Technology is the practical application of knowledge in a particular area. 21st century had seen much technological advancement in every part of life. We are quickly moving towards automation and robotics which includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things etc. Technology has changed everything from communication to the way we think.
Today most people do not invent, they do business to solve people’s problems. They can sell anything and every human being is targeted customers. They are collecting data, what you search, where you click, what you buy, how you react to certain copywriter’s text. This is impacting our life because they are creating products based on our search results and technologies habits.
We as humans are losing our thinking capabilities because we are addicted to use more of digital tools than to think. If we require any information regarding to anything we can just use internet (one of the digital tool). This situation will even get worse with artificial intelligence. Main role of AI is to calculate the result of ‘n’ number of probabilities which can happen in a particular experiment or a situation. This will completely eliminate the need for experimenting because you have a powerful super-computer to that for you.
However technology has also helped in a lot many ways like in education system, nowadays we don’t just rely on books we have a lot of material available anytime at our fingertips. Communication is now not a barrier at all, we can talk, chat, video call whatever we want at a very low rate or just free of cost. We can order anything from electronics gadget to food to cars, taxi almost anything.
Technology is making us more and more dependent on our smartphones and internet. It’s impossible to be truly self-reliant, but it is possible to learn more about the technologies we use, to learn basic skills of repairing and fixing them, to find people who know more about particular topics.
Individually, we depend more on our technologies than ever before – but we can do more than ever before. Collectively, technology has made us smarter, more capable and more productive. What technology has not done is make us wiser.
Imagine a person sleeps in the year 1970 and wakes up after 50 years that is in 2020. He will find the world has changed a lot, however he will find himself more organised and energetic as compared with current generation. But if we compare the productivity of people at that time with current century, we people are generating more products with a smaller land with high profits; I am directly aiming the manufacturing industry. Technology is a boom for this industry. As and when people will generate more products in a less space and time with more quality, living standards of people will tend to rise, consumption is going to rise and so the use of more resources for meeting the demands.
So does technology makes up more productive? Does it help us to get more organised and achieve our dreams at a faster rate? Or does it make us lazy and busy doing nothing?
I don’t have a clear answer to these problems but yes one thing is for sure technology belongs to those who know how to use it to its fullest and bring out the best outcome. It has become such a powerful tool that it can destroy an individual or its can help you in a lot more ways. Technology will be getting more advanced and it has not break circuits that means upto the time human civilization is present, technology won’t have limits.