The last one: Our Brains Aren't Keeping Up

Picture this; You're walking down the street and all the sudden there's a sign for a family member you'd lost but you never said anything about it to the sign company, and you become so mad you tear down the sign. Does this sound like something you want? Then why do you still sit idly allowing our technology to outgrow our brains? How is tech doing this you might ask, well as people we have as Prof. Wilson puts it "We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology." What he means is that our brains only develop so much where technology can be infinitely improved, we still get angry and confused unlike computers who are based on numbers and logic that thrive off of those so called paleolithic emotions.

Now clearly this can be upsetting realizing that your technology is using you more than you're using it, but what can we do about it? In my personal opinion there is a million things as humans we can improve on, like how we fight against segregation by using segregation, if someone likes this president they can't be around those who dislike him without an argument starting up. As humans we should learn to accept one another without focusing on differences and unite as one planet entirely to keep ourselves from getting too far ahead of the electronic curve so to speak.

To be honest I believe that as humanity the only way we can continue as a species we need to unite and put aside our differences and I know that this an age old idea but it isn't too late to start coming together to fix whats been done.

Citations:
Harris, Tristan. "Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology." NY Times, 5 Dec.
     2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/digital-technology-brain.html.
     Accessed 16 Dec. 2019.


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