The Technological Affliction

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Introduction:
Computerization along with the utilization of a wide array of other techniques has allowed the formation of the Information Age we currently live in today; this period of time is marked by the knowledge-based society that is enveloped by a high-tech economy whose reach spans the globe, utilizing its powers of societal influence to maintain a dominance over human-kind and to bring about further evolution of modern technology and technique. Humans, through development over time, have given a breath of life to technology, allowing it to be looked at in the light of being its own living system. Technology as a system, as compared to the characteristics of life; has different levels of organization, uses energy for maintenance and growth, responds to a given environment, adapts to its environment, and produces further offspring. The missing characteristic of life is the system being composed of cells, which can be accounted for if we consider the system to utilize humans as the cells that compose this living system.
Taking this view of a living system, we can define the relationship between life and technology as that of two species that are evolving together. Technology, though claiming to be for the betterment of man, has brought many strains upon humans as side effects. Technology is like a disease that has spread throughout civilizations, taking deep root, leaving us content by offering some improvements that society’s structure did not have before, while also bringing many handicaps. This disease, can be described using the concepts of symptoms, transmission, and resistance. This being said, technology can be labeled as having a symbiotic, but parasitic, relationship to human kind, assuming technology is not neutr...

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...y and harnessing it to our ability.
Using the three aspects for treatment I gave, I believe the best mixture is using all of them to increase understanding of tech prior to advancing further while also reducing reliance upon technology and identifying and adapting to the artificial environment we are currently in , causing humankind to gain power over technology while preventing society from being stranded without technology. The second path we could choose is to only identify the effects of our artificial environment to adapt, which will buy time and, hopefully, either the problem self corrects or becomes easier to mend. I do not see better options set out so far, so I believe the best option that could possibly salvage the tech machine and man is to focus on comprehension of technology to free man from slavery, and put the reigns of life back in humanity’s hands.

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