Writer's Block: Luddites unite!

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This is one of the more inane QotD I've seen. Civilization and technology are what make us capable of what we are today. Technology allows us to live longer,healthier lives with less effort and danger than at any other time in humanity's existence. We have eradicated diseases which used to be the scourges of the Earth, we have built cities that scrape the clouds and landed on the Moon, we now send our eyes and ears across the entire solar system -- and we do so without risking a single human being.

I am alive today -- multiple times over -- because of high technology. I live a better life now than I did 30 years ago, because technology continues to advance. Turn away from technology? That would be the destruction of mankind, not its betterment.

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[isleburroughs.livejournal.com]

I like improved technology. I stayed in Italy in 1983 for six weeks, studying art, and the water pressure was weak. The shower sprayed all over the place and we had to share the bathroom with the whole floor. That's pensione pendini in Florence. It may be higher tech now. Well, they were trying to put 20th century plumbing in thousands of years old buildings.
Back then the fuel emissions from the cars and motor bikes was horrendous. I couldn't find a sushi restaurant anywhere. I'm sure there must be some by now. The things I missed the most were my hot shower, my sushi and my car. I felt like I'd stepped back in time.