DOES TECHNOLOGY POSE PROFOUND MEANINGS BEYOND THE OBVIOUS?

Abstrak

Technology and social responsibility is an issue of extreme importance for our time, especially as AI scientists and academics expressed deep concern over the potential impact of AI in their open letter of March 2023. Our paper focuses on debates over two basic questions: ‘Is it possible to live without technology in our digital age?’ and ‘Does technology carry deeper profound meanings beyond its application as an instrument for betterment of our life?’ We first present a general observation, then some reflections on efforts to answer these questions by referring to available data in literature, the web, views of individual thinkers expressed in books and academic or popular news outlets. These may reveal our understanding of the impact of technology, our reliance on smart phones and the internet, as well as human reliance on technology to enhance communal responsibility or the lack thereof.