Are we heading in the right direction?
2020 is nearly over. What a year it was. Since January of this year, events were curated like it was done by a sophisticated Instagram algorithm. From political events to COVID-19 and things in between, this led me to re-question our situation and ask if we are heading in the right path or have we drifted away to something that seems to be somehow darker ?
The events that we have all witnessed make me rewind back to the 1920’s through 1950’s era. It was all chaos, epidemies and wars were the atmosphere back then. That exact situation is replicating itself this year yet with a twist.
Today, it is all about technological advancements. That’s why tech leaders have rushed to try and find solutions for the coronavirus pandemic that can let us live our lives away from contamination. Doctors too and pharmaceutical teams are working around the clock to find a vaccine that’s efficient, cheap to reproduce and effective on the long term. This is all well and good, but there are other things that are happening in the background that are igniting our universe’s transformation.
Today, we see people change in behavior. People are becoming more and more aware of the health hazard that’s surrounding us. That’s why we find people from different backgrounds that are afraid to interact with each others. Work has become stressful, education and other daily tasks too. People have become always stressful about being in proximity to a Covid patient or touching a surface that the former have already touched.
This fact have pushed people to become more and more distanced from others, a fact that also led people to act blinded in front of others who are living an urgent situations. As a result, people became arrogant. They are eschewing basic principles in the name of the pandemic.
We are also witnessing the degradation of relations between different countries and the use of highly advanced tech in order to orient opinions and manipulate people to individuals’ will.
We see a world that’s going to be concentrated more on individualism, work-from-home and manipulating technology. Is it the way we want things to go ? For sure, that’s not.
We are in a huge need to concentrate on developing new tech and researching new ways on how to live and adapt with such pandemics without separating human beings from each others, because human interaction is more valuable that software-based relations. We need to do our best to overcome situations like this to bring back cheerful vibes and normal life and not to create an augmented reality version of Blackmirror.
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