We’re hearing about all these cool things that the latest technology is able to do, but honestly I find it just flat out scary.
On one side of the token, we are complaining about the unemployment rate and then flip of a switch we are raving about the newest machine, which can complete the work of ten men.
Well, that’s ten jobs that just got flushed down the toilet.
Why are we so obsessed with creating robots instead of keeping people employed?
There is now technology that can make beef without using any meat from a cow.
Google Glass is the latest fad, but what purpose it serves I really couldn’t tell you. Why do we need a voice-commanded computer screen right in front of our eyes for?
So we can check our Facebook while we’re walking to class? No one should want to take their hands out of their pockets during winter. Not only does the device look ridiculous and create a new threat to driving, but don’t do anything we need done, and yet people are spending $1,500 a pair.
We can clone things. How scary is that? Stewart Brand tells us that there is now technology that can bring extinct species back into existence by inserting their saved DNA in existing animals’ reproductive systems. But once they give birth to the extinct creatures, what happens? The newborns do not have parents of their own kind to follow and learn from. And what if the ecosystem has adapted to life without these extinct species? Will they be able to reintegrate?
I’m all for saving endangered species, but I’m not so sure about de-extinction. We have already screwed nature up by killing off these animals, but now we are going to alter the reproductive patterns of living species in order to try to reverse our error? DNA is not meant to be altered with. Why can’t we leave it alone and focus on the things that really matter?
Where is the technology that cures cancer? AIDS?
Amazon is coming out with Prime Air, which flies packages from the warehouse to your doorstep in thirty minutes using these UFO-looking machines. Can they sense when an object is in front of them? I guess we’ll find out when they start killing birds and smashing people’s windows.
Why is this necessary? If you need something in thirty minutes, here’s an idea: Don’t order it online! Go out to the store and get it! The money you might be saving by purchasing the item online will be surpassed in the shipping fee that these little UFOs will undoubtedly cost.
It makes me sick.
Cars can parallel park so that people can become less competent drivers.
Programs can spell check so that people can become less competent spellers. Pills can make you lose weight so you don’t have to adapt a healthier diet.
Machines can pull and push and dig and turn and mix and lift so that people don’t have to perform physical labor.
No wonder there is a demand for engineers these days – because instead of demanding exercise or what used to be ordinary intellect of human beings, we are demanding the creation of machines that can do everything for us.
It’s also no surprise that we are a lazy, obese and unhappy nation in general.
Every day we get one step closer to living in the futuristic world portrayed in the Disney-Pixar film “Wall-E,” in which the humans live on a huge spacecraft where robots do everything for them. Machines dress them, brush their teeth, and deliver food and entertainment to them so they never have to get out of their chairs.
Everyone is fat and greedy and yet always unsatisfied because they are not getting any fulfillment out of life.
This is what we are becoming. We are so used to this lifestyle that it is impossible to reverse it completely and get rid of all this technology.
Imagine a world without it. You may not be able to watch your favorite TV show or text your friends about every aspect of every day of your life, but you would be healthier, humbler and most likely happier.