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Can we create technological solutions to all our problems?

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No, technological progress cannot meet all our wants nor make us happy

Narz says: We are still animals, products of nature & we must live withinlimits. The George Jetson idea of perpetual technological "growth",population, ease & comfort is A : not practical & B : not evenparticularly satifying. People today are fatter, less happy, lessconnected with their neighbors & communities than 20 years agodespite Palm Pilots, AIM & MMORPG's.

No, human problems are not the same as technological problems

Compare the difference between progress in the physical sciences and the social sciences. Progress in the former is rapid and tangible – repeatable experiments prove theories. Progress in the latter is far more difficult to achieve or even define. That's because the workings of the human mind is still mostly a mystery and because humans are subject to a huge number of variables and its very difficult to create repeatable experiments that genuinely take account of that.

Narz adds:

"Society is a technological invention, with its component variables really no different than the component variables of an airplane". In the redesigned society, 'government' will be purely technical. Decisions will be arrived at by The Scientific Method using computers and databases. Decisions will be implemented by people selected= - cojadate, quoting & paraphrasing the Zeitgeist Movement source: http://yoomoot.com/bookmarks/the-zeitgeist-movement-observations-and-responses-activist-orientation-guide
That's a pretty retarded bunch of statements. Reminds me of one ofthose e-books on how to "Score with Any Woman!!11!" which compares awoman to some sort of machine. Or perhaps to the philosophy of the eviloverlords in a bad dystopian movie.


REDY adds: Like all utopias, the Zeitgeist Movement's vision of changing society is scary and against humanity. No, people are not components. I think that beliefis somewhat contradicted by earlier claims. People will not leave theirhouses and cities just because they are ineffective. People do not thinkby science means as they don't think strictly by economical means.