Modern technology improves people’s life
Present-day luxuries and conveniences manifest themselves in the fact that modern people are in a position to give their own jobs to machines, and to hand over their own problems to other individuals. As a result of depending on machines and receiving service from each other, they are living a life that is easy and comfortable, but have as a result become individuals that are less strong and independent than their ancestors.
Our ancestors labored in the fields, sowing seeds, spreading manure, and getting in the crops. They " walked" many miles to the town to get the things they needed. And they risked their lives fighting strong, dangerous animals, sometimes single-handedly. As a consequence they built up their muscles, and came to have powerful arms and legs. Nowadays we seldom do these jobs ourselves. We use our hands when we play games on the computer. And we are most unwilling to use our legs: to go to town we use the machine car, and to get upstairs we use the machine elevator. Thus we are more comfortable than kings and princes were 500 years ago but, on the other hand, by constantly depending on machines and disusing our own muscles we have become weak-armed, weak-legged. Now there is evidence that we are in trouble due to that weakness; even in modern times we have to face dangers that arise all of a sudden. Fires, for example, take place every day in cities. Individuals , having foolishly been waiting to be alarmed by fire alarms in times of comfort, now wait to be saved out of the fire by machines. Every so often, their being lively burned to death provides us lively lessons: such simple physical skill and strength needed in jumping or running out of a fire — acts that our primitive ancestors per-formed with ease — are miserably lacking in us modern individuals. And these lessons can be boiled down to this; luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life, which are lovely means to enjoy life, have caused us to be utterly helpless in times of crisis and danger, and are therefore truly harmful.
Our dependence on other individuals is just as fatal. In the past, when we had a quarrel with our neighbor, we argued against him to arrive at a settlement. Nowadays we hand over the problem to the lawyer; letting nun to act on our behalf, we wait idly at home to be informed that we have won or lost the case. Our great grandfathers disciplined our grandfathers. Nowadays we complained about our own children to the school teacher, and ask her to deal with them. In many cases, this dependence is scandalous. It can be the dependence of a fully grown man on a marriage expert, who is to tell him whether he can safely take a woman as his wife, or the dependence of an intelligent man when he goes to the psychologist so as to make sure if his life is still worth living. In fact, the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life have been such that no individual needs to help himself, but can be better helped by others. They function, consequently, to make individuals so weak-minded that they are generally unsure about themselves, and incapable of helping themselves.
The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life have been the products of a series of revolutions (both industrial and social) that humanity took several hundred years to prepare and complete. But, when the human race is increasingly composed of individuals that are physically weak and spiritually uncertain, and humanity it-self is heading for dubious destination, all due to such luxuries and conveniences, it's time to wonder; What's the use of these marvelous things?
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