How to Get Empowered, Not Overpowered by Technology
I was watching a video the other day on Technology and it gave me some surprising revelation in the end. It felt like if I was listening to the future which has probably arrived or has chances of arriving shortly.
Here, I am talking in the context of technology and its current and would be interactions with humans.Â
To start with; I know humans as the most smartest and creative species on this planet. They are credited with bringing the Digital Age into fore for the collective benefit of the entire population. But by quoting this a very different question came to my mind and it was - Are we not carving an easy way to let the technology and AI simply merge too deep with the human world; while we being its creators are easily fading into the background?Â
Even though we are investing so much of our time and energy into building the complex of technologies; I feel we are not doing what we should do and are unable to see the possibility of dead end that may arrive soon ahead.The problem is that we have already made the boom of Digital Age as "The Giant and Humongous Thing" which is happening in this era of evolution; and we think that we are so entrusted with creating this other Intelligence, that we have automatically diminished our capabilities when we Compare Ourselves to Artificial Intelligence. We have almost considered the idea of 'US' as Humans and as more evolved and creative Species as the forgotten and not that important. We are thinking in a solo frame of thought and in only Technological Language.
By saying this I am not saying that digital boom should not happen or we should stop seeking the technological favors; all I am putting forward is the thought that we are the Responsible Makers of the digital evolution so we just cannot fade into the background silently by handing the "Flame for the Future" to the other Intelligence in making. I believe in the thought that we should instead collaborate and go forward hand in hand with both our fellow humans and technology, then only we can create a Real Better Future. To say in other words, it is a matter of retrieving the values that we are in danger of leaving behind and then embedding them in the Digital Infrastructure for the Future.
The better real world is only created when the Humans realize that the technology that we are creating should be put to optimum use for enhancing lives not for eroding lives in the tech wave. We have to understand that we are responsible for creating this intelligence and the power of control lies in our hands and in no circumstances it can dictate us because we are its masters and not its slaves. Delve on the idea that we are "Team Human" and even though we have got our essential humane patterns to be mimicked by the AI we are still above it in terms of two essential factors which are - Conscience and Conscious. This makes us Unique and very Human.Â
Understand that the need of the hour is to build the platforms that don’t repress our creativity or novelty in the name of prediction or betterment but actually promotes and helps us achieve more of creativity and novelty by acting as the tool and providing us with the solutions. Humans should realize that our motto is to spend our time and resources from the technology, Apps, Tools, equipment that we are building as the instruments to equip ourselves better so that we could make a Real Responsible World in future. Together, let's make the future we always wanted. That means; there should not come a point that make us feel the need to escape from the future which we never wanted.
