Is technology killing our gut instincts and intuition?

[jvo]

yes...

 

[jloen]

I'm not too concerned about technology in the sense of using a tool. That's just fine.

But I'm concerned about social media becoming the de facto method of communication. I only recently found out that our family (spread across the USA) uses Facebook to plan holidays, parties, weddings, graduations, just about everything. And if you, like me, chose not to use Facebook, well then you are almost completely excluded. You just hear about things afterwards, or not...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I'm not too concerned about technology in the sense of using a tool. That's just fine.

But I'm concerned about social media becoming the de facto method of communication. I only recently found out that our family (spread across the USA) uses Facebook to plan holidays, parties, weddings, graduations, just about everything. And if you, like me, chose not to use Facebook, well then you are almost completely excluded. You just hear about things afterwards, or not...

I too will not use FaceBook. I do not care about those who ignore me. If I want to talk to someone I either pick up the telephone, go over to see them or email them. If they do not contact me, I have no need to contact them.

 

[blockend]

The technological knowledge base is held among ever fewer individuals. We have open access to media over which we have zero control. At the moment the proprietors are playing nice, but they don't have to, and they may decide to take everyone's toys away, or charge them highly to use them.

 

[LAG]

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[NJH]

Social media is certainly killing useful political debate. Forums that allow that sort of thing better but many just prefer to be angry all the time on facebook or twitter.

From my working life I think the trend towards plug and play sub-systems and components has been very negative in some ways. Its just got far too easy for people who don't really understand what they are doing to build computer based systems (which everything is these days), whole companies and areas of industry making frankly dangerous progress because almost anyone can plug stuff together and hack some code to make it do useful things then hey presto products!

 

[NJH]

Technology is not a tool anymore. It became a religion a long time ago.

It most certainly is a tool. Its the tool at the heart of our entire Capitalist system. It almost ground to a halt a little way back then people realised they could grow some new money by transforming areas of the economy onto alternative platforms (social media for example). No real progress made IMHO but new ways of making money keeps the whole game going.

 

[LAG]

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[jtk]

Technology brings you this important woman:

 

[E. von Hoegh]

I think technology is really cool. Our lives at times are dependent on it. However, I have a feeling that technology is killing our gut instincts and intuition. We have digital cameras that give you instant feedback of your image along with a histogram, GPS units that give you pin point accuracy of your location. New technology is killing old skills that people relied on daily. For example, when my wife first met and I cooked her rice for our dinner, she asked "How could you cook rice without a rice cooker". I asked her how did folks cooked their rice before the rice cooker was invented. Millennials has lost people skills from being on their smart phones all the time. I think even the medical profession with all the high tech test have killed gut instincts. A lot of doctors have to back up their guesses with a test. So what's your take on the advancement of technology?

I cannot read eight pages of "the price is right' responses.
But we were doomed by the mid 1960s, it's just playing out. Any further discussion is pointless, why not start a thread about "Will the sun rise tomorrow?"All the sheeple, droolers, knuckledraggers, and congenital idiots want shiny things, sports on TV, and government that tells them what they want to hear. Reap the whirlwind, baby.

 

[removed account4]

to get back to the OP
yes, it has everyting to do with technology
none of us are hunter gatherers anymore
we live past 35 and don't have to have any sort of intuition to survive so starting about
when civilization started being in the fertile crescent we've been on a slow
slope of losing it. sure someone can have intuition, they can read people,
they can have an understanding of other people, or somehow mastermind
and take advantage of time and people and place .. humans are more followers
than leaders anyways . path of least resistance, easily manipulated.
i mean look at the 519 letters or portugese lottery letter scams people acutally fall for that stuff
i mean rachel for credit card services has been calling me from her boiler room for 18 years

 

[faberryman]

Is technology killing our gut instincts and intuition?

No. We continue to rely on them as we always have. The sky is not falling.

 

[jtk]

Tech kills gut instincts? Tech like photography itself?

http://media.artic.edu/stieglitz/autochrome/ Stieglitz shoots color.

The earlier B&W woman is Alfred Stieglitz'z muse and lifelong wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. She was remarkable in her own right. Google her for some photos Photrio might restrict.

Here's Edward Steichen's 1902 self portrait. I think his technology responded to his "gut instincts"

 

[Peter Schrager]

Not sure but everyone here is using it to communicate on this,forum..
Take the good
Take the bad
Use it don't let it use you

 

[slackercrurster]

OP, I prefer manual digital like I had in my film cams. Only manual small footprint option is Leica, which is overpriced and can have reliability issues as their corroded sensors debacle. I like instant review, on the fly ISO and that is about it. Manual for the rest.

 

[jim10219]

We seem to have this idea that our youth should be spent learning and our adulthood should be spent being productive. The truth is, we have to keep learning all through our lives in order to remain productive. Learning gets harder the older you get, and that’s why you have to continually put more effort into it. You have to evolve with the world. You can’t give up and expect the world to stop for you. That’s what bugs me about these coal miners, factory workers, taxi drivers or workers at any of the millions of other jobs that have become obsolete. They refuse to accept that the world has changed and they refuse to adapt to it. Then they expect the rest of us to make exceptions for them, so they can continue to live out their lives without putting in the work to keep up with the times like the rest of us have.

Technology has nothing to do with gut instincts. It’s just a generic scapegoat for the lazy. It’s no more a good thing or a bad thing than the seasons. It’s thought evolution. It’s how the world works. Technology doesn’t effect your gut instincts, but if you decide to give up on learning new things and allow yourself to get left behind, it will effect your confidence in your gut instincts. But that’s not technologies fault. That’s your own.

 

[blockend]

One area where camera technology is killing creativity is exposure. Modern automatic light meters are designed to attribute values to different parts of the image, to retain detail. Unless your photography is purely descriptive - and not always then - that method of exposing film is no more relevant than any other. I often use simple cameras, typically ones that expose at 1/100 at f10. With 100 ASA film I know pretty much exactly how it will make a scene look in different conditions. With more sophisticated cameras, when in shooting in bright sunlight I often have exposure set between 1 1/2 and 2 stops underexposed with negative film, because I like how it will look.

It's not technology that's killing creativity, it's the reliance on it and ignorance of what it is trying to do to your pictures.

 

[benjiboy]

I agree. Take a look at Polynesians able to navigate the ocean without charts, compass nor GPS.

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This skill was almost lost.

There is no record of how many of how many of them drowned before they perfected the skill