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Well the thing is. We're reliant because there's only so much a teacher knows or what to teach and has a certain time frame. It's a simpler and faster means to work out an answer or find out interesting facts etc... However most people who say we're too reliant are blind to the fact that the tests are growing harder, grade boundaries are being raised. The fact is if most adults were told to retake a normal GCSE maths or english test if they didn't use the internet, just books to revise they would most likely still fail.

There's being reliant and then there's using it to your advantage. If you can do something easier than something that takes twice as long you might as well do the easiest option. Not even kidding when I say that if I had no access to the internet I would 1.Do nothing on a daily basis or turn out to be social, drink alcohol, do drugs etc... 2.Have nobody to talk to. To some it creates laziness. To others it's a great way to meet people and learn what they know.
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we are definitely too dependent on computers just by using computers you can do the following things: cause extreme traffic cause some one to be arrested steal millions of dollars possibly kill some people destroy someones social life release some ones personal life stop pace makers cause world wide panic cause nuclear war and worst of all post fake tweets oh the humanity but hey its unlikely that some of this stuff will happen but the point is it could
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No. I would commit suicide without it, but I could still easily live my life. I am extremely healthy and go to college. What more could I need?
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Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
we are definitely too dependent on computers just by using computers you can do the following things: cause extreme traffic cause some one to be arrested steal millions of dollars possibly kill some people destroy someones social life release some ones personal life stop pace makers cause world wide panic cause nuclear war and worst of all post fake tweets oh the humanity but hey its unlikely that some of this stuff will happen but the point is it could

please learn punctuation, that was a pain on my eyes to read.
here, I'll address each thing you said separately.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
cause extreme traffic

Sure, you can DDOS someone, that's generally only if you have a botnet or whatever you want to use.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
cause some one to be arrested

uh, yeah. If someone's a criminal it's pretty helpful. In most cases, someone has done something illegal. Or it was a mistake and they're generally released because it's the internet and it's not hard to find stuff if you know how.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
steal millions of dollars possibly

how often do you actually hear about this. These schemes to steal money are usually really obvious to see, or they're absolutely brilliant and the person almost deserves the money for that brilliance.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
possibly kill some people

more people die everyday from other things, the amount of people who commit suicide or something from the internet is like, negligible almost when you look at the big picture.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
destroy someones social life

yeah, that's like the only good point you've made. but social lives aren't everything because you can just get new friends if your current friends are assholes.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
release some ones personal life

what, that makes no sense. If you post a picture on facebook or something, you are handing that over to the internet.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
stop pace makers

that only happens on t.v. nerd
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
cause world wide panic

not true, media outlets will inform you if obama was assassinated, not to cause panic, but to inform people. People just over-react to something that isn't attached to them and that causes wide-spread panic.
People actually once believed that autism was caused by vaccines because some idiot celebrities don't know how to read and used a paper that was later revoked that was published by a man who had his doctorate taken away.
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
cause nuclear war

what
Originally Posted by strudle206 View Post
and worst of all post fake tweets oh the humanity but hey its unlikely that some of this stuff will happen but the point is it could

oh no, someone is lying on the internet about who they are.

Most of these are extreme situations, and they don't even relate to being dependent on computers so I don't understand the relevance this has to the conversation.
like what point were you trying to make
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1. anything connected to the internet or any sort of wireless device can basically be exploited not just social media
2. i didn't say they where likely to happen i said they could happen
3. pace makers have been tampered with irl
4. this is the internet punctuation is optional
5. some of these where exaggerated like the panic one and nuclear war one
6. fake tweets as in hacking some ones account and posting something that's untrue this on was sarcastic a hand full of people have had scholarships taken away and some people where even expelled due to tweets
7. yes people die from other things but the point i was trying to make was you could kill someone like that
8. the point i was trying to make was how are dependency on the internet could harm us seriously
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I'd like to point out that we aren't talking about dependency on the internet, it's dependency on computers and technology in general.
As well, I know pacemakers have been tampered with, but those are extremely isolated cases.
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Originally Posted by Dscigs View Post
I'd like to point out that we aren't talking about dependency on the internet, it's dependency on computers and technology in general.

No, I don't think that's what's being talked about. You're not talking about 'technology in general'. Technology is a very encompassing term. Any tool made by men that makes a process/activity more efficient is defined as technology. Chalk is technology. A fork is technology. So is my underwear. Anything made by us that serves a purpose is technology.

Considering technology is a part of what's constantly enhancing and developing us as a civilisation, someone could make the case that we have been/are pretty dependent on it. But that's besides the point. This thread is about dependency on computers and some of the negative aspects of this dependency.
Are we too dependent on computers?

This is my opinion. I believe that computers help us connect to the world by making it convenient to gain endless knowledge and information. I don't believe we are too dependent. We lived without computers before. Just go back a generation or two, maybe three and you will see. Though now days, knowledge is power and convenience is the key. Like the saying goes, "Work smarter, not harder."
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Originally Posted by -ian- View Post
Are we too dependent on computers?

This is my opinion. I believe that computers help us connect to the world by making it convenient to gain endless knowledge and information. I don't believe we are too dependent. We lived without computers before. Just go back a generation or two, maybe three and you will see. Though now days, knowledge is power and convenience is the key. Like the saying goes, "Work smarter, not harder."

The question is not whether people are capable of living without computers, but whether we are dependent on them. We are dependent on them because removing all computers from this world would mean a rapid downfall of society. This is not just PCs we're talking about: servers, banks and basically the whole economy, cars, public transport, your household appliances, military, police, justice, hospitals & other health institutes all greatly depend on computers. They would literally cease to function were computers to disappear.
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