The Blurry Faces of Technology

From over the past centuries, long before the heydays of science and technology, people have been shown from various studies to have been more circumspect and reflective than those who are in the 21st Century. Apparently, the unrelenting technological innovation moves into a considerable speed to the extent that we are bereft of the time and opportunity to probe the product of our technological inventions and discovery. Not only does the fast-rate technological innovation deprive us with deliberate analysis on the advantages and disadvantages it may afford, it also attempts to remodel the structure of our daily life. 

"You can take everything from me, but not my smartphone!" says a TCC student.

Technology remarkably becomes too ingrained in our DNA, so to speak, that we almost think that life is nothing more, or less than technology saturated. Life becomes harder to live apart from technology any more than for a fish to live away from salt water. 

In its primordial phase, however, technology provides people enough room to savor the essence of solitude. In addition, every individual back then acts and faces the menacing challenges of the real world head on. We once lived our lives away from the attachment of our phones, nor of the summons of the virtual world. Our communication was more realistic and our lives are much reflected in our solitary introspection.

Unfortunately, at the advent, so to say, of technological metamorphosis, it purloins people off-guard with its subtle charade of utility. That is, it garbs itself with the teleological garment of heading towards global development where its actual main objective is to maximize the growth and interrelationship under the strata of globalization label.

While this yields holistic benefits to everyone, it attempts nevertheless to impose its manner of living in a very furtive way to every individual. The lives of people tend to become an offshoot of mundane technological mechanization, instead of naturally conditioned entity.