Comments on: Is Twitter a threat to morality and ethics? http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rick York http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-38966 Rick York Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:14:28 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/#comment-38966 I'm 65 and, since I was old enough to understand what adults were saying, I have heard almost infinite variations on the theme of "mankind is going to hell". In spite of the "scientific" background of the people quoted, this is just one more variation. For me, the first time I remember hearing this, the cause was comics - I was about 8. Boy, my brain has been fried for a long time. It's just tiresome. I’m 65 and, since I was old enough to understand what adults were saying, I have heard almost infinite variations on the theme of “mankind is going to hell”.

In spite of the “scientific” background of the people quoted, this is just one more variation. For me, the first time I remember hearing this, the cause was comics – I was about 8. Boy, my brain has been fried for a long time.

It’s just tiresome.

]]> By: Pierre Coufaux Klieg http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-38872 Pierre Coufaux Klieg Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:53:14 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/#comment-38872 Which morality coming from which world view? Which school of ethics is being effected and how? And Yang is wrong. The speed with which things happen has nothing to do with it. The brain takes in hundreds of thousands of bits of information a second-- few things are quicker than the human brian. Indifference to human suffering isn't spawned by Twitter, it is spawned by Dark Ages and we are in one and have been in one since September 1939 and that was a long freaking time ago. Things may not be moving that fast after all, unless you tell time by how fast your PCU works which is asinine. It's not about tools or how you use them, it's about your perspective and how you allow it to use you. Which morality coming from which world view? Which school of ethics is being effected and how? And Yang is wrong. The speed with which things happen has nothing to do with it. The brain takes in hundreds of thousands of bits of information a second– few things are quicker than the human brian. Indifference to human suffering isn’t spawned by Twitter, it is spawned by Dark Ages and we are in one and have been in one since September 1939 and that was a long freaking time ago. Things may not be moving that fast after all, unless you tell time by how fast your PCU works which is asinine. It’s not about tools or how you use them, it’s about your perspective and how you allow it to use you.

]]> By: Robert Koslover http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-23809 Robert Koslover Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:34:46 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2009/04/15/is-twitter-a-threat-to-morality-and-ethics/#comment-23809 May I suggest that all advances in communications technology represent both threats and opportunities in regard to human morality and ethics? Examples would include, but not be limited to, the developments of: (1) spoken language; (2) written language; (3) paper, ink, and pencils; (4) printing and movable-type; (5) photography; (6) the telegraph; (7) the telephone; (8) radio communications; (9) motion pictures; (10) television; (11) the photocopy machine; (12) videotape; (13) the internet, weblogs, and email; (14) digital cameras; (15) texting/instant messaging; (16) Twitter; and even (17) electronic ink (e.g., Amazon's Kindle), among others. May I suggest that all advances in communications technology represent both threats and opportunities in regard to human morality and ethics? Examples would include, but not be limited to, the developments of: (1) spoken language; (2) written language; (3) paper, ink, and pencils; (4) printing and movable-type; (5) photography; (6) the telegraph; (7) the telephone; (8) radio communications; (9) motion pictures; (10) television; (11) the photocopy machine; (12) videotape; (13) the internet, weblogs, and email; (14) digital cameras; (15) texting/instant messaging; (16) Twitter; and even (17) electronic ink (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle), among others.

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