In today’s fast paced world, everybody wants the best things in their life be a sprawling home, the most technologically advanced car,  latest gadgets and many more to make their life simple and AUTOMATED!!. Everything in our life from the smallest of things to the International Space Station is made up of technology  which makes our all tedious tasks (as we say in our times), simpler or to be said again, AUTOMATED! 
But really are we are the masters of our own willfully created technology or  have we just become  slaves to our own creations?
 People often make mistakes by relating technology to  computer related stuff  like hardware, software,or to mundane lines of codes, but it is for sure that the area we think about today is TECHNOLOGY, perhaps the last two decades in our country has been a  TECHNOLOGICALLY driven one

 .And to become more advanced nations, every country in the world is trying to better their results in technological usage by simply upgrading it, making it work faster, finding ways to make the same technology work in different ways but to get the same outcome or result…or to say INNOVATING.

 From the beginning, the advancement of  human race is  technology driven. For e.g. The spark created by banging two stones, using them as weapons, round stones as wheels and the list goes on and on.
There is a  saying  “NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL INVENTIONS” which compels human beings to find out ways to overcome  obstacles laid down during evolution, but why has this saying  always been connected to technology?

  Why is  “technology” the driving force of our entire species?
Technology simplifies our lives, our day-to-day work and keeps us safely away from the mundane tasks that we dread, but does it imply that Technology makes us more intelligent by not doing the things which were supposed to be done by us, which might bring out new ways to do it and also new outcomes or to use a better word for it, is RESULT, might be achieved.

 But we let the “set things” or say “tech” to do it just for the ease of not doing it ourselves , or to say not wasting our “precious” time on it by doing it.

 Really?Our time is wasted in doing the things which could be done by a machine more efficiently and in small span of time. Alright, I also give in to the point that some things are more efficiently done by a machine than a human, but what the heck, humans again has created that machine giving in countless time just to make it functional and bringing it out to the whole species to make use of it so that the countless hours required to that piece of work can be reduced. But does this indicate that doing that piece of work, has to be done the same manner or the way the machine does it?  Or are there other alternate ways to do that kind or work which might lead to different outcomes or results.
Sadly, this has become the way of our life that we don’t bother to look upon the steps of doing a piece or work rather than focus on an outcome or better to say RESULT. If the desired result is achieved then everything’s fine and if not then we try it again and again and don’t see what’s actually going wrong in there. We don’t even try to take up that task, as it is mundane (our perception) for us and work it out in a different way to achieve the result which might be better or effective than the previous one. We just sit there blindly, helplessly and wait for the technology to solve that for us.
Have we not become the slaves of the technology that we have created to simplify our lives?
Have we become too dependent on technology that we can’t move a bit without it?
Have we become too blunt, dull, helpless, lazy and blind, that we can’t survive without it?
YES WE HAVE!
Because we need technology to get us the information we need, when we need it. Over the years, we have blended or to say moulded our lifestyles around technology that it cannot be removed or extracted out of our way of living. We do numerous tasks everyday be it very tiny, negligible or very important but without technology at our disposal we are just helpless beings. We do a lot of things like making calls, texting; video calling, internet surfing etc. and we do in manner that we have put in an auto-pilot mode!
Automating things and forgetting about is one different thing but to make our life more and more simple, we are giving the power of our minds to the machines so that, it might work in the way we want it to work. But will it really work in the way we want it to be or will it think in its own way like a sentient species of its kind. As we humans wage wars overs petty differences and kill thousands of ourselves just to make ourselves right….In our own way?  Will this self –conscious piece of tech might become our greatest threat as we have given it power of the human mind which in-turn make human kind its slave or wipe out completely. Numerous movies and video games have been made to give human beings the hint of the horror of what lies beyond!!
Aren’t we ourselves becoming or have become cyborgs in first place?
My idea of writing this article was  to explain that we make use of the technology as a stepping stone, like a side assistant and not as the crutch to the human kind to discover new and unique ways to enhance technology and human kind. Or keeping it in simple words “STAYING HUMAN”
Compiled and written by:-
Aditya chaturvedi