Machines and the age of tyranny

According to many novels and movies, the future has formed the greater part of science-fiction stories and some movies have even tackled man’s future relation with scientific products that he had been creating and developing. Some stories even predicted machines mutiny and revolt against their makers, turning them into slaves to serve robots. Well, it seems that this particular part of the future has already started. We all notice how smart phones are taking over our lives. It is enough to refer to how hysteric we would be if we lose that tiny machine we all carry in our pockets.

For years now, people have been talking about the domination of social media networks on people’s minds and behavior, saying that most of them have become addicted to accessing those sites through various devices connected to them. A small phone, which is a complicated device, includes other integrated devices and machines such as cameras, recorders, typewriters, TV transmission, calculators, GPS etc. those man-made machines have been affecting our ideas and beliefs and making us do things we have never done before. Mobile phone cameras have managed to violate the privacy of people who are getting keen on uploading photos of their excursions, food, tours and purchases.

Speaking about people’s passion with photography, cameras control them and are forming their awareness, feelings and behavior. A caricature appeared a few years ago showing someone drowning and shouting for help while the people on the beach are busy recording what is happening on their mobile phones. A few days ago, this imaginative caricature turned into a bitter reality revealing our subjection to this machine.

Before falling to the ground from the edge of the balcony, a maid kept asking another woman, who was busy recording the incident all the way till she landed to her fate, for help. I will conclude with this joke about a young man who decides to get married and tells his mother about his intention to propose to a certain girl. “Forget about her,” the mother replied. “Her mother is so evil. She has never liked me on Instagram. You better propose to (X) because her mother is so nice and always re-tweets my tweets!”

— Translated by Kuwait Times

people have been talking about the domination of social media networks on people’s minds and behavior