” TECHOLOGY is a FORCED OBSESSION “
Man has always been curious about Nature and the secrets and the potential it held to make his five senses more luxurious. His curiosity resulted in Science which studied and continues to study properties of Nature and use it to our advantage. Technology is a development of materials using the Laws of Nature discovered by Science by which we make our lives theoretically luxurious. I call it theoretically because in practice every technology has its own disadvantages which mean simply SIDE EFFECTS. These side effects of each technology are problems which man has sought to solve through development of more and more technology but not disbanding the earlier ones. So naturally problems are NATURAL to our world.
However my thought here is not about the problems but how this technology is amalgamated into the society which we live in. It is a stage by stage process and not like dumping of scrap all of a sudden by developed countries into developing countries territories. Every technology has a lot of work behind it. It may be adventure, spending of huge economic resources, human labour by the developer etc. So the developer would naturally be more psychologically bonded to his new creation and so he demands more. The only class which are in a position to satisfy the developer is the rich class that of Corporate companies or Other rich persons. Naturally new technologies after being developed will be tried by the rich and if they are satisfied with their experiences, Practically the technology is ready to take off into the society. But the high costs prevent it from the reach of the middle and low classes. So the Business Classes see a great Market in future and start investing in the technology to lower its costs down. As the lower classes in the hierarchy of class structure have a tendency to imitate the rich classes in terms of luxury if they raise their incomes, the lowering of the cost of that technology will create a great demand among the middle classes. Upto this stage the technology gets amalgamated and the far lower classes are left out of the cycle as they cannot afford it for a very long time.
Here in this way the technology is amalgamated and by this the demand for raw materials required for the technology is sustained because of the great demand for the technology. The sales increas the profits of the companies and as time progressed the demand reduces and this makes the companies either to invest in the advancement of the same technology or enter another TECHNOLOGY CYCLE which may be more profitable. In this way, the technology cycles in the society are diverse and continue because no company wants to die out of competition and this competition makes the companies to perish but to help the survival of the technology cycle in the society.
As the amalgamation is a part of sociological process of IMITATION of the dominant class lifestyle, the amalgamation is based on false consciousness on the part of the middle classes just to imitate the dominant class if their incomes rise. This kind of influence makes the Technology a FORCED OBSESSION for the other classes in the class hierarchy other than the Rich Classes.
* MIRRORBOY *
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