Anti-Technology
Reclaiming Humanity
Technology has dehumanized the human. The information age has transformed the individual into numbers. We have become slaves to our phones and the social media giants. The masses have been placated by mindless entertainment as the technological industrial complex turns us into profit. Since its conception, technology has promised innovation to benefit the lives of humans, however since the dawn of the information age technology only serves itself. Innovation no longer benefits the individual nor the community, but only serves as a footstool to further innovation. There is no more progress, only a perpetually sustained machine that serves no purpose but to keep itself running.
The natural is being subverted by the unnatural. We have lost our Earth and replaced it with a simulation of what once was. Technology has led to the creation of the mega-city, which in turn has fundamentally uprooted the environment that humans were meant to live in. The destruction of the field and the forest has destroyed in part what it means to be a human. We were meant to live in within nature, but technology has jailed us in concrete boxes surrounded by bright screens. The odd park, the patch of grass here and there are to placate of the longings of the human spirit, but cannot make up for that of which we have lost.
Social bonds and human interaction have been replaced by phone calls and text messages. Communities are fundamental to how we are to be, but we have lost that to the machine that transform everything into data. No longer is there true intimacy, but rather there is a simulation of chemicals in response to an emoji. People need people, but technology is replacing the other with simulation.
Technology has caused us to lose in all aspects of our life, and will continue to perpetuate itself until it replaces all the human experience. The echoes of the past remain, but soon they will be stifled as a generation is raised in a world that only knows the status quo.
