An end to poverty?

[LondonManc]

It hasn't found a cure for stupidity though - well done you've completely missed the entire point being discussed which was not whether science is good, but that human nature hasn't changed despite our wonderful advances.

Rather than proving yourself an idiot (again), perhaps consider that human nature includes the way we think, act and feel. Increased longevity has made us think differently about a whole variety of things, including planning for our old age as well as caring for our ageing relatives. The whole philosophy of the NHS as well as our reliance upon it is a shift in human nature from what it was before that.

Add to that the advent of television and computers and there's been a whole mindset shift in accepting newspapers as gospel to an inherent mistrust of them. To suggest that technology isn't changing human nature is only something a gibbon would assert.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Rather than proving yourself an idiot (again), perhaps consider that human nature includes the way we think, act and feel. Increased longevity has made us think differently about a whole variety of things, including planning for our old age as well as caring for our ageing relatives. The whole philosophy of the NHS as well as our reliance upon it is a shift in human nature from what it was before that.

Add to that the advent of television and computers and there's been a whole mindset shift in accepting newspapers as gospel to an inherent mistrust of them. To suggest that technology isn't changing human nature is only something a gibbon would assert.

Or to be more precise - in my opinion - technology has changed the expression of human nature. Our nature is still the same as it was a long time ago.

[AtW]

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

HTH

Well you ARE the forum specialist on primitive cerebrums AtW. The floor is yours!!

[SueEllen]

Add to that the advent of television and computers and there's been a whole mindset shift in accepting newspapers as gospel to an inherent mistrust of them. To suggest that technology isn't changing human nature is only something a gibbon would assert.

The British are and have always been mavericks anyway compared to other countries in Europe.

There were always people who never trusted the establishment, and some of them fought against the status quo. This is one of the reasons why we don't have things that are common in other European countries like ID cards, and why there were riots and other resistance to the poll tax.

All technology has done has shown there are more mavericks in British society than originally thought.

Governments now have to divide and conquer to rule, but this will not work forever..