Do you agree that human intelligence is the biggest threat to humanity? Are you taking me for a cynic? Please don’t! I will prove to you with a fair amount of authenticity that both human progression and regression have happened because of the use and abuse of human intelligence. Technology has been used to kill and destroy, be it through an atomic war, trojan, or through creation of a biological weapon. Now technology or should I say applications have intruded every aspect of our lives? We wake up through an app, get up and start walking and another app counts our steps and pulse rate, and then another helps us to remove the curtain to let the sunlight in, and so on. Suddenly there is an avalanche of apps, an app-avalanche out there. It’s an app and apps all the way! We hardly realize that the more dependent we become on apps, the more we resemble our distant ape ancestors.
Don’t feel offended as apes are our most respected ancestors. Although some people use their brains less than an ape does in deciding which banana to pick, still the humans get offended if compared with an ape. This is one of the biggest concerns of humanity. They have a self-esteem which they feel is their birth right! It’s something that has been carried by their forefathers to be handed over to them and they feel offended if they are called a dolphin. But they feel elevated if they are called a lion although this animal is not in our lineage!
Humans lack acceptability but most of them accept technology at ease. They take pride in accepting and using new technology. We take it as a compliment, and feel a chip on our shoulder if our intelligence is compared with artificial intelligence. But it is our human right to protest if our intelligence is compared with an ape, no matter what relationship we have had with them in the past. Who cares about the past? We always want to make our future glorious. In that endeavor, we can blacklist our shady past forever painting black on its face! That’s why we invent technology and try to forget our past. Precisely, that’s the reason we have so many applications right from the time we wake up.
The Application Revolution – The Trackers and Trickers
In the office and at work we have at least ten trackers and applications to fill up. Just doing the work well is not enough. Measuring it with a yardstick is also necessary. You have to bisect, dissect, and intersect it with more trackers like a paranoid detective. How many times have we gotten up from the desk and how many times we went to the restroom and wasted our productive hours? All are measured by the applications. Machines and applications are becoming smarter day by day. The day is not far when your toaster will start giving you performance reviews.
Laugh aloud: Ace the Performance Appraisal Process and Praise the Lord
There shouldn’t be any regrets. Freedom has to be impaired to push humanity to prosperity. To get something, you need to sacrifice something. So, you are always under 360-degree surveillances. Cameras on the top, trackers in the computers, several applications, and worksheets to measure your productivity, biometric systems to measure how long you were in the office and so many. You are also told to fill out different trackers with diverse details. It’s like asking to dig your graves and the depth of it is measured by the trackers. All these data taken together are compiled to make your karma chart. These trackers decide your destiny. It’s not the quality of your work or your customers’ happiness that matters, but these trackers decide how good you are at your job and what you deserve.
We know, our phones suck! The computers suck! The biometric machine sucks! The trackers suck! At the same time, the tragedy is we cannot live without them. We are surrounded by technology and machines, and we are allowing them to rule us. They will rule us tomorrow. Wars will be fought by robots and worker’s intelligence will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Babies will be born in test tubes, and we will have enough problems to laugh at our progress. Before this dreadful day comes, read my comics, appreciate my foresight and hindsight, and laugh aloud. I will be around again next week to amuse you and tickle your funny bone. Till then, goodbye!
See ya!
Yours laughingly,
Norman & Ozi.
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