While I was
listening to Peter Diamandis in his lecture about “Abundance is our future” I
felt that he was like trying to sell technology to us. Not a specific device, but
the whole thing. As if technology was only one product. I felt this because he
was naming all the improvements, progresses and advances that technology has
given to us. For a while, I thought that he was trying to say "keep on
buying technology!" but with other words, of course.
On the
other hand, I cannot ignore the great facts and figures that he presented to
us. His arguments were really convincing and I do agree with him when he says
that technology has helped us a lot. It was good to know, for example, that the
meaning and the criteria for poverty had changed, but it would have been much
better to know that the amount of poor people have diminished thanks to
technology. But I don´t remember listening about the counter part of this
progress. What about the enormous natural sacrifices that the Earth is doing
for this progress? Or what about the huge amount of garbage that technology
produces? What about the huge amount of money that some few people are
making thanks to technology? Finally, Who is paying for all this progress? When I was asking to myself about this, it was
when I felt/thought that he was trying to sell something, just like on a TV advertisement,
because he was only mentioning the good things, everything was marvelous with
his "product" and I don´t think the reality is that beautiful.
Do you
agree with me?
Do you
think he was a good lecturer? What would have made his lecture better?
What did
you feel/think while listening to him?
I agree. Diamandis' vision is too wide and it looks like a big and beautiful dream, but unfortunately, it is not. I asked myself lots of questions regarding poor countries and their shocking realities. Although I do believe that technology has given a lot of advances and options to get a better life, it is difficult to adapt our lives in such fast way to every single innovation, not in terms of usage of devices, but in economic terms. Usually, technology devises cost more than the money we make, and it is difficult to catch up with every tech advance. Of course he was selling technology, and it sounded pretty, but as you said, Earth, nature, and also our wallets, are the ones who make the sacrifices.
ReplyDeleteI also agree. Technology is a dangerous tool for us if we don't know how to use it in a positive way. As humans, we try to see the good side of things; however, there's a dark part in all these. As you said, I think he was trying to sell technology, and I didn't like it.
ReplyDeleteLot of people try to buy expensive cars, or expensive cell phones even if they don't live in good houses. And with that, I'm referring to the fact that some of them prefer to have technology instead of so many things that are necessary nowadays.
Besides, not all people can access to that technology. It's creating a gap between rich and poor people. Who would want that?
I completely agree as well. Technology is a great and awesome tool to make our lives easier and more confortable; nevertheless, earth has been suffering the consequences. Sometimes I think that people don't care about it; people just care about having developing devices and having a better life as a product of technology. This process goes too fast than we don't realize what we are losing and gaining; it is going too fast that we take for granted that life is like this and it has to be like this. Technology is not enough if we really want to improve our society, care our planet, and have a good life.
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