TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
Keywords:
Digital Divide, Digital World, Social Communication, Technology, Techno-Dependent, Technological Appraisal, Virtual WorldAbstract
We’re living in a ‘digital world’. Technology influences every aspect of human life, making it easier, better and different. The fast-developing technology gives new impetus to developments almost in every field. The primary purpose of technology is to build human relationships, and human community. It has to safeguard and enhance the entire cosmos. However, often people tend to be too much immersed in this digital or virtual world and fail to be present adequately in the real world, to the real people and to real relationship. To make technology serve human beings well, requires the exercise of good judgment. It is an obligation for all to harness humanity for the better use of technology. Human persons ought to be connected to claim their identity in technology and technology ought to be understood and accepted as an agent of humanity.
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