It is difficult to think of anything that, now that it’s here, we’d be better off without. I don’t believe the technology itself is a problem. Maybe it’s more the issue of its advent, arriving before anyone realized they needed it. Or maybe it’s the evolution of it, everything added on that has led us down some road where we’ve become obsessed, and islands unto ourselves, or we’ve succumbed to the siren song of relentless marketing and variations on evil intent, i.e. surveillance, spying– all the Big Brother stuff.
What’s not to like, for example, about a handheld device that serves as phone, decent video and still camera, GPS guide, list keeper, means of written communication across the miles, access to the world wide web, etc.? Trouble is, we’ve let the technology gain the upper hand. And, of course, people will find devious ways to use it.
When it comes to AI, the important thing to remember is the word that begins with A. Humans are still the real thing, though we’ve begun some sort of descent to a place where we give up control, become too dependent on something that can only ever approximate the intangibles of a soul.
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