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Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress is Good

Technological progress can erode many basic skills and lead to over reliance on technology.Well it can, but that doesn't mean it does. Moreover, if technological advances make these 'basic skills' unnecessary, why does this matter? And what do you define as an 'over reliance'? Many students lack basic math skills because they can simply use a calculator to work even simple problems.Source? Also, again, if these skills are no longer necessary to complete math problems, why is this a problem? And when one potentially has so much knowledge at their fingertips, how many actually remember things for when they don't have an internet connection?Interesting hypothetical, but you need to fact check: http://www.slate.com/articles/healthandscience/science/2013/09/aresearchenginesandtheinternethurtinghumanmemory.htmlUnfortunately, that hypothetical is not backed up by facts. Further, it is easier to remember things if they are physically written and read.Um, why? You can't just make claims like this without supporting them. This sounds a bit like bs to me. It is easier to remember things if you physically write them yourselves, but that's still happening. And technological progress (the debate topic) has nothing to do with the amount that people write things. And are you trying to argue that reading from a screen is harder to remember than reading from a book? You're really going to have to provide a source. And of course, much of the time technology is not used for educational purposes and rather for things such as social networking which serve only to make our society more shallow and discourage actual face to face interaction. This has nothing to do with technological progress, only technology usage. Like most of your arguments here. As for military use, drones and their operators from afar simply cannot make the sort of judgment calls regarding civilians and collateral damage that a soldier on the ground can.Well, that sounds like an argument against drones. But the psychological principle that the further you are from a victim the easier it is to kill them applies to more than just drones... it also applies to guns, and crossbows, and so on. And this seems to be a criticism of a specific technology instead of technology in general. Also just a quick note: You only mentioned calculators, social media/reading online, and military drones. Technology covers a whole lot more than that. You didn't address the central argument of the debate: Does technology do more harm than good? How does a dependency on calculators outweigh all of modern medicine? How does an imaginary fact about the internet hurting memory outweigh the convenience and usefulness of planes and trains and cars?
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

The technological process is bad because children growing up in todays society are heavily dependent on technology. Kids from a early age are exposed to all different forms of technology. With technology consuming the lives of people, it takes away from their health and being able to have the social skills needed in society.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological Progress is a bad thing because it is making it harder for children in this age to learn, focus, and creates more harm in the society. When, children sit down in a room in the dark and sit there and play video games all night without the light on it starts to harm their eyes and either way it is still depleting brain cells. Children do not do their homework when they know that they can get on and play games or watch tv after they are done with their homework or projects, especially when their parents do not monitor when they do their homework or if they even do it.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress has advanced so much to the point that it has become counter-active towards our society. Because we live in a digital age it has become nearly impossible to escape the constant use of cellphones and other personal electronic devices. The constant use of these devices has taken a toll on the social skills that are still crucial today. Instead of face-to-face interaction, many people are now choosing to limit their communication through texting or on-line chats, causing many people to suffer in the area of social skills. Although some advancements in technology have allowed for progress in many other areas important to creating a better world, the overall regression of social skills has taken too much of a toll on today's society.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress, while sometimes helpful, overall does more harm than good. The best example is light bulbs. We have evidence from diaries, journals, and writings from before light bulbs became commercially available, people slept more. (Note that I say commercially available, not invented, because when it was invented there were no factories for them to be made in yet.) The commercial availability of the light bulb changed society. Where before people would have to work by candle light if they wanted to work on something at night and most would go home to their families at dusk, no they could keep working until late at night. Another example is the microwave. The microwave, while lessening cooking time and therefore supposedly giving families more time with each other or to do other things, really just makes it so people become used to instant gratification. Before microwaves, the cook of a household would have to make everything from scratch. It would take hours from start to finish to make just a normal weekday dinner. When microwaves were first in homes, the person who cooked started to have more time for other things, like spending time with their family, instead of having to spend hours cooking a meal. However, now microwaves are used for everything from heating water to cooking meat. After the food is done, instead of spending time with the family, eating together at the table, people will immediately go the room with the T.V. and sit down to watch. This brings me to T.V. Before the 1990s, people did not have many T.V. stations to watch, and on the stations there were few shows. Today, there are hundreds of T.V. stations, each with hundreds of shows playing. This means, where before if there was nothing good on T.V. you would do something else, like read a book, now all you need to do is start flipping through channels until you find something interesting. I could come up with many more examples, but this is long enough. In conclusion, while technology can be good, we usually end up misusing it.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

In my personal view I think Technological progress is bad for the reason that over the years it has made us be even more lazy, we are now depending on technology for almost everything. Even to do the most simple things we need technology, Today's kids are more often on the computer, IPad, IPhone playing video games when they should be outside playing, that also is a factor of why we have so many obese adults and kids.we need to stop taking advantage of technology in the wrong way.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress does more harm than good because many reasons. First, technology is advancing too fast for us so we don't know what it can do. Like stem cell research we have no idea what may come out of it just what it might do. Second, if our advanced technology gets in the wrong hands it can do some serious damage. Like if terrorist get a hold of our blueprints to make assassin drones, and that would be very bad.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

