technologies and laziness
Nowadays technologies develop so rapidly that it is very difficult to prognosticate our life in some years, to say nothing about coming centuries. At present we can see innovations, were impossible to imagine some years ago. They facilitate our life and help us in different situations. On the one hand it is very good that our life becomes more and more comfortable but on the other hand, I am afraid that in some years there will be an opportunity simply to lie on a sofa and think what you want. Your home appliances will understand your thoughts and will implement them at once. For example, imagine a situation, when you want to watch TV and your TV-set switches on immediately when you have thought that you want to watch something. Another example: your vacuum cleaner cleans your room when there is a lot of dust in it and don’t even follow it. These fantasies may become reality very soon. What will happen to people in this case? There will be no need to walk along your house, as everything will be done by your reliable partners- your home appliances, which will do everything themselves without your assistance. Perhaps, people will be very glad, that their life will remind paradise. However, they will gradually become fat and motionless. Movement is life and absence of movement is death. If you will have an opportunity to avoid all movements at all, you will become a living corpse. This is a very dangerous and sad prospect for future times. I think that this is inevitable. Once we had TV sets without remote control, we didn’t have mobile phones and now we have them. That is why I prefer not to think about the future in order to avoid sad thoughts about the process of development for our mankind.
