Tech Shapes How We Live In More Ways Than We Imagine

And the scary truth is we’re not in charge of it

What would life be like without our current technology? We need only look to the past to discover how it’s changed our lives, providing us with fast ways to communicate and achieve what would be time-consuming, monotonous chores.

Modern tech improves our well-being in many ways and eliminates jobs that used to steal time and energy. But it might affect us more than we think and in ways we rarely consider.

Hence this tweet, which focuses on how technology affected living life during the time of Covid:

Doubtless, we would have managed differently without the ability to offer children classes online, talk to loved ones via smartphones, and attend onscreen business meetings from home.

It makes you think, doesn’t it?

Would lockdowns have been in place? Would people have shifted from offices to their spare rooms? Would businesses have closed their doors? Would (and I guess the answer’s yes) many more people have died?

While some people think technology makes it easier for the government to mobilize the herd in a positive way, others might believe life could be easier without it.

Technology is a modern-day tool. I’m just wondering if it is always helpful, though.

Technology could make people lonely

Tech can help us connect. Yet, it can also divide us. After all, have you noticed the number of individuals with bowed heads and eyes fixed on phone screens?

Whether people visit restaurants, drink with friends, or wait for trains, they’re busy checking social media sites and their inboxes, uploading selfies, or doing something else online rather than focusing on the environment.

They might communicate with pals via texts, but they miss talking to the people they are at the moment. As such, they don’t get to bond over deep conversations anymore and build face-to-face live support when needed. Whoever wields technology creates our future.

Then, of course, on top of the loneliness built from a lack of genuine conversations unhampered by distracting technology, who wields tech decides what’s invented and for what use.

Millionaires and billionaires have the funds to create new technology, shaping our futures. Sometimes, it’s not tech that’s a potential problem but who controls its production and makes all the decisions about the direction of modern advancement.

There’s no escaping the truth. Rich people get to shape where the human race is heading. If you’re poor or financially comfortable, your future is in the hands of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, who has the money to create tech, supply jobs, and choose the latest high-tech you’ll see on the production line next. They are even in charge of many things you see and use online.

I don’t mind the color choice of Twitter’s ‘like’ button. But it just demonstrates we’re in the hands of wealthy men.

The scary truth is that the people who control what happens next have personal agendas. They might consider it a terrific idea to sell vacations to the moon when most of us can’t afford the trip.

Although some think that’s impossible.

Many of us would prefer wealthy entrepreneurs to pour their money into solving poverty and climate change, to name a few worthy causes that could save humans from dying out.

Whichever way you look at technology, it’s certain it affects us, shapes our future, and is controlled by other people. “Let’s just hope those in charge have altruistic plans in mind,” she said, rolling her eyes.