From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 05:32:21 BST
Ok, lets look at his thing from a different point of view.
Ever had a rough illness, a night spent hunched over the toilet, or being
wheeled in an emergency room. What you would give just to feel normal
again. Just normal. not fabulous, not a million dollar, just to be.
Life, health and time are pretty much it. Then you build on that with
quality.
Yes it's wonderful that we are chatting back and forth, exchanging ideas,
thinking, wondering, stopping and saying " Haven't thought of that
before", or "he or she may be right (not Platt)" but how nice it would be
to be in the same room, face to face for a few hours every couple of
months.
One of the strong movements taking shape now is called "slow food
movement", a simple premise of enjoying the task of growing, cooking and
eating simple wholesome foods. Making the experience a social one with
family and friends.
No I don't think calligraphy clubs are going to spring out all over
campuses in the near future.
Khaled
[Erin]
> It's not just the title (the failure of
> technology..the rise of Indian culture or something
> like that) but some of the things said didn't give me
> that impression. Khaled's question was about the
> quality of life being improved or not. Yes technology
> to me has improved the quality of life.....but there
> is a paradox of progress. Technology gives us much
> time-saving devices (e.g. washing machines) but then
> we seem to be busy as ever. I think that it has
> increased quality of life because although as busy as
> we are now we have more choices of how to spend our
> time.
> Technology also gives us devices that suck up time
> like computers where people spend tons of time in
> discussion groups but its the person's choice to spend
> their time that way. I would rather be surfing than
> washing clothes by hand right now.
> So you want to say the environment has changed but
> human hands haven't changed very much?.....don't
> know...in some ways I agree with that
> sentiment..people are people but that isn't really the
> sentiment I got from the posts I commented on...also
> think there might be a little underestimation of the
> role of environment there.
> I think we are changing...I heard some statistic a
> long time ago but can't remember the exact numbers of
> how much information a modern person comes across vs.
> somebody from the past. The difference was
> incredible... I actually have mixed feelings about
> that though....sometimes there just seems to be an
> information overload in modern times, but maybe that
> should just be approached as more choices too?
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