Using the tools properly

I don’t think there is necessarily any technology that I would be better off without but there is definitely technology I could use better. There in a nutshell is the problem that the human race has had through the centuries.

So much technology has been misused, mainly by people who want to hurt or control others. For example, the Internet. It started off as a philanthropic gesture by Tim Berners Lee who shared the code for the World Wide Web with the whole planet despite the fact that he could have made a fortune out of it. Sadly, because of the often mentioned (by me) issue of human nature being basically bad, this gesture has become one of the biggest problems in everyday life.

AI in itself is actually a very good tool, but again, it’s been misused by people with power and control as their aims. They have programmed AI to reflect their own biases and people who consult it often assume that it is in fact unbiased. There is another problem, the fact that it is in the interests of those in power to keep people ignorant. To that end, schools across the world are not allowed to teach children computer literacy and media literacy. We are a dumbed down species and that is essentially down to deliberate choice from those in power across the world. The result is a technology that few understand and that a tiny number of people with knowledge control. This has happened with technology throughout our checkered human history but the power given to the few by this technology is unlike anything ever seen before.

So, the technology is there and it is up to us to use it properly. Get your knowledge base extended by doing your own research and make sure that you are doing everything you can to control technology rather than letting it control you.