Are we ready to let go?

Many of us may think that we’re ready to transition into the next phase of technology, but are we really?

The current phase of tech includes wearables that can track your vitals, voice active devices, and driver aided automobiles. However, it seems as though we still struggle with the seemingly obvious function of caring on with common sense. In a C-NET article on Richard Trenholm on April 25, 2016, comments, “Technology is accelerating at a rate we may not be able to handle. Today’s thorny questions about privacy and virtual reality could soon be overtaken by even bigger ethical quandaries about our very humanity. We aren’t yet equipped to solve such dilemmas, warns futurist Ray Hammond.” Doesn’t this make you think what’s are we getting ourselves into?

When we think of years past, things started out relatively slow and progressively picked up speed. Things now are moving at a rate that may be uncontrollable. Are we as people equipped to function at such a high level? I think there are limitations to which we are able to function at.

In an article by the Huffington Post “How You Can Train Your Mind To Do The Impossible” updated on December 6, 2017, by Carolyn Gregorie, she notes that, “We know that the human brain is a powerful organ, but many of us aren’t aware of how much the mind is truly capable of — and much more powerful it can become through deliberate training. By exercising the brain (yes, you can use repetition and habit as you do when you exercise the body), we can achieve what may have previously seemed nearly impossible.” So, if the brain is trainable, what’s truly wrong with people who eat Tide Pods, think that it’s ok to bully people online, and go on a killing spree across an elementary school and public areas, knowing that it’s inherently wrong?