Technology: Progress or Perils?

As long as someone develops something that meets the basic needs of human beings, technology is created. This is perfect common sense. Many people experienced a new invention's moment. It is no wonder that people did not think about their own ideas. However, the assumption that technology is always the same as progress is incorrect. The technology is harmful, dangerous and may get worse. Americans are not increasingly physically active. Ellen DeGeneres of "How We Live" says, "Modern life requires little physical activity.

In the past 50 years, the advancement of technology has brought about a fundamental danger: in principle the advancement of technology can bring a miraculous benefit, but in most cases it will bring more harm to bad actors Let's see. Power technology is a terrible competition between circuit breakers and manufacturers. Although broken people may be only a few people, it can be balanced by the fact that destroying things is easier than making things.

Human perception is linear and the advancement of technology is exponential. Since that was always the case, our brain wiring has linear expectations. Due to the rapid development of today's technology, unlike current technology, it is far from the future. It seems everywhere, we find ourselves totally different from reality. Kurzweil cites the overall growth of the Internet as an example. The graph below is linear and the growth of the Internet looks sharp and unexpected, but the graph above with the same data is plotted on a logarithmic scale and shows a very predictable story. In the index map, growth of the Internet is not everywhere, but it is presented in a more intuitive way.

This is not surprising. As with all other innovations, the development of the Internet is also in line with human trials and erroneous advances. New technologies (such as the Internet and automobiles) will appear. When they penetrate society, it solves the problem of the previous paradigm and creates a new type of problem. This innovative process plays a role in society as a whole and certain innovations. From a narrow perspective, you can see that the development of the Internet itself is at a different stage, often referred to as Web 0, Web 0, and Web 0. Currently, it stands at the inflection point between Web 0 and 0. The paradigms around us are challenging as individuals and society oppose the adverse effects of our Web 0 innovation. I see this rebound happening in four important areas.