Will Technology ( Archived) (23)

As in the internet, cell phones and any future communication devices cause the human race to lose personal contact.

I ask because I read in a magazine today that in 50 years from now that will happen.

Yes, but I'm ole fashioned and already feel that way about emails in general.

I miss the days of receiving good ole handwritten letters and pretty cards. I still enjoy receiving mail in the ole "snail mail box."

I still enjoy telephone calls where you can hear an actual voice, tone and the warmth of someone's soul coming over the phone lines.

Peaches

I think its very possible, Dan. Don't forget there is also telephone conferencing, video conferencing and an increase in working from home.

Whilst working from home may be more beneficial to the environment in many respects, our face-to-face inter-action with others will clearly dimish, yes.

I have often wondered if we are going to actually lose the use of our legs as well. Lying in bed, get up, sit in a car going to work, sit at a computer, come home and sit on the sofa watching TV or sit at a computer... go to bed and lie down...!! Maybe, just for when the need arises, we'll all be fitted with castors?? Hey, would save a fortune in socks though, yeah??

I totally agree with you there.

Thank you

I don´t think that it could happen that we totally lost the personal contact.

Communication has chanced since the human race exist. From word, to pictures, to letter, to phone, etc.
I think it was in every time when some of this had happened a radical change.
What did the ppl think as the first phone comes out or the first railroad was opened? I think this has ppl also scared.
Internet and future communication can also bring people together. People who would never meet in life if we haven´t Internet. ( Best example the cs together)
And I think we are all still human. For all the technical and digital world we need the personal contact. We work with the computer, we work with phones, faxes etc. But after this we need party, out going, travel, enjoy nature, etc. And no software or homepage can replace us this. JMO

THAT THOUGHT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES

NO HUMAN CONTACT

I would prefer person to person communication,but where I live and work, all the people at my income level talk about is, SPORTS,DRINKING,and if I'm lucky, local news and weather. Oh yea...and WORK. For me, the internet is a God-send,it's the only exposure to intelligent conversation I have.