# Has our technology surpassed our humanity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810 "2010-04-03T06:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Regullus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Regullus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regullus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/1 "2010-04-03T06:21:55Z")
How and why? Question 2: Was the Pacific war a war about racism and terror by the Americans against the Japanese? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/2 "2010-04-03T06:41:57Z")
> [@Regullus](#): > > How and why? > > Question 2: Was the Pacific war a war about racism and terror by the Americans against the Japanese? I’ve reported this post to a moderator because it’s in the wrong forum. Also, even if it were in the correct forum (probably Great Debates), this board is not a place for you to snap your fingers and get everyone else to perform for you. If you want to discuss the issue of technology and humanity, or the question of race as a factor in the Pacific war, then why don’t you give some of your own opinions and get the debate rolling yourself? Simply posting multiple unrelated questions in a single OP, without doing any of the work of getting the debate started yourself, is just going to annoy people around here. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/3 "2010-04-03T06:48:00Z")
This can’t end well… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/4 "2010-04-03T06:48:02Z")
**Has our technology surpassed our humanity? How and why?** No. Because I said so. \*\*Was the Pacific war a war about racism and terror by the Americans against the Japanese? \*\* No, it was about us getting bombed at Pearl Harbor and being (rightfully) really pissed off about it. _General Questions, giving you concise answers to non-debatable questions._ ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/5 "2010-04-03T07:06:37Z")
> [@Regullus](#): > > Has our technology surpassed our humanity? Define humanity. I still fell humane so I would say no. > [@](#): > > Question 2: Was the Pacific war a war about racism and terror by the Americans against the Japanese? What do you mean by war of terror? If you’re asking whether we tried to scare them or not, then the answer is yes, it was a war of terror. It wasn’t about racism. They attacked us, so we responded. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/6 "2010-04-03T07:58:49Z")
Homework? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/7 "2010-04-03T08:01:05Z")
Are these homework questions? They sound like homework to me. Now, go to your room and finish yourself. Then you can come play here. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/8 "2010-04-03T08:51:13Z")
Of course technology has surpassed humanity. Humanity is on page 124 of the dictionary, and technology is well ahead on page 637. Xenophobia is better than both. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/9 "2010-04-03T08:54:35Z")
Has our technology surpassed our humanity? How and why? No. Because we don’t have robots yet. Question 2: Was the Pacific war a war about racism and terror by the Americans against the Japanese? Who the hell asks these kinds of questions? It sounds like a question you’d see on a Stormfront application. Don’t doublespace your answers and put it in a large font, the teachers know that trick. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-our-technology-surpassed-our-humanity/534810/10 "2010-04-03T11:47:35Z")
Assuming that this IS homework, it’s closed. **samclem** , Moderator, General Questions