The Generational Dangers Of Technology
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Thanks To Technology, The Next Generation Will Face Problems We've Never Seen Before

What adversities could the generation after us face and why would these adversities be their own creation.

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Thanks To Technology, The Next Generation Will Face Problems We've Never Seen Before

Like all other species, we strive for comfort. Sometimes we get that by sleeping in late, Sometimes, donuts. Sometimes, going to the gym. But what would comfort be for the next generation? How is their comfort the very thing that we dread as a society?

To start, we are getting exponentially advanced in technological aspects every minute of the day. Something new pops up basically every day now. But as we become advanced, we also become lousy. Now I'm all for self-driving cars and robots that wash dishes for us. It makes life easier on us. I'm rather concerned about the way we used to live in the late 20th century to the early 21st century.

After 2010, we have seen a spike in activities that require minimal human interaction or socializing. Activities such as video games, messaging apps, dating apps, heck even realtor apps are used now to make our lives easier. But with easy comes a troubling crisis, the crisis of a nonfunctional life. There was a movie released in the late 2000s, a classic, "Wall-E." It showed the possibility of our race being obese, irrelevant, and useless to the progress of humanity! Now I loved the movie but it had a very serious message. The very machines we create for our comfort and for our ease will one day make us practically useless.

The point I'm getting to is that as we grow, as generations come to be, we are forgetting the essence of bonding with our kin, our world. We are growing, holistically, into an individualistic society. Not that that is a bad thing in some cases, but it is becoming to a point where if I wanted to take a walk in the park I would have to look at my schedule to work things around. Time management plays a factor here but there is only so much management to be done.

Back in the 2000s, I remember going to the park with my family and seeing kids playing there. I saw people going to the gyms (basketball) and playing ball there. I saw kids biking outside and parents enjoying the weather and each other's company. But today, kids kind of have to be sidelined because ends need to be met first then spending time with kids.

We are, an intelligent species, given the power to dominate over this world, and yet we are looking into the screens for 8 to 12 hours a day, looking like zombies when we come home and drinking till 5 in the morning. That is not a way of living.

And if you seem to have a problem with me commenting on your way of living, then so be it. I will rather be brutally honest and repulsive than be all sugar coated and sweet and pleasing.

Our next generation needs to learn of a life without technology besides them 24/7, then only will they be able to appreciate all that this world has to offer. You talk about global warming, deforestation, water being too hot. If our kids don't know about the beauty, the serenity these things are taking away from us, how will they care?!

I hope this makes some sense and helps us reach out to the next generation and help them understand the value of life in a world we have taken for granted all these millenniums.

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