Question

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Do you agree, as Bill Joy suggests, that we should practice relinquishment in the face of technologies and breakthroughs?  Explain your answer in 125-200 words

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Answer 1

Firstly, this question is multidimensional and thoughts below are based upon the humanist approach:

I am not in full agreement with his suggestion as a day without technology nowadays is unimaginable. With the technological advances human beings are dominating earth and its every aspect whether living and non living. Days are gone when human beings were dependent upon nature for its very needs. Technological advancements made efficient use of natural resources possible and still improving the methods used. Two thoughts that "knowledge accumulated with the use of human intellect made technology" or "technology made the use of accumulated knowledge possible" are indistinguishable. First thought indicates the dimensionlessness of intellect of human beings and authority of human mind over problem solving. But second thought indicates its dependency upon technological advancements for problem solving and thus restricting human mind and its playground to play with problems. As an example, today we are mainly dependent upon calculators for simple calculations which can easily be done but their use surely makes life easier. Thus restricting growth dimension but calculator itself is an invention of human mind indicates the dimensionlessness of human intellect.