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    #1

    Technology and Society

    Is anyone like me and think how the fk did it all
    change so fast?

    Everyone spending more time starring into their
    phone than doing anything else?

    Internet,gps,facebook,texting,skyping,interact and on
    and on and on.

    I always think of the story of the chinese general
    when asked about the effects of the first world war
    his response was"don't know,to soon to tell".

    Anybody have an opinion on where we are heading?

    Anybody read any good authors on the subject?
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    #2
    Be prepared to sleep with your light on ...
    Disregard religion and think technology...
    Read in 1981 - freaked me out then



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      #3
      Well... CP....

      There is plan 'A'.... "Do the best you can with what you
      have"...

      And then when someone says... "Time is up"... well
      that is the time when plan 'B' kicks in.

      One Appointment not one of us will miss... is death.

      There are endless versions of this book on the
      internet... it is the best seller of all time! IF you avoid
      reading this book... you avoid it at your peril. The
      Chapter written by John... is usually the best
      introduction to it.

      Cheers!

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        #4
        Glen Beck's Agenda 21 is a rather interesting
        fictional futuristic peek. But read it before one
        angry finger in some unknown hot tent
        disintegrates Shand on a forty below nIght and a
        half million Saskies freeze in the dark . Pars

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          #5
          Every one of the technologies has an off switch. You could try using them to quieten your life, but then your response would be to *f*off.

          The one thing everyone should do is to send a cheer out to Tom. I think he has been frequenting too many Alberta-British pubs.

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            #6
            ....a bunch of social misfits who live
            in a fantasy world that have no face to
            face interpersonal skills, can barely
            spell and don't like work. They will be
            fine until what the previous generations
            accumulated and provided for them runs
            out.
            Who here wouldn't like to get off the
            technology treadmill and get back to the
            basics/simpler times? I can make
            technology part of my life but I don't
            want it to rule it. I guess I have to
            realize when it stops adding value to
            aspects of my life, it is no longer
            needed.

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              #7
              Tucker: If you like to remain as ignorant as you seem then keep your closed mind sealed tight.

              Dr. Suzuki is not a dummy as you seem to think. He has some good advice for Canadians regarding the paving over of our good farm land.

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                #8
                Checking, maybe its the sacramental
                whine.

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                  #9
                  Checking: maybe its the sacramental whine.

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                    #10
                    Farmaholic,

                    At this point we can feed ourselves... and don't have
                    drones targeting our country. We can still speak freely
                    about our faith.

                    Therefore other than defending my 'neighbour' who is
                    defenceless... my political projects have diminished.

                    Cheers

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                      #11
                      I'll check that book out,notice the price tag at the
                      top,lol.

                      Checking,its not really about one person,its about the
                      whole herd of humans going through a huge
                      paradigm shift in a short amount of time.

                      Maybe its not worth thinking about or maybe there
                      are serious consequences,or benefits,i don't know.

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                        #12
                        CottonPicken,

                        This explanation (In 3 minutes) explains what technology is doing for us! Cheers

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                          #13
                          Don't venture near a "black hole". It is the ultimate squeeze play that you seem to be pondering.

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                            #14
                            one of the biggest growers around these
                            parts 12 to 15 thousand tonne wheat and
                            about 4 to 6000 tonne canola didnt until
                            this harvest have mobile or even
                            computer, relied on his wife to read
                            daily faxes and his bank which he is
                            always in credit to advise him on the
                            over the counter swaps etc.
                            massive on farm storage and cash sales
                            but he finally got a "new fangled mobile
                            phone" this year
                            suprisingly only in his mid fifties
                            pooled grain "pools there for the
                            kiddies to swim in dad was against them
                            so was grandpa" lol hes a real
                            chareacter

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                              #15
                              I am a strong believer in self
                              sufficiency and bucking the techno trend
                              as many on here know. How many of us
                              anymore could feed ourselves when things
                              go south? I figure a precious few. I am
                              learning "new" old skills like
                              gardening, hog raising, milk production,
                              right along with the new technologies
                              that do nothing to grow, store, and live
                              off of my own food.

                              I love this bucking the trend! I am 36
                              years old, and I am getting a milking
                              goat (maybe two) soon, to save us about
                              3000 bucks a year in milk and cheese,
                              and give us 100 pounds of great meat.
                              All at a cost of about 20 cents a day
                              for feed. And the cost of not going away
                              and spending two weeks in Oahu or las
                              Vegas. For shame, my kids will have a
                              goat, chickens, pigs, horses, sheep, and
                              a garden to learn to take care of, while
                              their peers, yes even on most farms
                              today, sit there like zombies staring at
                              the latest gadget.

                              Yup, I'm bucking the trend and loving
                              it. Loving my 2007 flip phone too, my
                              1993 tractor that is steered with my
                              arms, and my wrenches.

                              LOL! Loving it!!!! Loving life. The more
                              I go "backwards", the more I realize I
                              have been missing in life. Thankfully my
                              wife is awesome and "gets it".

                              The one thing I am missing out on, is I
                              have no neighbors, no friends who "get
                              it". They are after more things.
                              Electronic schtuff that makes you lazy
                              and non-self sufficient. You can't raise
                              a hog with a blinking I phone or
                              whatever they are called nowadays. When
                              money is worthless, they will have no
                              clue how to survive. I strive to not be
                              this way... I will not do this to my
                              family. I do wish I had a nearby
                              neighbor who a guy could run ideas by.
                              But my neighbors do not have the 5
                              minutes a day to feed and water the
                              hens. They do have time to curl, to
                              chase land all over the country, but no
                              time to grow a bit of food. Sucks to be
                              them, IMO.

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