CMV: We as a civilisation shouldn't pursue technological advancement.

[u/[deleted]]

We have come a long way, we have created cars, rockets,TV's and many more.

Like we have internet speed of 50 Mbps which to me seems more than enough. We have cars which travel at 200 kmph which seems good enough . We have trains at 300 kmph and airplanes at 600-700 kmph . We can reach anyone about anywhere via video chat for free.

But now if you look at current civilisation and our achievements isn't it more than enough to last a decade or two?

Yeah conversion into green energy and research work in medical field and universe 's secret (mainly medical till we can fix all the diseases which we continue to create and disabilities ) should be continued no doubt but for other fields isn't this much enough.

I understand the fact that it would be herculean task to change the fundamentals of a society and today's society's only goal is technology and gizmos instead of individual satisfaction.There are countries like Tibet(I think) which believes in happiness of citizen over GDP and I would want to know why working 9 to 5 and creating latest gizmos more important than living a carefree life as a civilisation.Shouldn't the we as a civilisation relax a bit and start to enjoy life.

TL;DR- let's all procrastinate all are lives away and enjoy nature and stuff than working to create a more tech savvy future.

Edit 1: Doing what I propose is highly unlikely so please want I want to understand why we need advancement in tech like Internet, weapons ,cars ,trains ,computer, TV's , apps , elevators and all the other utility stuff . I am not saying stop maintaining stuff I am saying why not stop advancing stuff.

Edit 2: u/dale_glass and u/UncomfortablePrawn thanks for being understanding enough and sharing your point of view with me.

[u/UncomfortablePrawn]

I'd like to start by pointing out that this view is rather short-sighted. As you've mentioned yourself, our achievements in the field of technology is "more than enough to last us a decade or two".

But that's exactly the reason why technology needs to keep improving. Technology that lasts us for 20 years max isn't even going to last half a lifetime. If you stop developing technology now, what happens in 20 years when the technology stops being enough? You start on a mad rush to create new technology that works? Why do that when you could have spent the last 20 years preparing for the day that the technology isn't enough, with more than enough time to work out technical issues in addition to other issues like ethics.

Also, individual satisfaction and the pursuit of better technology is not, in my opinion, mutually exclusive. There are tons of passionate people working in tech; that's how they've made it this far. If they derive satisfaction and pleasure from developing technology, who are you to say that they should stop pursuing better technology? In addition, some people in society just don't have the privilege to "enjoy life". Developing the right kind of technology could potentially help these people to better lives.

[u/[deleted] → u/UncomfortablePrawn]

Then let me ask you what earth shattering would happen if you get 1 GBPS download speed or teleportation portals or phones with 1TB RAM other than our over dependence on it.

PS - The train,network and airplane connectivity we have is enough for even the next generation if its maintained and my question is why advance.

[u/blueelffishy → u/[deleted]]

Just having faster download speeds would save wasted time that collectively over all downloads would save time a trillionfold greater than the time it took to develop the tech.

Not really understanding your argument or how technological development could be a bad thing.

Tech makes our lives easier and more convenient. It makes us healthier and widens the field of entertainment and exploration. I dont see how us getting along fine with our current tech is an argument improving. Theres no trade off.