Man's creative destruction
Oh God, please save us. Are we on the verge of evolution or destruction? On the technology front, we are assuming that making robots to take up mundane regular tasks is creative or progressive in nature. What if it turned out to be the worst ever invention of human history? Add AI to these bots and they can even think like Humans, at least that is the assumption as of now. Imagine a future where the bots with their intelligence ruling the humans who invented them. Isn't it scary?
Let us take a step back and see where did we go wrong. Today morning I had breakfast with couple of my classmates @ IIM Bangalore course. While having coffee I found that the disposable paper cups used for the coffee had a thin layer of wax and a plastic layer inside the cups making them carcinogenic. Introspecting it further, our own creation to make our lives easier has been the cause for our various diseases or rather destruction. So are we really intelligent enough? Yeah many may argue that we are evolving. I just hope the cost for these learnings are not hard to pay. Or have we already started paying it? Global warming, ozone layer depletion, animal extinctions are few effects of our creation. Isn't the warning sufficient?
What lies next for human kind? Is it the co-existence with mother nature by simple living becoming impossible? Do we have to spoil our Earth (home) so we look for Mars to stay? To me the answer lies in our own nature. We tend to destroy through our own creations. Its our self creative destruction that is the issue.
Let me know if you have a solution to this.
Looking forward to your response.
Let us take a step back and see where did we go wrong. Today morning I had breakfast with couple of my classmates @ IIM Bangalore course. While having coffee I found that the disposable paper cups used for the coffee had a thin layer of wax and a plastic layer inside the cups making them carcinogenic. Introspecting it further, our own creation to make our lives easier has been the cause for our various diseases or rather destruction. So are we really intelligent enough? Yeah many may argue that we are evolving. I just hope the cost for these learnings are not hard to pay. Or have we already started paying it? Global warming, ozone layer depletion, animal extinctions are few effects of our creation. Isn't the warning sufficient?
What lies next for human kind? Is it the co-existence with mother nature by simple living becoming impossible? Do we have to spoil our Earth (home) so we look for Mars to stay? To me the answer lies in our own nature. We tend to destroy through our own creations. Its our self creative destruction that is the issue.
Let me know if you have a solution to this.
Looking forward to your response.
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