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Look at domesticated animals - pets - and how their inability to fend for themselves has rendered them largely obese, lazy, dependent, and less curious. In this sense: Are humans becoming domesticated by technology? Ian Manheimer


Answer

Kigge Hvid: Hi Ian. I do not know, I do understand what you mean. When it is about wild animals, then it is a question whether that the animals you mention, actually have become domestic animals. We are domestic animals, we actually been that through our whole history, in any case a very, very long time back. The human is a domestic animal, if we can put it like that. So does technology influence that? Yes somewhere the technology is part of making people lazier, more indolent, more apathetic. Somewhere else technology actually is part of making people more active, more outgoing, more engaged and more linked to each other. I do not think there is a straightforward answer to your question. But of course there is a risk, a risk that can be opposed by the individual. Communities or larger communities can also fight it, this could be governments etc. etc. But there is a risk for both parts, which is part of what we have to live with. I think the advantages with our new technology are much, much bigger then the disadvantages. In some way I also think your question gives the impression that we cannot influence technology. We can influence the technology. Gives the impression that we cannot decide ourselves how the technology can be used. We have the possibility to deselect the technology; we can choose some parts of the technology and ignore others. Sometimes I think your question also sounds like “huh, we can not do anything about it ourselves” Of course we can, you have a choice yourself.