We must not be Controlled by Machines

Professor D. Aminul Islam

Renowned writer, Researcher and Professor of Philosophy, Dhaka University

I was studying in abroad back then. At that time I heard, the individuals working in the nuclear center needed to get a mental health check up every day before going in to their office and after coming out of there. Because, if an individual presses one button instead of another, the whole world would suffer. But how long would these tests work? The person who is completely consumed by a machine, must come out of the control of the machine in order to survive as a human!

We express our pride about the current generation. People are traveling the universe, their power and wealth has unimaginably increased. There’s a drastic advancement in technology and economy. But wealth-knowledge-fame- are these everything? What about the simultaneous increase of violence, hatred, feuds and murders? And the decrease in compassion and empathy! This says, we might have earned a lot in this generation, for sure, but probably, sacrificed a lot more….