How can technology become a positive tool in the hands of human beings?

Question from the Internet:

“Is technology developing too rapidly for human utilization so that strict controls are needed to guide its growth?”

I do not think we need to control technological development. Technology is a tool, and the better tools we have, the better we can cater to our necessities and solve problems.

The problem we have is not with technology.

The problem is with the user, with human beings.

More precisely, the problem is with our intentions and our goals.

By default, we are driven by a 100% self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic, and exploitative nature. We all try to selfishly accumulate and consume everything we can for ourselves. We define ourselves by raising our self above others; thus, all our activities are based on comparisons to others and ruthless competition. And our greatest pleasure — admittedly or not — comes from succeeding at the expense of others.

This is why our technology — like everything else — is also used to control, manipulate, exploit, defeat, and destroy others.

The moment we recognize the instinctively destructive operating software in us and develop a true and irrepressible need to change and further develop ourselves, together, we can acquire intentions and goals that would make technology our positive and constructive tool with which we can build a real-life “Garden of Eden” here and now.