Can technology solve our growing problems?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 21, 2022

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Question from the Internet?

“Are there any daily problems that still exist you wish can be solved with the use of technology?”

We are revealing more and more that we cannot solve our problems through technology. Humanity has extremely advanced technology. We could make the world a real-life “Garden of Eden” for everybody with what we already have.

There is technology to combat water shortages, we can get energy from renewable resources, medicine has amazing abilities, and we can grow food even on the balcony of our houses.

Our problem is not with technology but with how we use technology. After all, technology, even the most advanced one, is simply a tool in the hands of people. What results we achieve with technology depends on how and with what goals and intentions we use it.

And so far, as a result of blindly following our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative urges, we have been using technology exclusively for weapons against each other and to accumulate ever-growing selfish profit for ourselves — at the expense of others. This is true to everything we ever invented or created, from medicines to food products and toys for children, not to mention the technology that can be used to control, manipulate, exploit or destroy others and the world.

We are not causing our problems due to technology; we are causing our problems as a result of how and with what intentions we use technology. Thus technology cannot help us solve our problems only if we first change, further develop ourselves and how and with what intentions we exist and use anything we have.

And that requires a conscious recognition that the root cause of all the problems humanity has ever faced and is facing today is within us. Then we also have to develop a true and irrepressible need and desire to change and “upgrade” ourselves above and against our instincts.

Only then can we start the actual self-changing and self-developing process — with the help of a special, purposeful and practical educational method — so instead of destructive cancer cells, we all become healthy, mutually responsible and mutually complementing cells of the same, closed, integrated and living organism that is Humanity with Nature.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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