What are the advantages and disadvantages of technological progress?

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Advantages:

Medical care & response time to critical situations
Information storage & retrievel for crime prevention & apprehension
Safety, i.e. toy recalls are made known to us more quickly
Cars are safer, vaccinations are more reliable.


Disadvantages:

We don't have to think as much,
We don'thave to work as much,
These things should lead to more free time in our lives, but usually dont'
These things also make us lazier & stupider.

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