Living a day without an interaction with technology seems inevitable, and it seems as though technology is taking over nature and humanity. Of course we can’t miss the chance to argue over the subject of what’s technology, and of course every human being thinks that they’re the middle solution, and the golden one. Well, obviously some might consider their phone a technology but their car just a transportation tool, another might consider their car and phone technology but their shoes to be just shoes, forgetting that those shoes are made by technology. Everyone thinks they’re the best middle, we’ll get to that on another day.
According to Wikipedia here’s what technology is: The collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings.
How Technology is Harming Mother Nature
Now that we’ve clarified what technology is, it’s certain that the chances of not interacting with technology got narrower. However, what’s important here, is to keep in mind that we’re talking about the consequences of technology and how it supposedly harms nature.
To keep a long story short, there’s no such thing as technology vs nature, all of that is just crap. Nature has created humans, so humans are nature. How come birds are nature but somehow humans don’t consider themselves to be nature? It don’t make any sense! Mountains are nature, but cities aren’t? Other animals’ homes are considered natural but buildings aren’t? Where’s the logic in this? So whatever humans do is also a part of nature.
[Humans haven’t created anything at all, we’ve just found ways to use what is there to benefit us]
It’s just ignorant to think that humanity and nature are different! It is even more ignorant to ignore earth’s intelligence. We were made out of the earth. All the components that make up the human body exist in the exact same relation to that of the earth’s. It is blindness to ignore the law of the nature, the exact same laws exist in the human nature, even in corporations and everything that humans do.
The Connection Between Technology and Human Nature
A computer works in almost the same way as the human body. A processor has almost the same responsibilities and functions to that of the brain. The same goes for other machines, governments, countries, societies, corporations and so on… It’s worth mentioning here, that one might say, they’re similar because they were made by humans, who have only seen that mechanisms, which in its turn strengthens my previous point, that all are connected and are being ruled by the exact same law.
With the development of humanity, there has been thousands if not millions of inventions which were not used and have been forgotten, we call them “useless” for they have no use for us. Out of this simple logic, we get to the conclusion that whatever inventions, tools and technologies we come up with, and which are used, are only the ones which serve the human interest and its needs. Here one can say that it’s an obvious point, but this point is one which will change our approach to technology and nature entirely.
When the need for fast calculations with big numbers were risen, humanity came up with the calculator. It’s not that the calculator wasn’t invented 1000’s years ago because they were dumb, it’s just that the need for it wasn’t there yet. The same goes for the flying cars, space travel, inhabiting other planets and all the other stuff which mankind is aiming at but is still to achieve it. And the only reason for a calculator to exist is to serve the needs of its user.
What’s The Role Of Technology in Our Lives?
If you analyze your phone or computer, you’ll notice that it’s just another part of your body, it is still detached from you but it’s undoubtedly a part of your body, it does as your brain commands, your fingers receive the order from your brain give it to the phone and the phone accomplishes the given task. Should your phone disobey your orders you’ll get rid of it as soon as possible.
It is this detachment which I believe will be solved in the near future, where our devices will be attached with us and will directly follow our commands and serve to our demands.
A computer isn’t smarter than humans, it’s there to serve our needs and demands. Just like the stick which is used to get something that’s higher than that of ones height. A computer is used to solve problems and equations, or to store things or to do calculations faster and more efficient than a human brain can. It’s important to mention that it’s only thanks to the human brain that a computer works that fast.
What’s the Purpose of an Advanced Technology?
If technology is being evolved it is only because it is required to do so. As for the question whether technology is taking over nature or not, the answer is simple, no it isn’t.
We don’t know what’s going on. No one really knows, at least to our knowledge, ok, to my knowledge to be exact. We don’t know why we exist, why we do what we do, why all of our instincts are about the survival of mankind. It could be to assist the depletion of the Ozone layer for all I care! I mean we don’t really know that! It could be to cut down the trees and “pollute” the environment. Anyway, to keep things as logical as possible, we will agree that nature and technology are the same, or rather technology is another part of the nature.
Cancer Cells in the Nature
We cannot disregard the fact that there could be cancer cells among our species, which will contribute not to the survival but to the actual destruction of human life, but that too, will be in accordance to the laws of nature. What I mean is, it won’t be in vain or so…
All I’m saying is that the situation isn’t that nature is being taken by technology. It is that nature is changing it’s form and is developing itself, it can “fail” and it can “succeed”.
Conclusion
To conclude all that we’ve discussed above, it’s important to mention that technology is part of nature, our buildings, sky-crappers, cars, phones and everything is a part of nature. If we separate technology and humans, we’ll notice that they’re connecting to each other on daily bases, and if we get a closer look to what’s going on, we’ll notice that technology’s purpose is to eventually connect all human beings.