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Title: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: Natasha on January 27, 2008, 03:30:13 AM
in my opinion, no. because there never will be a stop to technological improvement.
what's your opinion? and why?
Title: Re: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: lisagurl on January 27, 2008, 09:04:30 AM
Quotetechnological improvement

In some ways that is an oxymoron.
Title: Re: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: tekla on January 27, 2008, 12:32:48 PM
Such ends have been predicted before, never to much success.  Often right at the onset of a whole new revolution.  Some guy in the late 1950s predicted "The end of ideology" in America.  Then the sixties and everything after happened.  The "end of science" was talked about in the 1880/1890s - then the 20th Century happened.  Back in the late 1980/1990s people were talking about "The End of History" and that didn't seem to pan out either.

As to the idea that progress, particularly of the technological kind, is always "forward" that's a different issue.
Title: Re: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: Audrey on January 27, 2008, 01:22:55 PM
yeah in 2012 when the world ends.    :D

Audrey
Title: Re: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: Purple Pimp on January 27, 2008, 05:28:13 PM
I'm a bit of a Marxist, but no, I don't think anything can actually "end."

Lia
Title: Re: do you think there will be an end to technological progress?
Post by: Sarah on January 27, 2008, 10:17:35 PM
Probably not.
Because things are always changing. Never stopping, always moving.
That would seem to apply to technology as well.
Sara