have us humans definitely affected the future of humanity and this planet

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with technology? humans aren't the first ones to use technology. apes have used technology. eg - weapons to crack open coconuts. beavers have used technology. eg - beaver dams., etc.......
but us humans are the first ones to move away from primitive very basic technology to create and find and invent amazing advanced technology. technology that can destroy and bend rules of nature. technology that is destroying nature so much, we are having to pull it back a bit.
i am talking about advanced technologies such as computers, internet, space travel, airplanes, mobile phones, cars, video games, heart transplant, plastic surgery, televisions, video/photo cameras, etc......
so my question is - have humans physically affected the future of humans and the future of other living things that will walk on this planet with our technology?
 
Animals do not use 'technology' (any more than our ancient cave man ancestor did) .. sticks and stones picked up from the ground and used to hit or smash things is not 'technology' as we know it .. indeed it is doubtful that sticks & stones can even be called 'tools'.....

Most people would define technology as the processing or conversion of raw materials into tools and the using of those tools to achieve a specific aim .. in my view nothing before the use of fire can be called 'technology' ..

Now about the 'Rules of Nature' .. by this I assume you mean Darwinian Evolution .. well, yes, our knowledge of the Human Genome means that we can now 'bend' evolution into a different path should we wish to do so (I have no doubt that, in the same way as the East Germans used steroids to boost the advantage of the Communist era athletes, some countries, most likley China, will already have started investigating how to produce individuals to rival Einstein ..)

Have humans 'changed the planet' ? only in the short term .. if a Dinosaur Killer hit tomorrow, in less than 65 million yaers there would be no evidence that humans ever existed .. except perhaps some fossilised bones and a few bits of decomposing metal on the Moon ..

Has technology changed our future ??

Yes, for sure = technology now gives us a chance to detect and move aside the next Dinosaur Killer - and may even help us avoid the next Ice Age .. I ignore Global Warming .. a few degrees (or even 10's of degrees) that means turning up the Air conditioning anotehr notch is a lot easier to live with than an Ice Age (where we would have to learn how to live under 2 miles of Ice).
 
Yes definately effected the future of humanity and other species. Dont forget we are natural though, so destroying nature is a bit of a weird accusation, if ants make a big ant hill, we do not accuse them of destroying nature, just because we use all the universe offers us, to create new things, doesent mean we are destroying nature, just altering it. Of course life on earth is only temporary, this is a temporary home, one day the sun will consume the earth as it dies. So it is important we advance with science, so that we can move to a new home.
 
The coin flips both ways. On the one hand, it is technology that is draining natural resources such as oil, by consuming it as electricity, viz. cars, computers and other electrical appliances.

On the other hand, we are going to need the support of technology to overcome the approaching crisis of global warming with all of its ramifications. We will have to plan sophisticated contingency plans; process a lot of data very quickly, and design defences (and later safe substitutes for current food and electricity sources) that will require a lot of artificial intelligence to engineer.

So yes, technology has definitely affected the outcome of the future, and we will have to hope that it will ultimately be for the better!
 
Believe it or not, technology can simply mean using ingenuity to do something differently. As a rule everything learns to do something better after repetition. This includes mammals, insects, and animals. What you must realize is that nature is very resilient. Because everything that can be conceived comes from nature, we don't go off world, bring back alien elements and attempt to manufacture something that this world has never seen before.

1. However, I must concede that it is true that complex concepts, like the CERN, employs a more serious look at the effects of technology. I would suffice it to say that its nothing that this planet hasn't seen or been a part of already.

And, when we look at reactions such as what may occur after the detonation of a nuclear weapon, then on a monumental scale yes we could affect the future of humanity. 2. But, nuclear fusion happens normally in space. There's nothing to say that an extraterrestrial object could not introduce this concept to us by accident instead of us destroying ourselves on purpose.
 
Whatever era we live in, there always has been some form of "advanced technology".
Fire, shaping stone tools, domesticating animals and plants, metals and alloys are just a few "high tech" ideas in their day.

It's part of our evolution.
 
It have in a very big way. If you see on the human itself. We're weak, we can't run fast we can't fly or breath under water. But we have the brain. Then we make things that can help us being the greatest. But technology will be our death too. If we look at things we will always think on things that make the everyday easier (Machines, robots. We are even trying to make a robot that thinks it self) but if we continue that then in a certain time there won't be humans needed anymore. Because we make a thing that is better at working than our self. + if there happens an error with machines, robotics or modern technology. then it could be catastrophically. Like Chernobyl the power plant that exploded and intoxicated a huge area. Or The nuclear bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. That killed around 200.000 people. So we actually destroy ourself in a way.
 
You've already answered yourself. We've already affect ourselves and animals and we will affect the future, we've done this by creating the things you list in your question.
 
It have in a very big way. If you see on the human itself. We're weak, we can't run fast we can't fly or breath under water. But we have the brain. Then we make things that can help us being the greatest. But technology will be our death too. If we look at things we will always think on things that make the everyday easier (Machines, robots. We are even trying to make a robot that thinks it self) but if we continue that then in a certain time there won't be humans needed anymore. Because we make a thing that is better at working than our self. + if there happens an error with machines, robotics or modern technology. then it could be catastrophically. Like Chernobyl the power plant that exploded and intoxicated a huge area. Or The nuclear bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. That killed around 200.000 people. So we actually destroy ourself in a way.
 
Whatever era we live in, there always has been some form of "advanced technology".
Fire, shaping stone tools, domesticating animals and plants, metals and alloys are just a few "high tech" ideas in their day.

It's part of our evolution.
 
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