How does technology affects culture?

Question

How does technology affects culture?

Answer 1

it helps us to make things easier.

Answer 2

I think that technology helps and hurts our culture. It helps our culture because we are able to expand our intrests by looking at things on line, we have access to information quicker than we use to.

I mainly think that lots of technology hurts our culture. We do not strive to accomplish as much. We spend too much time inside obsessing over what is on t.v, the internet, what some celebrity is doing. We are not challenging ourselves academically or mentally. Most people dont spend time with friends and family because they are more worried about what  they are missing on t.v. In fact I think that they are missing more by watching t.v.

Answer 3

It makes it easier for lesser known Presidential Candidates like Ron Paul to compete with those with more money.

I discovered him on YouTube.

It also lets people buy books without driving to a store on Amazon.

People communicate with phones and email more and less with in-person face-to-face communication.

Answer 4

Here is a good link to answer that question.  It has a well thought out and informative answer.

edit: thanks :)

Answer 5

Perhaps the question should be culture on technology?

As an autistic man I have used my keen "golden retriever type hearing" to trouble shoot cars for years. I have been able to fix cars most mechanics would run from. Couple my autism gift with our deep picture based thought process that has never been in a book before and you get all kinds of human innovation. The computer was an autistic invention by our Alan Turing (1912-1954) .

I have named my 70% efficient Green car motor The Turing Motor in his honor. The Turning Motor is a very green motor and based on the facts Ford and other pioneers in cars never knew of their own motors. If Henry Ford could have heard the noise his motor made he would gone back and done something else! -just like I did. Most people need a decibel meter to hear what we hear.   Rich Shull

Answer 6

it's makes us signficantly lazier and gives us more time to develop mental illnesses,ponder our navels, develop pointless academic debates and argue among one another instead of living.

Things also become so easy that our endurance to mishaps or bumps is low e.g road rage,queues etc.

As Internet use grows, Americans report they spend less time with friends and family, shopping in stores or watching television, and more time working for their employers at home -- without cutting back their hours in the office.

"the more hours people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings,"

"Microwave ovens were a clever idea, but their inventor could hardly have realized that their effect would ultimately be to take the preparation of food out of the home and into the, increasingly automated, factory; to alter the habits of our homes, making the dining table outmoded for many, as each member of the family individually heats up his or her own meal"

fifty points for the wonders of western civilization!

Answer 7

It allows us to have an abundant food supply, (pickers, combines, irrigation, automatic milkers, etc) our food supply to be clean and safe, (pasteurization, etc) to see parts of the world that many generations before us could never see, (tv, movies, airplanes, trains, cars, etc) to speak to people across oceans as though they're next to us, (instant messaging with video, for example) to perform tasks that might otherwise be impossible, (underwater welding, for example) it's made us healthier, live longer and diagnose disease more efficiently, (medical equipment, analysis equipment) to name a very few benefits.

Oh the downside, it's also contributed pollution into our environment more efficiently, automation breeds out individuality of creation, it's been said it "dehumanizes" us by preventing face-to-face interaction, among many other things.

As a start...

EDIT: great link gwlech!

Answer 8

I think that you have it backward it is culture that drives technology. To us today it only seems that tech is driving culture because the tech is changing so fast.