Yeah, I would lean on the pessimistic (I would call it realistic) side of it. For example, the internet literally holds most of human knowledge, yet we still have people who believe the Earth is flat, or that we use 10% of our brain. A quick Google search answers that question, but no, some people still believe we have 5 senses. Mind you, the 5 senses thing was written by Aristotle, so I’m pretty sure that if, after about 2,000 years of technological development, we as humans still believe what Aristotle said, we are the problem. That’s why I believe no technology will ever solve our problems.
I’m not saying that all humans ever won’t be able to control their desire, but that, to achieve it, what should change is the way society interacts with knowledge, not the technology that spreads it.
Lack of compassion \to Problems. If we had compassion for all life, we wouldn’t be cultivating in a frenzy; if we had compassion we would share; if we had compassion there wouldn’t be organized crime; if we had compassion we would rule justly; we have compassion \to medicine.
You’re clearly not playing fair here. Yes, okay, it can be a lack of compassion, and it is—but it’s also boundless desires, you can’t deny that. I was too narrow with my claim that problems only came from boundless desires, but they do still play a role in them. What I’m saying now is that if humans want bad things to happen, technology won’t solve that, since we are the problem and we use the technology. Technology is just a tool; it accentuates what’s already there.
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