5G and the Future of Humanity: Technology is advancing at a scary pace. Just decades after the advent of mobile phones, something impressively big has emerged. You know its name—5G. We can pretend for a moment that this is nothing, and that this, if it is anything, has nothing to do with us, that whatever the “people of the world” decide to do with their rotten lives is none of our business; but it is not their lives they are playing with, it is our lives. And in the end, this very “business” of technocrats and bureaucrats, which looks far away from us, will become everyone’s business. Whatever blessing or curse lies ahead of us, shall be shared equally to all. We may not know all that 5G is and isn’t, but we know enough to talk about it: we know of its scientific grandness, we’ve heard that it is like heaven on earth, we know that it’s over twenty, perhaps fifty times, maybe a thousand times better than anything we’ve ever known or heard about. We can download...
Dear humanity, How did we get to this point? How did we, great humanity, suddenly become slaves to insects and germs? Are we no longer gods and demigods, and lords and overlords? Haven’t we numbered all the stars of heaven, and have reached, with our telescopes, the innermost edges of the universe? We’ve solved the dilemma of communication, have captured entire realities in affordable screens; we have sent our men to the moon, have had our places among the stars, have peered into the dark chambers of the human heart. Still, we remain wretched. We say we are masters of everything but each passing day, everything humiliates and enslaves and rules over us. But we never stop boasting. We call ourselves what we are not and had never been and will never be: we say we are the sweetest apples of Eden, the most enlightened offspring of nature, ...
“Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” Marcus Aurelius The world is full of noise and distractions. If one is not careful, one can get completely drowned in the noise or swept away by its abundance. Some people, unfortunately, are already getting drowned, and they don’t even appear bothered. They see nothing wrong with their state; they’ve not yet recognized the noise as noise. They see it as something entirely different—as something good and desirable. They label it “civilization” “sociability” “blending” and so forth. Great souls, on the other hand, look at the matter differently. They, too, are friends of civilization and of technological advancement, but they are careful not to get drowned. They love to interact with people, but they wouldn’t let such interactions get in the way of their personal growth. They have simply discovered the power of solitude in a world of turbulence and trivialities.
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