Benefits and Consequences of Our Technology

Ray Kurzweil predicts that in a few decades we will able to merge with technology that will help us extend our minds and lives past our biological limitations. Also we can create virtual worlds and bodies in our own image that will seem real. This may sound good at first but we must, as Postman had said, recognize the consequences of these actions. Take for example the computer, it started as a revolutionary devise that was very useful in fields like science and math but as it became more abundant it has become less relevant. Now it is a personal usage of almost every household and is not used for great importants as back then.

There are many benefits for this technology but there are also consequence as well. People will take advantage of it like spending more time in the virtual world than the real world that they will loss sight on whats real or not; and will also redefine humanity to a new level. God may even become less relevant since we are able to live more longer and have our own personal heavens in our minds. We will perhaps be so engross to our fake worlds that we will not recognize we are becoming less free from this technology and more controlled like in Brave New World. If this technology is to come, people will be unable to stop it,but are able to control it if they knew the consequences.