The curious collaboration between humanity and technology - the present and the future!

The collaboration between humanity and technology shapes our world. As we navigate advancements and challenges, balance is key. Integrating artificial and emotional intelligence while staying true to human values ensures technology enhances, not replaces, our essence

- Prof Nishit Narang

With each passing day, we see the emergence of new technology. Not one day exists, during which humans can refrain from experimenting with technology. And yet, there exists a strange and curious association that humanity has with technology. On the one hand, humanity defines and helps technology to evolve to make lives simpler. Yet, on the other hand, there is this lingering fear as well that technology may take over humanity in the near future. And this dilemma of whether technology is a life saviour or a threat, contributes immensely to the curious collaboration that exists between humanity and technology!

For how long has this collaboration existed?

Humans’ oldest and possibly the first exposure to technology can be considered to be the stone tools, which were invented perhaps more than 2 million years ago. These tools helped the early humans performs tasks, such as cutting, crushing, or smashing, in a manner that simplified execution. The collaboration can thus be presumed to have started in the early stages of humanity itself. Thereafter, the fire kindred had raged stronger over the next centuries, and perhaps from there, humanity could never really stay away from technology.