Day by day, things are becoming
mechanical with an ever increasing nuisance value! Just look at what we have to
tolerate! Keep a cell phone and you are inundated with a million messages,
completely meaningless, from call Centre’s you can’t even block! Mindless
communication.
You have sales calls harassing
you anytime of the day… mercifully, not at night! As yet!
If you block one number, they
call you from another. Social media tells you what to watch, who to be friends
with and even gently questions you as to why you have not communicated on it
for a while.
Money / profits being the whole
game, humans are being dragged towards addiction and to losing their sense of
good and bad, besides being controlled.
Look at the games we play from the
app store. The same level is tough and then made easy when you are giving up,
so you can continue and not quit! To keep you on the app, just spiking the
challenge a little bit every now and then.
Worse, new inventions are going to create non thinking generations… robots more than humans, thanks to every answer being at their fingertips through just pressing a button. Brilliance will not be defined the way it is today. Artificial intelligence and progressive inventions will render the human being powerless before technology. A huge crutch! Total dependency on technology!
Today, even if our computers pack
up, we can do mental math, and much more, because we have been taught it
perfectly. We know how to think, feel, understand. We are not helpless. Our
thinking faculties still work very well.
Tomorrow, without aids, I wonder
what will be the lot of our kids and grandkids, with more ego and more crutches!
Where emotions are being programmed into robots, what will happen to the human
beings themselves?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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