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Technology can impoverish the mind if the person on the receiving end of its beneficial contribution chooses to be a slave to its helpful but subtly addicting uses. Technology is the biggest helping hand humanity had ever realized. It was exploited by the kind of people who delved down on their drawing boards for the benefit of mankind as well as the ones who happened to share the same gene pool who hated self-preservation at best.

Good or evil, at least they're not with us who share the majority of the gray area where we lax in our comfort zones tampering what most of these technological breakthroughs have given us so far. Tinkering with the latest phones with nothing more than equipping it with a full-fledged city map or a disintegrating ray in mind is just some sort of wacky way to wee the while away. If people have nothing better to do with the system configuration of any technological item then there is a big chance that the only thing we do is waste time and energy consuming the rapture these modern artifacts bestow on our uncaring egos.

And, oh, if high powers may insist I would be happy to say, "That's right, folks! Whether it sounds nice or blunt, being a total consumer all throughout without any major concern as to the future of a certain technical equipment we shelled out cash (or credit as in most cases would be) for, be it for its own improvement or branching a diversity, invites a big hand-shaped billboard with the message "credit bubble" to slap us right on our numb faces." And, no, this is not a hate article for the less enlightened people. This is just a plain, straight take with a tiny bitter message stuffed in for double impact. Read these words: technology impoverishes total consumers. If we can be as united as we can in this should-be-civilized human era, then we have an easy grasp of what this double-bladed sword have for us since the time our kind have been piling up like fecal rubble on this sad earth.

Technology can impoverish the mind, if one chooses it. And no, it cannot bleach out the stain of complacency from the 90% of people whose addiction to consumerism is adding up year after year. In the end it's not really a question of whether technology impoverishes the mind. It is more of who are most willing to be impoverished by what emotional or sentimental experience technology bestows on us. Because whether we like it or not, there will remain a group of people whose intelligence rating ranges far below the normal preference of a mature society. Thus producing an ever-growing mass of readily available, wide-gaping, survey-filling targets, whose susceptibility to being impoverished by almost anything that has three dimensions comes naturally.

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