What technology means in our life and what are it’s significances?

It is completely new stuff and not roads, or penicillin, or factory tires. Another way to think about technology is to imagine the world without technology. If we were to eliminate everyt little bit of technology in the world today, we would not survive and have high mortality rate.

About few million years ago, for human it was possible to get enough food due to the technology they had. But when the scarcity of highs and lows and droughts came, then people went into starvation that’s why they did not live very long. So technology brought very simple tools which helped human to eliminate extinction –

Another factor that came into existence in the world of technology was Fire🔥. It was used for cooking and for their own defence. Ultimate causing our bodies to adopt to these new diets. With these technologies and invention of languages human population exploded quickly making us dominant species on the planet. That means every small technology brought big changes in the world.

The general aspects for evolutionary life are being performed by the six kingdoms of life that are –

And now as per the Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest, a whole kingdom has established – the Technium.

For example – The iPhone can only survive if it keeps outperforming it competition. Typewriters and steam engines have died in changed environments. Old fashioned cameras have been replaces by the arrival of digital photography. Today we are witnessing the explosion of the technology. The new species of technology are being born daily and evolving at faster rates. Every technology eventually gives birth to another one. We are giving birth to new notions and it is happening faster than our minds can comprehend. And we are the creators of this new kingdom – The Technium.

In future, is it possible that humans and technology would fuse?

I guess it is more likely to happen. I mean, look around you. People clutching cellphones, wearing VR headsets, smartwatches around their wrists, a child playing with a tablet. It happens that we’ve embed computer chips directly into our brains and blood to control diseases which are gonna live in these organs forever.

Are not humans becoming a hybrid species? – a fusion of biology and technology.

I doubt if we can call ourselves as Homo sapiens in a time.

For the hope and optimism, we can have a future where technology can become so inexpensive. It can provide billions people with water, food and clean energy. Where power of internet can come to aid for quality education, medicines.

Technology can open fields that have not yet imagined. And above all, a technology that began creating critical resources for which warring would no longer be necessary.

“The technium branches off from the mind of the human animal, just as the deepest roots of the human branch off of the bacteria.”– Kevin Kelly

And here is Kevin’s discussion of Technium as the seventh Kingdom: https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium-and-the-7th-kingdom-of-life

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