If I ruled the world people would have to put a limit on mechanical ingenuity and robotic advancement.
Why? Because if I ruled the world, the last thing I would want to deal with would be a robot revolution. We’ve all seen that trilogy. It does not end well for humanity. We either end up dead, hooked up to power plants or turn into rag tag revolutionaries with bad hygiene.
Now I will start off by saying I am not against limiting humanity’s creativity or cutting off its reach into the future. I am all for hovercrafts, teleportation pads and bacon-flavored slurpies, but when it comes to putting artificial intelligence on steroids and building robots in our likeness, that is where I draw the line. There is no way I am going to let the descendant of my toaster oven vaporize me because it feels underappreciated.
Does anyone ever wonder: Are we moving too fast?
Look at where we are today versus when we were in high school. For the older students out there: Remember in high school when the RAZR cell phone was the hottest item hidden in our backpack? Remember marveling at the graphics of “Super Mario 64” and thinking that a rumble pak was the greatest accessory any true gamer could have? I am not saying any of the advances we have already seen over our short lives is a bad thing, but how are we expected to keep up?
Right on schedule, the iPhone 4S is just a handful of weeks from being released, with the iPhone 5 not far behind, and you know the iPhone 6 is probably in development. With Apple products alone we cannot keep up, not to mention all of the other tech companies that start spitting out similar devices not long after Apple crosses the next tech boundary first.
Before you know it, we will be living in glass bubbles with our brains connected to wires and living in virtual realities to feel better about ourselves. Probably the robots won’t have to create Terminators to take us out. All they have to do is create iWorld and we’ll just sit back and let them take over.
And for the record, I still do not understand how the Matrix could really work. My laptop freezes up every time I try to watch even the simplest Rebecca Black music video, so how are we to expect a computer to handle thousands of minds at once without getting the spinning beach ball of death?
So what is my solution to this tech frenzy with possible apocalyptic repercussions?
It is simple: unplug. For just a day or two, turn off the laptop, shut off the phone, lock up the iPod and switch off the television (if you still watch it and not Hulu, that is).
There is nothing wrong with unplugging for a little while. There is nothing wrong with being unreachable. Twitter, Facebook, your blog and the next episode of the “New Girl” will still be there when you turn everything back on.
Instead of being in a state of constant communication, constant updating and constant streaming, you should take a break and a breath. God doesn’t like it when you’re trying to have your quiet time while simultaneously updating your Twitter with your favorite verse of the day.
