Wasting Away Technology! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: When the monkey falls in love with the mobile || Acharya Prashant, Intnl Psychology Summit (2023)

Transcript

00:0099.99% users of the mobile phone, do they know a thing about the phone?

00:08Do they know?

00:09Except for the user interface, what do they know of?

00:12They have it in their palm as if it's something so ordinary, so cheap.

00:17And economics of scale is indeed providing that wonder of technology to you at very cheap

00:23rates.

00:24You ask yourself, how long will you by yourself create that mobile phone?

00:30Never.

00:31That's the problem.

00:32We have received almost for free something so precious.

00:36If you are given freedom, you are bound to misuse it because it's like giving freedom

00:40and power and authority to a drunken one.

00:44Freedom should be first a thing of within and only then a thing in your hands.

00:51Otherwise the results are catastrophic.

00:52The earth is closer to destruction today than it ever was in its history.

00:56More than 70% of internet traffic is for destructive or wasteful purposes.