Does technology lead us to inhumanity?
Many of you may be shocked by the title of this article. You may think that this writer has gone crazy or something. Technology that has made our lives better than we ever thought and now this writer says that technology is making us inhuman. I will say yes it is.
A few days ago I saw a report on TV. The reporter was reporting on the sufferings of some poor people who could not even eat two meals a day. But the reporter did not help them on the spot. Just make a report for the broadcast. That means that people’s sufferings are used as products to become famous or to earn a living. Another incident was, a few days ago in a convocation act of a University, one of the guests fainted on the spot. There were about 300 students, but none of them rushed to help the guest. Rather, they took a photo of him and sent the news to his friends and family, tweeted it on Twitter, and shared it on Facebook and other social networking sites. They didn’t even think about helping the person, but just took the opportunity to make it a breaking news story.
We now have the technology to broadcast anything live from the venue. Anyone can act as a reporter using their mobile cameras while they move through the streets and some accidents happen. We cannot control what should be broadcast and what not. But we must think before doing anything.
I remember a classic movie called “Roman Holiday” in which a princess came to Italy to travel. But since she was a princess she couldn’t move freely. Then her parents controlled her and gave her sleeping pills at night. One night she left without permission from her parents to travel but she fell asleep in the street due to the effect of sleeping pills. A journalist found her and took her to her house. The next day a report came in about a missing girl. But there was no mention that she was a princess. Upon seeing the report, the journalist understood that it was her he took to her house last night. He could have publicly spread the news that he had found the princess and gained money and popularity. But he did not do it to save the honor of the princess and her family.
In schools and universities, students are sexually intimate and make videos of them and spread them on the Internet. Some people are blackmailing their girlfriends and their families. Our culture and social values are being destroyed.
We cannot run out of technology, but we must mature enough to adopt with the advancement of technology. We should film ten videos with cultural and educational values if we film one pornography.
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