The Dangers of Technology

    As the expansion of technology progresses, I predict that our social interactions shall decrease drastically because of both our curiosity and our obsession with artificial intelligence. It was mentioned in class that throughout history children made an object entertaining simply through their imagination and their perception of it, but new devices have been introduced to our youngest generation, and this new technology communicates information to the child rather than the child projecting their desires and imagination on the object. If technology continues to be produced at this exponential rate, we will have programs that we can manipulate to create our desired friend, family, or spouse which will in turn cause us to become antisocial and neglect to socialize and interact with each other because their faults will be heightened when compared to our “perfect” friend that is made up of digital codes and wiring. This phenomena of becoming antisocial due to technology was mentioned in Bowling Alone. Unfortunately, there is a positive correlation between depression and lack of socialization which will become more and more relevant as we spend an increasing amount of time with artificial intelligence and a decreasing amount of time with other people. As a result of the lack of socializing, jobs that are at places such as clubs, the movies, and community centers will become nonexistent, therefore, increasing the unemployed population as well as depression. In conclusion, our mental health is at risk every time that we we discover or invent a new program, every time that we spend another hour watching television, and every time that we are not sharing company with another person.