2. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• While sitting on the train I look around, I see people with
their eyes down staring at something, or eyes closed and
just listening.
• I catch ones persons eyes and smile and they immediately
look away as if not wanting have any engagement, even eye
contact.
• This is a typical journey for me on the train, but what are
they looking at or what are they listening to. Everywhere I
look I see people are glued to their mobile phone, or iPAD.

3. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• Listening to music, watching movies or playing
games. They are so engrossed in what they
are doing, almost as if they are in a trance,
bewitched by the technology in their hands.
No one talking just solo journeys with their
tech devices in hand.

4. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• Sometimes I wonder where is the humanity in
having a relationship with technology, because
that is what it is a relationship with technology
similar to relationships between human beings,
except that technology does what you tell it to do
and behaves predictable manner making the
relationship with technology much easier and
satisfying for the recipient.
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5. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• Humans created technology to liberate us from
mundane tasks or tasks with ever increasing
complexities.
• Technology was suppose free us from the
shackles of repetitive tasks so we could have time
for deeper and meaningful relationships with our
loved ones by giving us time to nurture these
relationships.
• Instead the very technology that we have created
has enslaved us.
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6. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
Think about how much technology we have in our lives:
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TV
Mobile phones
Microwaves
Cars
Computers
Internet
Games consoles
The list goes on and on.
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7. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• Some people have become so dependent on
technology that it has become an addiction; just
observe the withdrawal symptoms of someone
who has left their mobile phone at home.
• There is no doubt that technology has helped
mankind in many ways from advances in medical
science to nuclear physics. These are the
exceptions to technology that really do liberate
mankind.
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8. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• There are two types of technology
• 1. Technology to do mundane repetitive tasks or increased
complexities e.g. washing machines, microwaves, Brain
scanners, ventilation machines
• 2. Social technologies – Technologies that keeps us entertained.
Although I have called this social technology, when I talk about
social technology, I mean that people are now socialising with
technology as an ends and not necessarily using it as a means to an
ends of communicating with other human beings. There are of
course exceptions such as the telephone or FaceBook which acts as
an interim technology to facilitate communications between two or
more human beings.
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9. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• So now we have technology that frees us from
repetitive tasks and gives us freedom of time and then
we use that free time to engage with other technology
for entertainment purposes. There seems to be a very
circular mode of behaviour that revolves around
technology.
• This entire obsession with technology makes me
wonder what are the negative connotations of such a
relationship.
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10. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• What are the possible dangers of technology?
Social ineptness:
• With the ever increasing interactivity with technology
comes the loss of human interaction. This in turn can
lead to social ineptness; people are so use to
interacting with technology that they have lost the
social skills needed to interact with other human
beings. Because human beings don’t react in the same
way as technology in a predictable manner
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11. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• Human beings are unpredictable when compared
to technology.
• Without interacting with other human beings we
lose the finer nuances of the skills to interact with
other people and instead our interaction because
one sided as with technology.
• You can’t push buttons with human beings and
expect a certain result. Human beings don’t work
that way.
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12. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• By interacting with technology so much we
lose the underlying understanding that is
needed to form bonds and friendships based
on human factors and not on technology.
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13. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
Becoming technology itself
• With so much interaction with technology we become
a reflection of technology itself and in turn ever so
slightly become technological drones that can only plug
into devices to make sense of the pseudo world of
technology superimposing itself onto reality. The more
we interact with technology the more we become like
technology, if we are not careful our whole lives will
revolve around technology.
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14. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
Loss of creativity
• Because we become one tracked and fixated on technology we lose
our ability to become creative, because we are fully engaged with
technology and the limited actions required to engage with it.
• This type of interaction doesn’t use any of our creativity. By
interacting such a singular manner to non-animate devices that we
are not using any of our imagination which is the bedrock of
creativity.
• Instead we are mesmerised by the sequential logic based system
that has no soul yet enslaves us into its reality of bytes and bits. If
we lose our creativity we lose part of our humanity.
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15. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• In most cases the reason why we engage with social
technology is through boredom, we become bored and
want an instant fix, we want to engage ourselves with
something to remove the feeling of boredom that we
have.
• So we turn to the easiest thing to engage with, which is
technology, by doing this we are not using our
imaginations to come up with creative ways to solve
our boredom issues.
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16. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
• I was lucky that I grew up in a time when there was not
much technology or the technology market was not as
mature as it is today.
• When we played we didn’t; have hand-held games
consoles we had to come up with imaginative and
creative ways to play.
• The very creativity and ingenuity to build these
technologies is now inhibiting our creativity and
preventing us from leading creative and imaginative
lives.
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17. Have We Become enslaved to
Technology
So what can we do to wean ourselves off the addiction to technology?
Technology fasts
• Spend one day just one day a week without your gadgets, no mobile
phones, no laptops and go somewhere where there is natural beauty like
the beach or somewhere green.
• Take a friend or your partner and really spend time with them with no
interference of technology, enjoy the beauty around you, enjoy each
other’s conversations, nurture a deeper relationship with your partner.
• Spend time with nature and reconnect with nature, because this is our
natural state as human beings.
• Once you start doing this you will feel more internal peace and a
reconnection with nature.
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