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- wop4life, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I feel however my ipod tells me to feel
- srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21OK. Let analyze this.
Technology allows me to have a high paying job. Good job: Happy. More money: Happy.
Technology entertains me. TV, radio, movie theatres, fast cars, and music. Happy.
Techology allows me to socialize with friends near and far. Happy.
Technology allows be to search a vast amount of information very quickly. It also exposes me to new thoughts and ideas. It informs me. Happy.
So, happiness is tied to the kind of person you are, not what you use.
Just remember, if a piece of technology causes you pain, you stop using it and find an easier way. Otherwise, you'd never buy a new PC or cellphone.
I, for one, WELCOME our technology overlords.
BTW, without technology, Digg wouldn't exist....... - spatznick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Inside: just a different kind of happiness.
Outside: fat! - FoxFaction, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I would say the gagets themselves make me happier. I can contact people I want to talk to whenever I want, and I can be entertained endlessly.
The effects the gadets have had on society are negative however. On the other edge of the sword, I can be contacted at any time by any person. So I have to deal with lots of things that would have otherwise been delt with on their own. I don't have a lot of free time, because I'm always being entertained or busy. I'm expected to constantly check my email or else I'll get poor grades or get fired or whatever. It has added just as much stress as it's removed. Society is becoming a much more stressful place because of the pace it is moving at, because of technology.
Overall, I think happiness is the same. Human happiness is entirely relative, I think. People will be equally happy or unhappy on average now as they have ever been, that's just a part of human nature. - konstantinos88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Goddamn pictures section, Kevin...
- Sandkat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We're unhappy by nature because we are really posessed by ancient alien spirits who were damned here by the evil alien overlord Xenu.
*note* This is a joke :3
*hugs her iPod* - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12How the heck would I know, I grew up in the technological age. How many of us can really answer that question?
- Roelewapper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I wasn't around "back then", but I figure playing with a Nintendo DS would make me happier than playing with twigs any day of the millenium.
- PatBateman75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Cavemen weren't happy? Who said so?
- Manta537, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Happier.
Technology allows advances in science, medicine, transportation, industry, information exchange and many other areas to improve life.
Yes, there are times when it makes you not so happy, like when you buy the new "cool" thing and a few months later something much more advanced is offered at a lower price. - CosmicJustice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not getting polio or small pox makes me happy, so yes, technology makes me happier.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8and...
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I thought it was good.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@brstilson
look up what scientology is - AkshayGenius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I. SIMPLY. CANNOT. IMAGINE. MY. LIFE. WITHOUT. TECHNOLOGY.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You must let go of all attachments and desires to achieve happiness.
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It doesn't make you any more happy. Happiness does not come from technology. It makes our lives easier, but it doesn't have any real affect on emotion.
Having fun in a world without technology may be different than having fun with technology, but you're still having fun in either case.
I'm not against technology, I love technology... But if technology had never been around in the first place, I guess I'd be just as happy.
Many people here are just naming things about technology that makes them happy... That does not mean that technology makes you happy.. You would find other ways to be happy in a techno-less world. - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Gizmodo headline:
"New gadget to make us happier to be released tomorrow. It's not what I expected. I've already said too much"
***** Gizmodo. - lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I, for one, enjoy the miracle of science that is toilet paper.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"It's so easy a caveman can do it"
- Phayde415, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What a stupid poll,
"Do you feel more happy, less happy, or the same?" Compare to WHAT? When I was a cave man?
The only people who can give valid feedback to the poll is people who lived lives without technology and then lived with technology.
I'm happy that I get to do what I deem "fun" for a third of my waking day. And unless you happened to enjoy starving, scavenging, avoiding predators, freezing to death, dying in your 20's, and eating once every few days, I'm guessing you weren't having "fun" at all without technology.
Technology basically reduces the "survival overhead" of life. The less time you spend doing things necessary to survive, the more time you have to do things you love to do. - Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The picture said so
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A lot of technology is developed as labor saving devices, but at the same time it was supposedly freeing us from the work it performed, along came the expectation that we would get and use it.
For example, before the vacuum cleaner was invented, people were understanding about dust on the floor, and had rugs instead of carpeting. Now that people can simple suck dust away, they are expected to have immaculate homes. In addition to having to use the vacuums, you have to put your hard earned pay into purchasing it and the wall to wall carpeting it supports.
For a little more close to home example, the personal computer. It does all sorts of great things, but now people are pretty much expected to have an email address. Also, how many months pay will go into the many computers you will buy in a lifetime? A months pay is equal to a month of work.
