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Originally Posted by Wyodiver33
Couldn't someone have asked the same question 500 years ago? 100 years ago? 20 years ago? Don't you think that people 100 years from now will look back at us like we look back at people from the early 1900's? It's just what you are used to and what you can accept as far as change goes. I don't mind your question at all. I just think you are being a little short-sighted, historically speaking. But a person using a first generation, handheld calculator probably thought it was way better than a slide-rule. If human kind is still around a hundred years from now, your quad-core, 4GB RAM, dual GPU computer will be in a museum and people will point and laugh at it. "Mommy, how did they ever play Doom 17 on THAT!?!"
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There's a lot of truth to this, and I honestly don't understand projections and statements like "Technology will no longer grow, we've reached a limit." That's all bunk. Of course what we have now will be laughable in the future.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
People always think that the period they're living in is unique, and they're almost always wrong.
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However, I think there is something unique to the period we live in. Not 30 years, but whenever the transistor became miniaturized and ubiquitous was a pretty significant step and I really don't think anyone can deny that. Yes, technology grows through time, and in the scope of things, none of it looks that even - but there are a few jumps here and there with significant innovations such as that.
As for technology making lives easier/harder, that's a hard question to address, but I find it is all about the level to which YOU can maintain the technology, and not have it spill over you. Yes, use cell phones to plan events out such as in laconic1's situation - but some people might make multiple phone calls to sort something like that out. Dumb people will just be dumb, and while I'm sure the technology makes their behavior more conducive to a lack of control with technology, I think the majority of people who handle well with advancement find it worth it.
I also think Bakara_guru is spot-on.