Humanity and Technology: The Alliance

Technology is advancing at lightning speed. Faster all the time, it's spreading into all areas of our lives. Equipment that when obsolete two years ago is now obsolete within 6 months. Technological tools are becoming smaller and cheaper to the whole world. Businesses and governments try to seek out their economic equilibrium as consumers purchase goods laterally, from each other through the web, often avoiding traditional consumer shopping or payment of nuisance tax.

Humanity is reeling from the physical effects of technology also. Normal human development doesn't happen at lightning speed; It's a timed and sequenced process that needs human interaction, behavioral learning, and real experiences, if we are to find out the complete spectrum of emotion and mature into healthy and happy adults. In times past, the way we lived our lives incorporated human interaction. Technology has now changed the way we live. Pushed too rapidly, human development becomes distorted or retarded, and emotional maturity goes awry.

While we still crave new and faster technology, as physical beings, we also feel the physical effects of getting what we would like . We are getting isolated and narrow focused , perpetuating a narrow, superficial, and isolated existence. citizenry weren't meant to measure during this way. The human spirit must be nourished and replenished with work, play, friendship and love. At the core folks , we are emotionally and physically interactive beings. once we lose our ability and therefore the opportunity for emotional connectedness, we are in peril of becoming as inanimate because the technology we so greatly desire.

Our electronic media culture bombards the present world with mass reproduction and reproducibility which will fool the human eye. Reality can become distorted; what's real and what's not real? The word, simulacrum means an unreal or superficial likeness, a replica without the first. Photographs, TV, video games, advertising, computer graphics, and computers are a part of our electronic media, offering images so realistically created or altered, they will appear real, even once they aren't. This inability to differentiate the important from the not real causes us to question our reality and that we begin to mistrust our own perceptions. we start to believe that nothing is real. This results in feelings of apathy, hopelessness, and, ultimately, anarchy. If nothing is real, then nothing really matters. We become as robotic as our technological inventions, and even as cold and unfeeling. This is often death to a person's spirit that needs the heat of human connection, touch and trust as its foundation. And, the human spirit won't go quietly into the night; it'll not vanish without a fight. it'll find another thanks to express itself, too often within the sensual world of drug abuse and addiction.

A basic knowledge of human development is required to know the elemental nature of the gap that has been created by our technological advancements. Our experiences from birth to age five set in situ the neurological foundations upon which future learning depends: self-awareness, self-regulation, communication skills, personal relationships and therefore the ability to find out from cause and effect. When one among these core developmental processes isn't successfully navigated, it alters the power to find out, evolve and mature. As citizenry, we answer and grow from being held, talked to, read to, taking note of music, and played with, and pleasurable physical experiences with others. Without these foundations we regress, into citizenry with no self-awareness, no self-control, unable to speak our ideas, needs or desires to others, difficulty making or keeping relationships. And, not conscious of what's wrong, we are unable to find out from our mistakes.

This is especially troubling during a wired world of data overload, and becoming more so as technology expands and accelerates its domain. When technology is obtainable to children too early, during human developmental years, it creates a drag. it's going to offer an intellectual exchange, but not the nuances of a person's exchange. When technology is employed as a surrogate caregiver, it creates emptiness within the human spirit.

The word simulation means the method of pretending, an imitation or representation of behavior, of 1 system through the utilization of another system. The military, enforcement and businesses use the technology of computer game as a training tool, to coach for the important thing. The technology of computer game may provide a partial learning experience, an intellectual experience but not a person's encounter. it's an incomplete experience that lacks the complete inclusion of the five senses, the very senses through which we experience being human. Once we become aware and feel a full sensory experience, integrated through a shared physical encounter, it becomes functional, developing a person's skill that we will use in future interactions.

As modern technology requires our cognitive self to hurry up, the remainder of our system nervosum lags behind. This ultimately becomes a bridge too far and that we create a split within ourselves, pitting technical being against human being: a brain without a body, intellect without emotion.

It doesn't need to be this manner. Technology can enhance the human world, but technology can also enhance the person. what's needed are new ways to integrate technology with basic human needs and use that technology within the service of human development