Are Young People Too Dependent on Technology?

When i say young im talking 1980s on...im sure there are older people who still depend on technology like cell phones, computers etc but they didnt always have it so they can easily transform back

What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

cybrcatter

What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

cybrcatter

It's fine to use the tools to your disposal but it's a bad thing to get to involved, if we get way to into all this tech we might suddenly find ourselves without it one day and then what? What would we do since we've lived off of all these instruments what would we do in a world without them? I think for the most part we are, sadly. I think our generation would probably get our heads shoved up our arse the minute we lose our precious tech because we're too, dependent. We don't know how easy we have it...and ya never know when that easieness will one day leave us.

What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

cybrcatter

Utilizing the latest technology to its fullest potential doesn't necessarily suggest a dependency, but rather an adaptability to emerging innovation.

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What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

cee1gee

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What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

cybrcatter

We are extremely dependant of it, which is bad and irreversible.

I think they are obsessed with cell phones, especially when driving.

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What classifies as dependent?

Why would you not utilize the tools at your disposal?

Goyoshi12

It's fine to use the tools to your disposal but it's a bad thing to get to involved, if we get way to into all this tech we might suddenly find ourselves without it one day and then what? What would we do since we've lived off of all these instruments what would we do in a world without them? I think for the most part we are, sadly. I think our generation would probably get our heads shoved up our arse the minute we lose our precious tech because we're too, dependent. We don't know how easy we have it...and ya never know when that easieness will one day leave us.

Absolutely.

Someone mentioned recently that if we had an apocolyptic event, in the resulting aftermath anyone born after 1990 would have no idea what to do with themselves and be completely incapable of fending for themselves.DJ_Lae

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"]Absolutely.

Someone mentioned recently that if we had an apocolyptic event, in the resulting aftermath anyone born after 1990 would have no idea what to do with themselves and be completely incapable of fending for themselves.cybrcatter

Absolutely. Someone mentioned recently that if we had an apocolyptic event, in the resulting aftermath anyone born after 1990 would have no idea what to do with themselves and be completely incapable of fending for themselves.DJ_Lae

Kill all suns uv b@#$%es. Those are my ideas.

i use all my technology because I can not because I feel the need to

people always use new tools that they have at their disposal. The only difference is that now they have become mainly digital tools.

Didn't they say that about electricity?

Didn't they say that about electricity?

coolbeans90

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[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"]Absolutely.

Someone mentioned recently that if we had an apocolyptic event, in the resulting aftermath anyone born after 1990 would have no idea what to do with themselves and be completely incapable of fending for themselves.cee1gee

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

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[QUOTE="cybrcatter"] 80's baby reporting in.

KamuiFei

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

80s have an advantage over 90s ofcourse...we grew up without internet and actually had to go to our friends house and knock on the door instead of using a cell phone to go hang out, i believe we are more street smart...i would say the best of both worlds the 80s got to seecee1gee

I think it is the other way round, the elderly are far to depentant on tech, electric wheelchairs, pace makers, dialysis machines etc. spolt if you ask me.

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[QUOTE="cybrcatter"] 80's baby reporting in.

KamuiFei

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

What makes you think kids born in the 90s just sat around on the internet all day? I can't remember using the internet much until I got into middle school (around 2004-2005)... I went and knocked on the door of my friends house, and went outside, and now that you mention it I still do. I was certainly more active than my older brother who grew up in the 80s, I can tell you that much...

[QUOTE="cee1gee"]80s have an advantage over 90s ofcourse...we grew up without internet and actually had to go to our friends house and knock on the door instead of using a cell phone to go hang out, i believe we are more street smart...i would say the best of both worlds the 80s got to seetofu-lion91

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[QUOTE="cee1gee"] 80s have an advantage over 90s ofcourse...we grew up without internet and actually had to go to our friends house and knock on the door instead of using a cell phone to go hang out, i believe we are more street smart...i would say the best of both worlds the 80s got to see

lensflare15

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

What makes you think kids born in the 90s just sat around on the internet all day? I can't remember using the internet much until I got into middle school (around 2004-2005)... I went and knocked on the door of my friends house, and went outside, and now that you mention it I still do. I was certainly more active than my older brother who grew up in the 80s, I can tell you that much...