When Spain started colonizing America, they brought the native people all sorts of farming equipment. Of course the native people were now expected to work every day producing more food than they would have eaten, just so they could pay Spain back for the wonderful equipment. Technology means dependence on money, which means taxes and government.
Does this mean we should destroy all technology? Well no, that probably won't make us happy either. There really is no way to win you know. - Eivo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Advances in Technology / Science: Yes
Gadgets: No
This is kind of like asking if a hammer or a potato peeler makes you happy. - cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Go ahead and digg me down, but a lot of people leaving comments seem really materialistic...
- amillion3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2fox,
Check out a book called 'Reinventing the Wheel' by Peter Hershock. I think you'd enjoy it. - diggmaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not the gadgets, it's HOW you use them makes you happy or sad. Depending on them too heavily, and you just crippled yourself. Technology can just assist you, it's you who has to make the most of it, while improving your life with it's use.
- sronbheatha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So all that technology has done is improve our grammar slightly.
- jasz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three"
Can someone please tell me who the author of this quote is? - JamAlarm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3To be honest, i'd be unhappy if i had a lampshade jammed into my crotch.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Money can't buy you happiness, but money can buy you shiny technology. Close enough!
- toxie86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2technology only makes people lazy because the chose to let it make them lazy.. its not like going to turn us all obese i mean i still sit at a computer but I'll still go out with walks with my finance
- bellisimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1happiness is a state of mind which you cannot sustain on a constant basis....with that in mind - technology does make you happy...but the only reason those guys look unhappy in the comic is because there aren't any girls next to 'em....
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I kinda think all technology means is something that gives you convenience. Most things that are invented just make things more convenient for us. Cars instead of walking, phones instead of letters, IM instead of phone, text instead of IM, gas pumped to your house instead of chopping down some firewood, the list goes on. Technology is making us lazy. I'd love to go back 100 years and live, it'd be harder but much more rewarding.
- sail191912, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Indoor plumbing makes me happy.
I get cranky when the office A/C is broken in the middle of summer.
I feel agitated when the blackout lasts for more than a day.
I don't think I can live a happy life in a world without any techology. - KoZo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am happy, until a new model comes out. Now Im trying to have a positive attitude for the techie things I buy or else I will never be happy with it.
- FiP0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wasn't it Sartre who said that the feeling of unhappiness is a characteristic of humans ? I don't know if that has anything to do with technology.
Technology allows us to live longer, hence we have more time for sex/friends/family... I'd say we can be happier :) - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know you only make up 0.000001% of the world who has this technology.
If you want to spend all day cutting down trees instead of buying gas move somewhere that doesn't have it. Nobody is stopping you. - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another produces a halucenagenic goo.
- KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6it's making everyone lazy and fat
- RobbieF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A tech site, whose readership is almost solely technophiles, asks if technology makes them happy.
Seems like they're not getting a big enough sample. - Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ srodolff
Your argument is my argument. Your so called *good job* only allows you to buy more useless technology.
At the end of the day the things that make us happy are Sex, Friends, Company, Music, Excercise and Mental Challenges. All of those are not dependant on technology. - hyperden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that picture does say it all.
- jobenly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"At the end of the day the things that make us happy are Sex, Friends, Company, Music, Excercise and Mental Challenges."
Ha! You're such a nerd (meant in the nicest way possible)! Mental Challenges! How about some things that make hippies happy like love, art, spirituality, incense, and drugs? - Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Did your iPod tell you to feel to feel? - edwardoneill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you really think technology will make you happy, you have really got it backwards.
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I, for one, welcome our new technological overlords.
Oh, wait... - dist0rtedwave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just to throw this out there, without the technology of today we simply wouldn't survive at all. Theological discussions aside, I feel like we would all be a bit less happy dead.
This is especially meaningful to any of us who weren't perfect at birth, or any of us who have ever been terribly sick. I wonder how many of those strep cases I had as a kid would have turned out lethal?
Also, Im pretty into eating food, drinking clean water, and you know... shelter. - xeno439, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Obviously, us on Digg are supposed to think that technology is making us happier, but I feel the same. It's only when those that can't get what everyone else has that they feel like there lives would be happier with a technology.
- atticus8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... more able to view photos of thinner people that makes them feel relatively uncompetitive in the sexual arena and more able to watch commercials for the newest exercise equipment made from.... (wait for it).... SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY!!!
Circle of lfe. ***** beautiful thing. -
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