The Modern Technology Is Turning Humans Into Robots
Because of the degree of automated control involved in our lives, I think the contemporary modernity is turning humans into robots because of the two essential reasons: Firstly, we have to follow the chain of repetitive and emotionless string of actions every single day.
Really, we just go through our days without giving any thoughts to what we are doing or being exposed. Recently, when I called the bank, I realized that it’s really hard to say whether the call-center operator is robot or human at first. The modern world makes us behave as robots, conditioned and programmed as such. Similarly, the rigid school/work schedule, predetermined and timed tasks make us forget how to feel like a human. Just like our tasks, our emotions are also prescribed. We don’t have to worry about what to feel. For example, if a robot is really beneficial in doing some task, it continues to be used, even upgraded to bring more profit. Otherwise, they are just plugged out from their chargers and thrown away.
No tolerance. As we are in the 21st century dehumanization process, it is necessary to see how fast we are mimicking robots. As humans, we are under the control of a digital ecosystem. When we undergo any kind of negative transformation or simply unable to do what we are asked to do routinely, the system turns on us in disgust, indignation and humiliation. Professor gives low grade to student, boss gets angry to his worker or company penalizes the worker with fine. Nobody cares about the human’s feelings what connects them to real world. They are our charges. Once we lose them, gradually our human parts vanishes and we’re only left with mechanical/robotic part. Secondly, we are losing human-to-human contact and communication ability and moving into more robotic communication way. Robots can communicate like robot Sophia. How? Their communication ability is limited with the words they are given when they are programmed. We are exactly like this, trying to fit ourselves within 140-characters. What’s worse is that we are losing our freedom to express ourselves in any way we want, for example with autocorrect mode on phones without any originality, care or thoughtfulness which are the hallmarks of human communication.
Similarly, we only aim to reach the result that we want to say within the shortest possible way just like robots that are programmed to follow a script quickly providing information. We’ve already adapted IFTTT (if this, then that) process that Robots are designed to use and that I learned in my psychology class. Namely, we are automating our expressions, feelings. In my phone, I’ve already added lots of shortcuts for very common phrases like “Fine, what about you?”, “I am so sorry”, not to waste time when talking with my friends on Whatsapp. Do they really reflect what I feel like? Not possibly. Therefore, when we really meet with someone and talk face-to-face, we are not able to grasp deep humanistic feelings like empathy, sympathy, pity or affection that the person trying to show us. No worry, though. There will be no need soon as human communication is devolving and becoming more botified/robotic.
