It is the story of the past when machines were built to save effort and time of the mankind. Today, we have ample machines to give us all the free time and yet, we are making more machines by the day to save more effort. The result is that we have started to become slaves to our own inventions.
Take washing machines, for example. Can you imagine a life without them? Can you imagine that you can wash your clothes by your own hands? Well, it’s a scary thought, isn’t it? We cannot imagine our lives without the television, computers, mobile phones, mixer grinders, cars and motor bikes. There was a time when we could do all those things ourselves.
We have been driven by our uncontrollable desire to become tech-savvy; to develop more of them and if we continue at this pace, we will soon not know what to do without them. If the technology fails us and the Internet goes down everywhere, the entire country, all the financial systems, all trade and commerce, all hospitals, etc. will stop functioning. What will happen then? The movie, “Die Hard 4” shows such a scenario when the country is thrown into panic, when some hackers hack into the security systems of America and the entire country is threatened into oblivion.
We must, thus, use wisdom and prudence in developing technology and in such a way that its loss will not affect the human way of living.
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