Yes, absolutely, but how couldn't they be? if something came along that made using technology life threatening to our species, it would be a hard transition to make and we might not survive, but I suspect few of us, who have trained in many ways, would go on to propagate the species.

I would feel no sympathy for seeing the destruction of those that relied to heavily on technology to save them.

I personally think that in some aspects that certain types of technology have made their way from "convience" into "total dependence". So yes.

yes. i'm dependent upon technology to grow my food.. i'm dependent upon technology to provide clean water for me. i'm dependent upon technology to aid me when i'm sick or injured and i'm pretty sure you are toocomp_atkins

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"]yes. i'm dependent upon technology to grow my food.. i'm dependent upon technology to provide clean water for me. i'm dependent upon technology to aid me when i'm sick or injured and i'm pretty sure you are tooUniverseIX

[QUOTE="UniverseIX"][QUOTE="comp_atkins"]yes. i'm dependent upon technology to grow my food.. i'm dependent upon technology to provide clean water for me. i'm dependent upon technology to aid me when i'm sick or injured and i'm pretty sure you are toocomp_atkins

[QUOTE="comp_atkins"][QUOTE="UniverseIX"] If technology can be wielded well, for positive results, it certainly can be misused, for negative ones as well. People may think what they are doing is good, but that does not mean that it is.UniverseIX

The obvious answer is yes. But not just young people.

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[QUOTE="cee1gee"] 80s have an advantage over 90s ofcourse...we grew up without internet and actually had to go to our friends house and knock on the door instead of using a cell phone to go hang out, i believe we are more street smart...i would say the best of both worlds the 80s got to see

lensflare15

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

What makes you think kids born in the 90s just sat around on the internet all day? I can't remember using the internet much until I got into middle school (around 2004-2005)... I went and knocked on the door of my friends house, and went outside, and now that you mention it I still do. I was certainly more active than my older brother who grew up in the 80s, I can tell you that much...

The world is dependant on technology.

Just noticed the two posts above me. What timing.

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[QUOTE="cee1gee"] 80s have an advantage over 90s ofcourse...we grew up without internet and actually had to go to our friends house and knock on the door instead of using a cell phone to go hang out, i believe we are more street smart...i would say the best of both worlds the 80s got to see

thegerg

I agree with this. Being an 80s baby myself, I remember having to walk or ride a bike to a friends house, just to see if he was home. If the technology we use now vanished, I think our nostaligia will kick in to help us cope. The 80s kids are the best "modern world" generation imo. We know about technology better than older generations, while still leading the younger gen. And we would cope better if we had to go back to "older ways".

Seriously, though, our ever-expanding technological advancement is not evidence of an inability to cope, but rather evidence of our amazing capacity to adapt to new environments. We're working with the same hardware that humans were working with 20,000 years ago. One's ability to adapt is hardly dependant on whether or not they used cellphone technoloty to reach friends or doorbell technology to reach friends.

Adaption and the ability to cope are two different things, I agree. But what we're saying here is younger generations (90s and onward) grew up with technology aiding them to learn, and they've been exposed very early on in their life the convenience of things like cellphones and the internet. We had telephone booths and a handful of quarters to reach people. I haven't been fully exposed to the internet until the end of middle school, before that we had the first IBM DoS and Apple Macintosh with Number Munchers and Oregon Trail. Anyone remember the old 3 1/2 floppy? You would if you were born in the 80s :P

And perhaps I might be dependent on technology, but I assure you if it ever vanished, I would last hundred times longer than the teenagers and people in their early 20's of this gen.

And btw, people that existed before the wheel are probably dead by now. Just a hunch. ;)