The comforts of technology
How technological advances make our lives more comfortable, easier and lazier
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“Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology—but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Science is marching towards new technologies which invariably make our lives more comfortable, easier, and lazier. This has accelerated greatly under the recent pandemic and has almost completely removed our need to get outside. The only reason you would want to leave the comforts of your house is to get some fresh air. And even then, you can just open the windows.
Thanks to the internet you can now shop, join group meditations, and conduct business virtually. Not to mention the entertainment value that the internet has been so faithfully inundating us with for the past twenty or so years. Large sections of our society are slowly turning into what the Japanese call the hikikomori — social outcasts that upload their lives to the digital world. We are becoming enslaved by the same thing we invented to liberate us.