The way technology is expanding and being used in every aspect of are live is very frightening. Technology used to be a good way to help people when there was no other way to get a job or task done. But now it has turned into the only way that people do things without even learning how the other and sometime more effective way of doing it by hand. Plus in the times that technology fails there is no way for the worker to continue working because he never learned or does not want to use the sometime harder, more rewarding, and better quality way of doing it by hand.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology does much more harm than it prevents. Technology, as we know, makes life easier in almost all respects. It is easier to travel, to work, and even to break up with someone. Technology also makes it easier to take lives. There have always been conflicts in history in the past, but now it seems that these are abundant, with riots happening not too long ago in Ferguson. In addition, overseas, there are weapons of mass destruction, that require someone to just point and fire a missile to destroy thousands, or even millions of lives. What point is there to have technological progress if everyone kills themselves before technology can actually progress?
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress is Good

We have more weapons of mass destruction than anyone, they definitely aren't just overseas.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress creates more harmful effects on society than benefits. Technology contributes to bullying, violence, poor life skills, and poor mathematical and grammatical skills. As technology evolves, people can hide behind screens and assume anonymity. People shy away from face- to-face confrontation, and technology gives them the opportunity to say demeaning things that would not normally be said to someone's face. Cyber bullying is as harmful, if not more, than physical bullying. Many instance of cyber bullying has resulted in suicides. Technological advances create weapons with a much more potent effect. The addition of stronger weapons into society leads to increased crime and violence rates. Also, technological progress in the classroom aids in the death or grammatical and mathematical skills. Students become much too reliant on spell check and their calculators to do their work for them. In schools, cursive writing has become obsolete. Technological advances contributes to a lack of social skills. Kids, and even adults, are constantly on social media, playing games on their phones, and texting instead of actual face-to-face conversations. No matter the technology, it will impose some form of destruction on our society.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

War has always been bloody, but the technological advances in warfare since the early 1900's have changed it forever. Never before were soldiers killed with the cold efficiency of modern machinery. With the advent of machine guns, tanks, and planes, war is far bloodier. When you take into account the creation of nuclear weapons en masse during the cold war, humanity as a species is constantly on the edge of destruction. For a long time, peace only existed because otherwise we would have faced "mutually assured destruction." This isn't thought about as much now, but there are still enough nuclear weapons on our planet to kill us all several times over.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology is bad for children because it causes anti socialism, making children and adults more socially awkward. Furthermore, many people are dependent on technology. For example, many people can not go out without technology for more than a day. Technology also makes it more difficult for children to stay focused since entertainment is just at their fingertips. Also technology has both saved lives but it also took lives such as with the atomic bomb it ended WWII but it also started the cold war. It also effected of planet leaving it radiated and disfiguring many ecosystems. All in all technology could be helpful but due to mans quest for power it's uses are often negative ultimately costing the lives of many.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

I believe that technological progresses are bad, because of the opportunities that people get nowadays to cyber bully people, which is a very serious topic to talk about. Also, some technological progresses can develop a lot of problems that can lead to the device no longer working, such as computers, phones, game consoles, and tablets. To add on to that, the problems with a device, depending on what type of device it is, it could really effect the environment, such as bombs or any other weapons
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress is bad, for quite an myriad of reasons. First off, technological progress causes laziness in most individuals that use it, myself included. No longer do you need to type in passwords, or turn on household appliances with your hands! All you need is to scan your fingerprint or say "On," and suddenly the devices activate. This 'progress' also creates a less social environment. All children born in this technological era of discovery have become, in one way or another, less social. 'Hanging out with friends' used to involve going out and physically doing something. Now, hanging out can mean talking with a friend online and playing a video-game, whilst being a number of miles apart. Overall, this technological progress is destroying individuals' active and social lives.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress is bad at points because more and more people are gaining weight and becoming lazier thanks to all the new phones and computers that people use to sit around and watch movies and order food directly to their home. It also has made people expect things to work right away without any error, and if it does mess up, some just give up right away without trying to put in the effort and fix it.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

How many human casualty will it take for everyone to realize that technology is bad for people. We need more time to perfect tech. And the US cant afford improvements or new tech. The USA is trillions of dollars in debt to other country s and we havn't payed them a cent
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

while i may be pro technology i must right a reason on why its bad so with that said. i hate it when people buy iPhone without looking at other options based on emotions and the media.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology progress is bad. Just look at the smart phones. People are using their phones while driving by either testing or any social media causing more accidents now then there ever was. Since people are on their phones while, a lot of these accidents are becoming fatal. The person on their phone normally makes it but the victim, doesn't turn out so well. Even at the start of a meal, people pull out their phones at the beginning of their meal and check every 5 minutes just to make sure they didn't miss a text or an email making people become anti-social.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

