Although “humans” have an innate desire to progress and evolve, the concept of humanity is being challenged by rapidly advancing technology due to the fear of becoming a post human society. However, it can be noted that rather than technology making future generations less human, it executes the contrary by illuminating the feature that defines it: the connections made to each other and the universe. By utilizing technology as a catalyst for progressive change, humans have advanced and developed alongside these tools. Emerging into complex and diverse societies that exemplify these unequivocal bonds— both tangible and abstract— these influences of technology serve to be a crucial part of what truly separates the human race as an innovative,
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Even Neo-Luddites, a people who are weary on the expansion of the dependence of machinery, address that “technology is intrinsic to human creativity and culture,” (Glendinning 84). Innovations in technology are developed by humans, for humans, and are created with the divine purpose of extending the average human capacity to much greater lengths. This is because tools “for thousands and thousands of years, [have] been a physical modification of self… extend[ing] our physical selves” to excel in ways our bodies were not capable of; however, now humanity is “addressed with an extension of the mental self,” persisting us to communicate, think, and function differently (Case). Tools ranging from the first ignition of fire to recent expansions within computational devices have mirrored both the physical and mental evolution of mankind; devices cannot progress on their own, however it is the implementation of these tools that allows humanity to expand. In a way, modern technology is built in the form of man, with its numerical coding reflecting the genes of its creator; artificial intelligence and data bases have allowed technology to play a greater role in the transcendence of the human intellect and perform logic based routines similar to human cognition. This notion is also reflected in the concept that the body itself serves as “the net result of thousands of years of sedimented evolutionary history,” with its environment—including the progression of technology—affecting “human behaviors at every level of thought and action,” ( Hayles 288). Thus the creation affects the creator, allowing a greater bond to grow between man and machine that furthers the evolution of mankind by integrating technology and humanity into an interdependent society, where one thrives upon the other’s
Even Neo-Luddites, a people who are weary on the expansion of the dependence of machinery, address that “technology is intrinsic to human creativity and culture,” (Glendinning 84). Innovations in technology are developed by humans, for humans, and are created with the divine purpose of extending the average human capacity to much greater lengths. This is because tools “for thousands and thousands of years, [have] been a physical modification of self… extend[ing] our physical selves” to excel in ways our bodies were not capable of; however, now humanity is “addressed with an extension of the mental self,” persisting us to communicate, think, and function differently (Case). Tools ranging from the first ignition of fire to recent expansions within computational devices have mirrored both the physical and mental evolution of mankind; devices cannot progress on their own, however it is the implementation of these tools that allows humanity to expand. In a way, modern technology is built in the form of man, with its numerical coding reflecting the genes of its creator; artificial intelligence and data bases have allowed technology to play a greater role in the transcendence of the human intellect and perform logic based routines similar to human cognition. This notion is also reflected in the concept that the body itself serves as “the net result of thousands of years of sedimented evolutionary history,” with its environment—including the progression of technology—affecting “human behaviors at every level of thought and action,” ( Hayles 288). Thus the creation affects the creator, allowing a greater bond to grow between man and machine that furthers the evolution of mankind by integrating technology and humanity into an interdependent society, where one thrives upon the other’s