Your society?

Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:05 pm

In today society technology is ever growing and replacing workers and because of this jobs are becoming less and people in the technical field are on demand, but what even worse is todays youth are dumbing down to a point due to the relying on tech so much that thinking for themselves is becoming a day of the past. But what if you could change society in your own image? You can do anything as long it within in society itself.

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Alyesha Neufeld
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:16 pm

Everything would be phallic in nature. Also, whip cream for every meal. Also, saying "today's youth are becoming so dumb and reliant on technology" would be punishable be exile to the badlands that lie outside of our Utopian megacities.

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Suzie Dalziel
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:03 am

As to remolding society in my image, no. I know myself to be inferior both physically and mentally. (One of my few admirable characteristics is being able to be honest with and about myself .... to a point.) As to technology replacing workers, I suspect we are entering the beginning of a great change in which there will eventually be almost no jobs of any kind left. Or rather if jobs exist they will serve solely to provide people with livelihoods rather than be essential. It will be a harrowing transformation, much contested. Society will need a whole new mindset.

This premise of course depends on continuous technological advancement, not held back by disasters natural or man-made.

-Decrepit-

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BethanyRhain
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:06 pm

my societys government will be ruled by fair and just AI. think about a government with no corruption no greed. (sighs) let the matrix and or terminater jokes begin.
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Mrs. Patton
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:58 pm

This is a trick question, right? The correct answer is that we all can already do this.

It doesn't take much to change anything. But I don't think revolution is what we need. Evolution is the way to go.

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michael flanigan
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:34 pm

Well actually, statistics show that the youth of today are much smarter than those who came before. Higher test scores, more interest in the typical intellectual fields of science, history linguistic studies etc etc...That is the ideal situation is it not? Just because a lot of entitled kids make a lot of noise, does not mean they are the norm. There are many very driven individuals who are aimless and lost in a world full of possibilities.

The problem of today's youth is that we have multitudes more and multitudes more compex problems thrown at us daily than the older generations ever had to deal with. Not that they had it easy, they got many of the big, easier to recognize but hard to deal with problems...dealt with, somewhat. We are beset by countless possibilities daily, on a level never seen before. Complex and new concepts are our norm and we have no older generation to fall back on as they simply are not equipped to deal with these situations as they cannot relate to them, how could they? The world and technology is progressing at a faster and faster rate and society struggles to keep pace. We have no large fallback of conventional wisdom to look upon for many problems we face today. Couple that with an older generation that is not understanding of this and yeah, there is a problem. Welcome to the new age, it isn't simple in any way shape or form and the generation that was raised in it is understandably confused, as we all have to blaze our own trails in the dark with the landscape shifting beneath our feet every day.
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rolanda h
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:00 pm

My own society? Too much power, must....resist....temptation

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SWagg KId
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:22 pm

Sort of like Star Trek's with a mix of Saxton Hale.

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Riky Carrasco
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:47 pm

i would eliminate any way of forming a society. I would reshape it into a way that individuals were free from the persecution of "the need of the many over the need of the few" that persists every day.

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maddison
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:20 pm

Not a good idea. I would be worse than Stalin and Mao combined.

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Jake Easom
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:56 pm

Some jobs inevitably go away as technology improves. That doesn't mean there are fewer jobs...that just means that the types of jobs that we need to fill require skill sets that don't line up with the skills of some workers. This is usually corrected over time as younger generations produce more workers with skills that fit the demands of the current market. See: Industrial Revolution.

As far as people becoming less mentally competent as a result of technology use...that also depends on your perspective. At one time people thought that calculators would destroy society's math skills. However, one could argue that the time saved in skipping the arithmetic can be applied toward understanding higher-level mathematics concepts.

At one point in time our digestive systems were better able to tolerate certain bacteria. These systems became weaker when we started cooking meat. Should we stop cooking meat to strengthen those systems again, or are we ok with the fact that we are now a species that's dependent upon cooking technology?

Anyway, on-topic...no, I don't want to shape society. IMO it should evolve organically despite the fact that there are bound to be developments I don't like along the way.

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Brιonα Renae
 
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Post » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:15 pm

When men turn 18 years old, they have to fight in an arena for their very survival. Those who live get to keep on living, and every 10 years thereafter they have to do another arena battle for their life. The arena battles could range from a battle royal with a huge group of other people all trying to survive to a one on one battle with battle axes or even a team battle against a bunch of lions while using spears or something of the like.

When people have a dispute that would go to court, instead of court they have a duel to the death with either bare hands or weapons that are agreed upon beforehand. If someone commits a serious crime, they gotta go into a pit of lions armed only with a baseball bat with nails hammered through it and if they survive, they are absolved of their crimes until they commit another one.

That's just the tip of the iceberg for my superior warrior race.

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