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Imagine that you tune into your local news and see the chaos that doesn’t seem to concern you. You think that humanity is suffering constantly and regardless, you remain unaffected by the mystique and drama that is sold to you visually. You are inevitably engulfed by the ideologies represented by a media that has often forsaken journalism for politics. A media that treats reality like a horror film and augments each aspect of your life, making you hungover on extremism and one-sided, fragile views. This portrayal makes you believe that unverified ideologies are necessary and sane. Thus, we have let it take over our lives and run them. We have let it bring out the worst in us and compromise our sense of integrity. And yet, we know that technology cannot fabricate humanity completely or with authenticity. It cannot fabricate empathy and human instinct so deeply or intricately that it overcomes our dark and desperate tendencies. Technology isn’t meant for that. It does not benefit self-service or our need to fabricate reality indefinitely. However, its power is rudimentary in solving global issues that define our existence as a population itself. When iniquity, climate change, and pandemics are imminent issues that define our planet and precede our concerns, does disappearing into a technical void seem worth it to us? Does this recklessness really help anyone?
“Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.”
- TIM BERNERS-LEE, ENGLISH INVENTOR
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SHREYA VATSA