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do you think there will be an end to technological progress?

Started by Natasha, January 27, 2008, 03:30:13 AM

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Natasha

in my opinion, no. because there never will be a stop to technological improvement.
what's your opinion? and why?
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lisagurl

Quotetechnological improvement

In some ways that is an oxymoron.
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tekla

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.
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Audrey

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Purple Pimp

I'm a bit of a Marxist, but no, I don't think anything can actually "end."

Lia
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you would do. -- Epictetus
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Sarah

Probably not.
Because things are always changing. Never stopping, always moving.
That would seem to apply to technology as well.
Sara
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