Article: Albert Einstein once said...

June 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. We have reached a time when technology in all its form has become a permanent visitor in our daily life: when we’re eating, when we’re studying, when we’re working, when we’re walking, when we’re having some quality time with friends, and even when we’re praying. It has changed from a luxury that few people had to a necessity that one could not live without. And with the era of mobile internet, technology has become an easily reachable tool for kids and adults.

         Since the industrial revolution in the 1760s, only few people had access to machines and what we then called technology. Those people were called the “elite” because they had a privilege that not many had in those times. As time progressed and years passed, there was the emergence of an electronic device called the cell phones. This break-through started as hand held receivers in the 1940s, and mobile service was available in 1946 primarily in the U.S. The first handheld phone weighed 2,5 pounds and measured 9 inches long. Only a handful of people had the chance to experience such a discovery. Development continued until we reached a day, today, when cell phones are “pocket” sized, and almost all people carry them.

         Not only did the evolution hit cell phones, but also the internet and its speed. Internet started as 0G, and evolved to reach, nowadays, the 4G. It has also become available on almost every mobile phone, thereby facilitating the jobs of people and their communication with one another. Not one person can deny the positive influence of the internet on people’s daily life, but only ignorant people will overlook its negative sides. As Henry David Thoreau once said, “men have become the tools of their tools.” What he meant by that was that instead of people being in control over the internet, things have taken a dark twist leading us to a time when men are being controlled.

         John Kennedy explained the contradictions of technology when he said’ “the world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life”, hence, making it very obvious to us that if used wrongly, technology has the power to abolish us all. This technological progress can merely be a process that takes us backwards instead of forward if not manipulated cunningly.