Technology brings evolution, not agony

American society, along with most societies around the world, has been programed for centuries to focus on one’s niche or job ever since we evolved into creatures who have the mental capacity to use tools to accomplish jobs that are difficult for the average human. While considering this, the idea of having near future computer technology replace every niche we have created from the blacksmith to the doctor. In fact, much controversy has arisen due to this fear sparking idea. However, these fears can easily die as soon as one looks at the evolution of man in a chronological order and look to what the next step should be, according to our past steps.

What I mean by this is that what humans have done best through our evolutionary paths is make things easier for us by the use of an idea or object, something we named a “tool”. As early civilizations looked up to the bright objects in the sky, much fear was evoked, therefore to settle this problem, humans created religion to explain the unexplainable, something that still happens today in every society around the globe. Then, we needed to move objects much heavier than we could carry across large distances, so we invented the wheel and people stopped carrying things alone. Finally, we wanted a way to connect humans better, and the birth of the internet helped us with this.

We also have the tendency to always need to get better at what we do now, something to be proud of, of course. This explains complex religions to explain more complex questions, cars and trucks to move anything we please, and now the idea that computers have solved more than what we intended on them helping will force us to evolve once more. The idea of technology ‘taking’ our jobs needs to bring a revolution of evolution to our race, we need to rethink the purpose of jobs, governments and economy all together. If humans can create machines to do our hard labor and tedious tasks for us, we can kick back, make sure every human gets their needs and wants met, and finally advance to the great creatures we can be.