I believe that technological progress is bad because if we evolve our technology to greater heights there is no stopping a robotic take over. In some cases people will say that it has already started, just in disguise. Almost everyone in the USA has a smart phone, most people have become comfortable with them, this comfort makes us vulnerable to a attack, a cyber attack. Think of it, our technology is already advanced imagine if a terrorist group gets a hold of advanced technology; the possibilities for destruction is almost endless. USA has the most nukes in the world and how are they being contained? through technology, now the terrorists know this and would be able to start WWIII or even end the world if they wanted to launch those nukes. Also, in less extreme matters, a kid in school would be able to plagiarize very easily and, if they know what they're doing, change their own grades to higher ones.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress does more bad because of the way it is used. Because technology is advancing much faster that what most people can handle, it is becoming a problem with how different people and groups of people use it. It is being taken advantage of, especially in the context of the government and military. They have excuses for using harmful technology, such as drones, to harm and kill suspected enemies, even with little to no evidence. It could be that because the drones allow for military force without soldiers, the government does not think of it as "war", but most likely some other form of battle in which it is acceptable to kill suspects in countries that they are not at war with. This abuse of technology comes from the out-of-control advancements made either by private companies or the government. Without knowing the consequences of bigger and more harmful battle weapons, the end goal of saving our people's lives is lost, and instead they are focusing on killing more of the enemy's people. The technology that what created to save is now being used to destroy. This is an obvious abuse of power and technology. As a result, technological progress is NOT good, because it distracts from the problems that it tries to solve.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological advancements are bad because the more we switch over to technology the more likely classified information could be leaked to our enemies by hackers. Or with cars with the on board computer if you can hack into the firewall on the new cars you can control the car where you are. And you could put people in danger by hacking into their cars. But I think we rely too much on technology.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress could be getting way to bad. Humans rely on technology way to much we are forgetting how to use simple skills, like reading. Students don't even us their eyes to read anymore, they can just listen to a book on their phone or tablet. Some people don't even read books now because technology has created movies. People rely on movies to tell them the story instead of reading the books, where you get all the information, instead of leaving information out in a movie. In this generation, everyone has a phone. Even a lot of little kids have Smart Phones. Technology has created a huge distraction in class rooms not just for high school kids, but for little kids too. People also rely on technology way to much in the future. People will believe technology will never stop working. but that one day it stops working, people will believe the world has ended.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress is detrimental to our future. For example, the use of drones as law enforcement has been becoming more common in the united states. This is a problem because, unmanned police force is not only expensive, but it is not as reliable as an actual police officer. Technology has also created an epidemic of addiction. Most people have a smart phone and with that comes the addiction. Most people spend about 16 hours on their phone during the week and even more on the weekend. Technology addiction has created a generation of zombies who just stare at their phones. Technological progress is ultimately harmful to us.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress is bad because, many people are so attached to them that they can't live without it and it just becomes apart of their lives throughout their existence. Another reason, this can effect people academically, people will pay more attention to their technology rather than their education and how their progress is in school. Also, concerning children's safety with technology and how they take it seriously throughout their life, they could talk with strangers or get in trouble of how they are taking advantage of technology.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology is bad. Technology kills people. A Nuke can kill millions of people. Firearms kill countless people every day. Peoples lives can be ruined with a single program. Technology disconnects people from reality and society.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological Progress is bad, because with the more use of technology it is allowing hackers to find out peoples personal information. which then allows for peoples important information to be given to strangers, or identity thieves. Also with technology rapidly is growing which is starting to take over our lives because people become to attached to them.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology is bad because the people using it can sometimes be questionable in there decision making. there are some people in this world that cant handle the power of being able to control such powerful thing. And the people that can sometimes don't wait for all of the details of the problem. Sometimes technology can go to far like how the government can know where you are at all times and they can see you threw you webcams.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technological progress is a bad thing because when we start relying on technology more and more, then we don't know what to do if we don't have it in a situation. For example, one day if you lose your phone and have to be somewhere, most people won't be able to get where they need to be without GPS. Some people may argue that teachers using technology to teach their students helps them learn better, but the old ways of teaching worked just as well and not as many tech problems occur where only one person in the entire building knows what to do. All in all, technological process is bad and we shouldn't be relying on it as much as we do.
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

I think technological progress is bad because people (especially students) get distracted at school with their smart phones and other devices. The also get in to trouble because of these devices. It is bad for society as well because people don't socialize as much now because they are usually on their phones while they are walking the dog or going for a jog. Sometimes it interrupts family time like at a dinner table i bet at least one person in the table as a phone in their hands and also technology prevents going on a trip with your family because you prefer staying in your room playing video games or watching TV
Debate: Does Technological Progress Do More Harm Than Good?
Side: Technological Progress Is Bad

Technology is bad because it can prevent kids from learning how to interact socially with people face to face. Online they can't see people face to face so they don't know how to respond based off body language. They then carry internet slang into the real world and do things like "ayyy lmao" in real life or dragging on old vine trends for a long time.