{"id":5592,"date":"2021-08-11T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoversities.org\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2021-08-12T04:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T04:18:16","slug":"challenges-in-detoxing-from-the-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecoversities.org\/es\/challenges-in-detoxing-from-the-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in Detoxing from the Digital World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Kaushiek Pranoo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

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The Digital Age \u2013 Welcome to the Machine\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

The Digital Age we are part of today offers us so many comforts and conveniences of technology that no other generation before us has ever had the privilege of enjoying. A simple smartphone today can do what a dozen or more items did a few decades ago. But with great power (of technological capabilities), certainly comes great responsibility. What could this responsibility mean? In my view, very little seems to have transformed about the fundamental sources of human suffering which have remained the same for thousands of years \u2013 that as individuals and in many of our social systems, we are still enslaved by our compulsiveness for hate, guilt, greed, fear, jealousy and anger within us. For example, warfare, since ancient times, has evolved from the use of clubs, swords, bows and arrows to guns and bombs, gradually increasing an individual\u2019s capacity for destruction. Today, a single leader may hold the power to press a button, to launch an arsenal of nuclear weapons that can decimate dozens of cities at once and can even trigger a nuclear holocaust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

If at all history has taught us one thing, it is that investing in expanding our power and capabilities irresponsibly without laying a strong foundation in building our sense of inclusiveness, clarity and balance can have disastrous consequences. How we address this in today\u2019s current modern context is a challenge that looms in front of all of us as it has always been through time. I think this is something that individuals and particularly, the education systems can address effectively, if only they are willing to make it a high priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Especially with something as powerful and potent as digital technology, as much as there are profound possibilities to impact the world positively, there will also always be scope for exploitation, abuse and misuse. This essay is an effort to share some of the key learning I\u2019ve had, in my explorations to find a more meaningful way to slow down, reflect, question and re-imagine my role and engagement with our rapidly evolving digital world. Some questions I\u2019ve been exploring include,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>