Is Technology A Curse?

Editorials News | Jan-31-2022

Is Technology A Curse?

To decide if innovation is a gift or a revile is probably the hardest choice one can make. This has produced a major contention, driving into the making of two unique positions and perspectives: allies and rivals. According to the allies' perspective, innovation works on our satisfaction. Probably the main revelations we have done would not have been imaginable without the utilization of innovation. Things like the web have certainly adjusted the point of view we had of distances.

Presently we can simply interface with the World Wide Web and speak with individuals who are miles from us, this progressively, or then again assuming you like, we could fly and fly abroad to visit them. This is just one of the numerous models we could provide to demonstrate the way that innovation is a gift and that our life would not be something similar without it. Then again, adversaries express that innovation winds up making a more pressing issue than the one we were attempting to determine in any case.

They accept that the advantages we could acquire aren't anything contrasted and the harm we have caused. Once in a while innovation isn't utilized to take care of any issue, yet simple to make one. We should involve the atomic bombs, for instance, they are intended to annihilate, to kill. Regardless of whether somebody can make due after an atomic bomb is exploded close to where they will be, they will likely be impacted by changes and extreme hereditary issues because of the radiation brought about by the bomb. As I would see it, innovation is neither a gift nor a revile; it's both.

What makes it change its position is how we use it. We can't fault an atomic weapon for the harm it produces; we fault the individual who exploded it. It's something very similar with all the other things, PCs, drugs, vehicles, planes… and even with basic things like pencils or pens. Everything is an improvement; everything utilized innovation to be made. What ought to stay in our hearts is assuming that how we manage it will either favor or revile our current circumstances and, as a result, our own life.

By : Prachi Sachdev
Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Pilani

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