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Oh yeah that God damn dirty look, like I had cursed her out or something...
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Da_bang80
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She should be glad it wasn't me she was giving that dirty look to. I probably would have cursed her out.
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Daniel Butler
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I'm noticing again that people in this thread are talking about younger people liking tech as if it were only entertainment. This isn't about becoming savages if we didn't have our MTV. I hate MTV. But without computers and satellite communications and TV capability, we wouldn't be able to *sustain* ourselves. No airplanes, no traffic lights, no electricity since they're controlled by computers, no water or fuel since fuel is pumped electrically, so pretty soon no refrigerators or meat packing plants or even harvesting tractors, so no food in anyplace but the most rural areas, and billions upon billions of people would die, except in the third world where millions already die from disease.
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Shik
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We sustained ourselves quite well in the 50s.
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This whole debate seems to be predicated on the idea of some "disaster" that would somehow "break all technology". Exactly what would that be?
I mean, as long as we're making that sort of speculation, how about a disaster that destroys all plants? We need those to live. Or a disaster that destroys all oxygen? That one would take us out even quicker.
It just seems like we're playing "what if?" ad absurdum here. Sure, if all technology suddenly disappeared, a lot of people would die. Same thing if the sun blows up. But it's not very likely, so I'm not going to worry about it.
(Also, if all that disappear-able technology weren't here in the first place, a lot of people would already have died. Just take a look at our ongoing medical-history-of-half-the-people-at-Flare thread for details.)
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Daniel Butler
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Shik: We didn't sustain 6 billion *people* in the 50's. Nor could you affordably get from New York to Hong Kong in less than a day. Not to mention get a car, hotel room, and restaurant lined up six weeks in advance of your trip. So at least we couldn't sustain our society, which I happen to like. It's full of people I can laugh at.
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Shik
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You also didn't HAVE to get a car, room, & restaurant lined up 6 weeks in advance, or get to Hong Kong in a day. We still don't; the self-impositions just make it seem like we do.
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