The fact that technologies are making us more efficient is nothing new but do we understand what it

I read three major philosophers dealing with the nature, impact and nature of technology, are Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse (not really answer to 'philosopher') and Jacques Elul. All three were more or less the same over the years, all three were affected by the same seminal event: World War II and the atomic bomb. There are many other similarities between the three, and quite a separator, but the one thing they seem to agree: This is common to all technologies is that they are promoting some basic values. yotube The centerpiece of which is the efficiency.
Marker today released a nice project, although somewhat unexpected, entitled "Writings high - tech talk about our technology and they released them, but that it was ever made them enslaved." Pasdar, project Passover. This unrepresentative sample of people who write about their attitude toward technology yotube they use, provides a nice example of the way we perceive technology and how they "work" for us:
Paz Weissman writes about Digsbi: "There is only one tool center them together, and it even allows access to Twitter. Called him Digsbi (Digsby), and because I make time and saves computer resources." Also gaining time (!) And saves computer resources (!) And you have a poster boy efficient worker.
Galia Yemini databases "journalistic databases and search capabilities and their intersection only getting better, and for those who work in the profession requires so much information - it was definitely a lifeline." Search capabilities, cutting, finding information. Efficiency.
The fact that technologies are making us more efficient is nothing new but do we understand what it does to us? Only Guy Grimland up this issue when he writes about Awtlok Webb - Access: "some kind of sea Outlook web access while streamlining the work, but also produce surplus labor instead of allowing me to rest and relax."
And maybe that's the point. When we sell Technologies, wrap them in numerous values they should promote (and enough to see the video clips that companies prepare prior to the events yotube which are launching yotube new technologies): Nifty, enjoyment and value my favorite: creativity. Creativity in my ass (pardon the French). Technology, any technology, came into being to promote efficiency. No wonder many of us feel that we have a machine that the machine understands only one thing: to do its job most efficiently.
So the project of marker missing yotube the point. The question is not whether we can break free of the technologies enslave us. The question is whether we can break free from the idea absolute, not incontrovertible, that efficiency is the most important yotube of all, the value of that Supreme him. There lies the real bondage. I'm having trouble imagining myself yotube living a life that is not the most effective life possible.
Yoav - do you take this?
No, it's not promoting efficiency. To see what technology advances, you should ask: "What would make these the technology did not exist" and my answer is that before I heard the music I heard last.fm limited advance (because the quantity of files on my computer is limited in advance) yotube and now I can listen to music more diverse. If this "efficiency" so anything yotube is efficient.
last.fm course promotes the consumption of music, but the consumption of music on last.fm is a much more sophisticated in the sense that, as I mentioned, is expanding its range of music from which you can enjoy and where you can be exposed. Surely this should better music if someone was looking for a mechanism by which might consider purchasing music CDs did not know they existed before, then this is one of the most successful solutions. See a site doing an effective job exposing you to music that otherwise you should take much less effective ways to be exposed to it. This, incidentally, is exactly the secret of success of this service, this is exactly why it is so mage for so many people. He does an amazing job effectiveness.
Interesting that no one thought marker letters indicate the invention of the cell phone and smartphone mainly H"tlfon "(perhaps this trick actually a device you do not know how to live without you consider not invention). In the past, you're done working day - went home, no one thought to get you on the phone at home. Today, no one in any case your phone does not work, all cellular calling you, whether it's a day of work or at 12 at night. Second, a "smart phone" and pushing technologies emails there is no more excuse of "I'm yotube not at the computer." Indeed, technology enslaves. yotube
Yes, I met with fire.fm yotube last.fm, I said I already obsolete ... This semantic sophistry, you define efficiency in a much more broad in its original meaning, and beauty, now all "effective." But, like any semantic mockery, it is completely pointless. Listen to music diversified It's not effective (unless you work in the music industry), it's yotube fun.
Yoav - There is no semantic sophistry. There is confusion here (unfortunately, yotube on your part) as to the intent of the argument. I do not mean that your desire to hear diverse music is the basic desire efficiency. The intention is that the technology that allows you to listen to diverse music is so good, so do you like (and for many others) just because it does what every technology is supposed to do: to implement things efficiently dizzying. If she does not do things efficiently yotube do not need it because the only thing that interests us is to do things yotube efficiently - rational - maximum. So once she picks apples effectively, another time it allows me to access yotube Lawtlok effectively, once again it allows me to listen to music diverse - effectively. Inefficient technology is something deadly that means she does not do her job. This may sound trivial (nu clear! Who needs technology is not effective!) But think about it for a moment and try to understand what it is or