Are human beings, MASTERS or SLAVES?

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.