In today’s fast paced world, everybody
wants the best things in their life be it a swanky sprawling home, most
technologically advanced car, the latest gadgets and many more to make their
life simple and AUTOMATED!!. Everything in our life from the smallest of things
to the International Space Station is made up of tech which makes our all tedious
tasks (as we say in our times), simpler or to be said again, AUTOMATED! at its
best.
But really, do we are the masters of our
own wilfully created technology or we have just become the slaves of the
created!!
General people often make mistakes by
relating technology to the computer related stuff like hardware, software, lines of codes etc.
etc., but it is more than that to it. It is for sure that the area we think about today is TECHNOLOGY,
perhaps the last two decades in our country is TECHNILOGICALLY driven. As to
become a more advanced nation, every country in the world is trying to bring
out better and better results from the
tech we use by simply upgrading it, making it work faster, finding ways to make
the same technology work in different ways but to get the same outcome or
result…or to say INNOVATING.Being innovative is better or being inventive?. From the beginning, the advancement of the human
race is entirely technology driven. For e.g. The spark created by banging two
stones, using them as weapons, round stones as wheels and the list goes on and
on.
There is a big saying “NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL INVENTIONS”
which compels the human beings to find out ways to overcome an obstacle in
their evolutionary path, but why this saying is always been connected to
technology, why is this “technology” have been the driving force of our entire
species?
Technology generally simplifies our
lives, our day-to-day work and keeps us safely away from the mundane tasks that
we dread, but does it implies that it makes us more intelligent by not doing
the things which are supposed to be done by us, which might bring out new ways
to do it and also new outcomes or to use a better word for it, RESULT, might
be achieved. But we let the “set things” or say “tech” to do it just for the
ease of not doing it, or to say not wasting our “precious” time on it by doing
it. Really?, Is our time wasted in doing the things which could be done by a
machine more efficiently and in small span of time. Alright, I also give in to
the point that something’s are more efficiently done by a machine than a human,
but what the heck, humans again has created that machine giving in countless
time just to make it functional and bringing it out to the whole species to
make use of it so that the countless hours required to that piece of work can
be reduced. But does this indicate that doing that piece of work, has to be
done in the same manner or the way the machine does it? Or are there other
alternate ways to do that kind or work which might lead to different outcomes
or results.
Sadly, this has become the way of our
life that we don’t bother to look upon the steps of doing a piece or work
rather than focus on an outcome or better to say RESULT. If the desired result
is achieved then everything’s fine and if not then we try it again and again
and don’t see what’s actually going wrong in there. We don’t even try to take
up that task, as it is mundane (our perception) for us and work it out in a
different way to achieve the result which might be better or effective than the
previous one. We just sit there blindly, helplessly and wait for the technology
to solve that for us.
Have we not become the slaves of the
technology that we have created to simplify our lives?
Have we become too dependent on
technology that we can’t move a bit without it?
Have we become too blunt, dull,
helpless, lazy and blind, that we can’t survive without it?
YES
WE HAVE!
Because we need
technology to get us the information we need, when we need it. Over the years,
we have blended or to say moulded our lifestyles around technology in a way that it
cannot be removed or extracted out of our way of living. We do numerous tasks
everyday be it very tiny, negligible or very important but without technology
at our disposal we are just helpless beings. We do a lot of things like making
calls, texting, video calling, internet surfing etc. and we do in manner that
we have put in an auto-pilot mode!
Automating
things and forgetting about is one different thing but to make our life more
and more simple, we are giving the power of our minds to the machines so that,
it might work in the way we want it to work. But will it really work in the way
we want it to be or will it think in its own way like a sentient species of its
own kind. As we humans wage wars overs petty differences and kill thousands of
ourselves just to make ourselves right….In our own way? Will this self –conscious piece of tech might
become our greatest threat as we have given it power of the human mind which
in-turn might make human kind its slave or wipe out completely. Numerous movies
and video games have been made to give human beings the hint of the horror of
what lies beyond!!
Aren’t we
ourselves becoming or have become cyborgs in first place?
My idea of
writing this article was simply to explain that make use of the technology as a
stepping stone, like a side assistant and not as the crutch to the human kind
to discover new and unique ways to enhance technology and human kind. Or
keeping it in simple words “STAYING
HUMAN”
PS-with help
from an article.
