Large populations make technology indispensable

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The publication that I bring today to share is based on a sentence based on technology that I recently read and left me reflecting on it, is the following:

"Technology made large populations possible; now large populations make technology indispensable. " Joseph Krutch (Writer)

I will share with you some personal reflections regarding technology and society, which in my mind arose from this sentence. Stay with me until the end, I would like to know your opinion about it.


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"Technology made large populations possible;"

This first part, let's see, if we go back to some millions of years ago, we would understand this phrase from the primitive, those times when our body was covered with hair and we looked more like a primate than a human being today. We were nomads, wandering from one place to another while we were looking for food.

But everything began to change when natural technology began to be used to facilitate some basic processes such as feeding and heating, and this was the use of fire. Of course, this is not an invention of man, our ancestors realized that the use of this element(fire) could help them to cook food and also provide them with some security in the face of inclement weather. So little by little they organized themselves into a society, that group of people who communed in a specific place and who were going to need fire to make their lives easier, and it would be like that forever, or at least it still is.

With time, certain conditions were created so that instead of going out to hunt, they could keep the animals locked up and even raise them, using fences for this, a very basic technology that they later discovered could work for them to have food on hand.So, why be a nomad when I have everything close by? don't you think?

Time evolved, in the same way populations were created that made this rudimentary technology become more than necessary. Later the wheel was created, another great advance in technology, still used, and that it is unimaginable a world if this invention, with all its different forms. This allowed them to move further, to move heavier objects, with fewer people, and thus to build large villages. It was not necessary to leave that place of comfort, unless something from another space was needed, as is the case today.

"Now large populations make technology indispensable."

With this second part of the sentence, I conclude. Is it true?
I particularly think so, can you imagine a world without the Internet? difficult, right?, although the Internet has allowed a more globalized world, each country gives a certain use to it, but our society is increasingly dependent on technology, is a reality. We have made it indispensable, without a doubt.

The same thing happened in the industrial revolution, with the establishment of mass production companies of practically everything, people were abandoning the fields, until it becomes more and more necessary and indispensable the facility that production technology gives us... at least that is my appreciation.

Do you have anything to say about this?

I would like to know if you share my point of view, or if it is totally different, I would also respect it.

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It seems to me that the phrase is adjusted to reality. In the beginning, the technology, those rudimentary but important advances that you describe made us leave the nomadic lifestyle, which allowed us to create settlements that later became cities; but with this development we became more dependent on technology, because it was necessary to cover the needs of more and more people in the same place. So now really large populations make technology indispensable.

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It is literal, it is indispensable, it is almost impossible to live without much of the technology that exists today, we have become very independent. Thank you very much for your comment.

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I think that countries like India have a gigantic potential due to its large population, and is they will surely dominate the trending very soon of everything technological in the world, it is inevitable and I am sure that this will give prominence and a positive resurgence to the countries of the 3rd world, we are about to have our countries become fashionable, well I see it that way.

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It's a point of view, respectable. I think that rather our developing countries are used to test these new technologies. However, it may be that after passing this current reality, they are likely to have a momentum, at least I hope so.

Thank you for your comment.

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Hello @josevas217.

There is no doubt that large populations contribute as much to technological progress as they do to the use of that same technology, since a technology is useless if it is not used by the masses.

Greetings and thanks for your valuable contribution.

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The massification is what gives them the real impact, you are right.
Thank you very much for your comment.

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This is definitely an argument for aviation. It helps explain to traditional thinking minds why isolated 3rd world economies can quickly and easily become 1rst ones. Well, in terms of scaled development.

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Hi @machnbirdsparo
There is potential for Third World countries to become great, but it does not happen.
I think the political plays a fundamental role in this.

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Great post @josevas217.

"but our society is increasingly dependent on technology, is a reality. We have made it indispensable"

This reminds me of this article I read on Ontological Design. The article states, “we design our tools, and then they design us in return.”

In reference to technology, I sort of think about it as a technological feedback loop. As if the technology is indistinguishable from ourselves, making it "indispensable" because it is part of us.

Again, great post!

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Hi @fijimermaid
Seeing technology as a loop is an interesting way of looking at it.
Because it certainly has an impact on us, while we are permanently modifying it.
Thank you for commenting

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Greetings friend @josevas217, good work, currently we use any aspect or technological tool of the most normal, that is, the capacity for amazement is increasingly less, this is because they are part of our lives, an aspect that we have made it intrinsic to our activities, extraordinary the phrase that inspired you for this publication, as it is very true, that is, as you express in your title, large populations make technology indispensable. Successes friend.
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Thank you for commenting.
And yes, looking at history, reviewing it just a little bit we realize these changes that have occurred and the impact on our lives.

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I think the title of the post says it all... The bigger the population, the more indispensable the technology becomes. But one of the biggest problems is to define how the technology will be used in favor of people.

Great post, @josevas217.

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According to what I see, what is created is for the benefit of all, but it turns out that it is not always so, in fact, it is something that has to be defined.

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Hello friend @josevas217

Technology today, as you say, is fundamental for everyone. Without the internet, how can we communicate with our loved ones, at least those of us who are far away, in the case of migrants? In times of pandemic it would be impossible to work from home unless it is manually, humans have given it significant value. Of course, this does not mean that we cannot live without the internet, if our ancestors did it we could do it too, but the truth is that nobody would want to go back to that time.

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Definitely, nobody wants to go back to something primitive, just thinking about it seems crazy. Although there are aboriginal tribes that still live without this type of technology, of course, they don't need it because they have never tried it.
Thenk you for comment @franyeligonzalez

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