07 at 4:27pm

this "inevitable ending" feeling has been around for awhile now.
ain't happening anytime soon

laylasmum on Mar 13 '07 at 4:29pm

well my kinesiologist friend reckons we are all heading for the 6th dimension where there will be no need for politicians, enough food for all and we can read minds.. hmmmm nice dream or something to look forward to...

shirtflirt on Mar 13 '07 at 4:30pm

mind reading's been around for a long time.
monk's have learned how to live without food. however, they rely on sunlight.

ekaj47 on Mar 13 '07 at 4:32pm

well i'm going to be mighty angry and disapointed when i die, and thats a shame - i wanna see the fire, i wanna see the rage, chaos and disaster full scale before i croak

i'll just have to wait for the next life and cross my fingers

dave enriquez on Mar 13 '07 at 4:43pm

id like to believe in an afterlife, its an optimistic way of living

dave enriquez on Mar 13 '07 at 4:44pm

there is sopouse to be a nano parasite that will eat away sickness, but unfortunatley it ends up eating everything, its some sort of a nano end of the world theory. its intention maybe was to eat up the oil from oil spills in the water. its wierd

shirtflirt on Mar 13 '07 at 4:48pm

from the globe on down to invisible parasites, we're all making a living off something else.
what happens when there's nothing else?
...stay tuned

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