What is the purpose of technical progress?

tuxdev · 07-01-2014, 07:01 PM

Statistics like that 1 in 44 vs. 1 in 2 really point out how good we've gotten at not dying, not that we're at any more risk at getting cancer in any particular moment in time. Cancer is what you die from when you manage to not die from anything else.

273 · 07-01-2014, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by tuxdev

Statistics like that 1 in 44 vs. 1 in 2 really point out how good we've gotten at not dying, not that we're at any more risk at getting cancer in any particular moment in time. Cancer is what you die from when you manage to not die from anything else.

I'm afraid that in saying that you are one of "them" and so are responsible for the mind-altering vapour trails.

moxieman99 · 07-02-2014, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Alex

Has anyone here asked himself: what is the purpose of technical progress performed by humankind? Any action has to have a goal, right? What about "technical progress"?

Efficiency. Technical progress allows more efficient use of resources, thereby creating more of a particular end product, lowering its price and thereby increasing demand and use. Makes life easier for us. Whether that is ultimately good for a particular person is up to them. Freedom from want, for example, allows time to develop spiritual philosophies (religions). Whether that is a good thing is up to each of us to decide.