No Technology for The Poor

In a world so large and progressive, it sometimes seems difficult to realize how the technology of the world has consumed our lives. But it makes you wonder, do we control technology, or has technology grown so much that it now controls us?

Even as you read this, you happen to be using a computer or smartphone, only to later transcend to a different form of technology before retiring at the end of each day. 

Before reading this, did you check your email, change your Facebook status or at a friend on Twitter? 

The fact that this article is on the internet rather than in a newspaper or magazine demonstrates the sheer focus of technology, shown by the members of the first world. 

At the moment over 300 million people are using the social networking phenomenon Facebook. Such news may not be surprising to you, yet consider that only four percent of the world’s population have computers. Then consider that only 65 percent of those people have internet. Now are you surprised. In fact the other 96 percent of the world’s population have no computers nor smart-phones, no internet nor money for such objects. 

So if 96 percent of the world has no computers and the 4 percent of us which do cannot detach ourselves from them, what is the world to do? Are we to continue our internet expansion or is something to be done?

Something that all specialists agree upon, technological progress is simply dawning. In a world in which we are controlled by the societies of Facebook and Myspace, how can we ever expect to change? The simple answer to this gargantuan question is unknown. Unless specialists release a statement showing how to solve such a global issue, we are left to continue. What changes can we make in order to insure international technological equality? None! 

So until a solution is proved, we will continue to send our e-mails and obsess ourselves with technology. If you were looking for an answer to IT’s control over us, you must wait ever so patiently until we are enlightened. Make sure that you don’t miss such a grand resolution. When a solution is made, will you solve the problem or will you continue? How easy would it be to cancel your Facebook and e-mail account. 

Would you sacrifice technologies hold, in order to help the other 96 percent? 

How far would you go to save our planet?