Technology:
A mind game!
Wether technology is good or bad
is not an easy question to answer. The fact is technology has
contributed to significant improvements in areas of medicine, communication, travel,
human living, education etc. At times
they started off as rich man’s things, but later they filtered down to the
common man. For example the mobile
phone started off in India as a luxury item, today, even a poor person may use
it. The Internet, mobile phone, automobile, CT scan have made
significant difference to people’s lives. Technology works as a boon only when
it affects the larger mass of people, not when it is used to come up with fancy
gadgets for a small section of rich people. Technology works only when it
becomes easier and cheaper for people to use.
Technology is a boon as long as it is
our slave. It’s when we let it become a master, that it becomes bad. Technology
on its own can never be your master. When you say technology is dominating your
life, in a sense you are allowing it to do so. As a human being you have a
brain, to decide what’s wrong, what’s not, when to stop, and when to get off.
If you are unable to use that brain, you don’t have any right to blame others
for it. People complain that technology makes one lazy and obese. Sorry,
it’s not technology that’s at fault, it’s You.
Veda Pai Kane.
Veda Pai Kane.
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