Would you rather lose the use of all phone devices or one of your hands?
Technology has become a part of us.
Question:
Would you rather lose the use of all motorized vehicles, all telecommunication devices and computers, or one of your hands?
Tagged: artificial intelligence., technology, transhuman
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I would go for transport, obviously. Im too attached to my hands! Ha!
Fascinating question. I rather like my hands. I could probably live without all my technology related things, but it’s not all about me. I’d be surrounded by people who still have full use of their technology. This would make survival in this world quite a bit more complicated. I’d be disqualified from jobs (unless I can use other people’s technology just fine), be limited to bike travel (I live in the city, so a horse isn’t an option; though that’d be more fun), and lose many of the things I enjoy.
I don’t want to steal another person’s comment, but depending on the prosthetics available, I might sacrifice a single hand (can I choose which one?) to keep technology. I like to be as non-material oriented as I can, but my field of study is pretty computer oriented. It’s possible without, but I’d be at a major disadvantage in such a competitive world.
But if no prosthetics are available, I’d find a community where living without technology is made easier.
Maybe it’s because I’m an idiot but I feel like you are trying to hard to use big words to bolster your credibility in this response. I appreciate an extensive vocabulary but not every word has to be a three dollar word. I think this person was initially saying that once they stopped using technology new behaviors regarding what one gets from technology would change out of the need not that new technology would emerge and replace what was given up.
I had a stroke and lost use of my left hand (dominant) and left side of my body. I’ve got about 90% use back. When you lose the use of something important, the need to have all of it back is relentless. I have gone from dial phones to my current Note 3, I started on 2nd generation computers up through today. I would give up all the technology to walk like a normal man… and I would do it today.
I was kind of leaning towards keeping my hands from the beginning but if this if your statement is true and just made up for the sake of argument (necessary disclaimer on the Internet) that makes your your opinion on the matter a little more credible since you seem to understand the reality of both situations and only makes me feel more confident in my position on the matter
It seems adding motorized transportation is a bit arbitrary -as such forms of transport existed long before computers and smartphones and the only real connection would be they are all ‘modern’ inventions- and makes the question much more difficult to answer, in this context you would have to live within a close proximity of your job, friends and family (perhaps if being a passenger is allowed this is not as much of a hinderence) to be workable (choosing to keep your hand), if it were just phones and computers I would choose to keep my hand.
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