The Biggest Danger of Technology Has Nothing to Do With AI
Technology is neither good nor bad by itself; its impact depends on the person using it. When it replaces independent thinking, confidence, and real-life abilities, it becomes a crutch instead of a source of progress. True advancement requires human maturity to grow alongside technological power. Without inner responsibility, every new innovation risks amplifying the same old weaknesses instead of creating a better future.
This summary is AI-generated. Please read the full article for complete understanding.
Questioner: Good afternoon, sir. Sir, I am Kiran Mehata. Sir, because of the lockdown from the past two years, we have been rigorously using cell phones or smartphones or laptops way too much from 2020. So, sir, we are addicted to it. Now addiction is one problem, but the other is like we have low self-esteem due to it, and we have lost our patience, anger issues. So, how to overcome all of them?
Acharya Prashant: What is the relation that you see? How is self-esteem lowered because of cell phone or laptop use?
Questioner: Sir, like if you want to talk to people, we text them, we message them on social media. But when we meet them in person, we are very introverted, or we fear to talk to them, like even to ask “how are you?” Like even if the teacher asks something like X, Y, Z, we want to search the question and we want to answer. We don’t know it. That is a habit of why we have been using laptops, and now we’re used to searching and answering. Now that’s all gone.
