Be Not Afraid of Technology, But Educate For It

Supriyo Chaudhuri, Founder & CEO - e1133.
 
For us humans, it seems to be the best of times, and the worst of times.
It is indeed the age of having information at our fingertips, but also to let misinformation rule our sentiments. 
It is a time when technology can talk back to us in a human-like manner, and yet many people struggle to read, understand and write properly.
It is a time when the OpenAI’s o1 can do complex reasoning, and yet most of us may find this Dickensian rendering of human plight incomprehensible.
Our newspapers would claim that we are all going downhill, and yet we are now at the threshold of delaying ageing and death, seeding rain and synthetic fuel, space travel for leisure and being present everywhere at the same time through holograms.
 

 
In short, we are having a normal day, complaining that things could be better and forgetting that we have come a long way.
Of course, as Paul Virilio says:
“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shi...