Albert Einstein was deeply concerned about the dangers of the new nuclear age development started since 1946 and one famous quote was inspired by his remarks and quoted "I fear the day that technology will surpass humanity. The world will have a generation of idiots." What have we learned after the foresight, not much... Three Mile Island accident(1979), Chernobyl disaster(1986), Fukushima disaster(2011) blaa bla bla...
Smartphone addicts is a good example. What can we do?What's more. Joseph Stiglitz Nobel laureate said in an address at Dhurakij Pundit University in Bangkok lately that many of the innovations that led to productivity increases in manufacturing ended up playing a role in the economic downturn that began in 2008. The result has been years of instability and inequality caused by a slowdown in global employment. It is simply termed as Technological Unemployment. I watched the video and start pondering....
New Age of Technology means Rising Living Standard - A Myth?
Why did it happen?
Who is behind all these?
Where are we heading?
When is our self realization (globally)?
What can we do?
and How ?
"The change in the global rules should also have led us to higher standards, and yet it seems just having the opposite effect." -- Joseph Stiglitz 16th March 2013.
Frankly, I don't have any answers of the above questions. I am seeking... Until then I wholeheartedly live with the quote "緣起性空，觀空放下".
(A bit profound to translate into English, my apology for lack of English proficiency. Copy the words and find out more yourself in web, you may learn a lot )
