Sunday, February 14, 2016

Can technology make a better world?

What is technology? In my opinion, technology is the tool we create and use in order to solve a problem.

I think this is the important point, because a tool can not be good or bad. Making a simple example: a pen is created with the aim of writing. But as I said before, tools are used by humans, and is the use we make that make the difference between a good action and a bad one. Imagine someone uses a pen to kill someone. In this case everybody would agree that the murder is assassin's fault and not pen's fault. I think it happens the same with all the other technologies we have invented.

In conclusion, technology doesn't make our world better or worse, it only give us, human beings, more power to do the good or the evil. So the real problem is inside of us, it has no sense to look outside and blame the murderer's knife, because it only kills it the murderer uses it as a killer weapon.