![]() ![]() Especially as technology gets better at understanding humans, you might increasingly find yourself serving it, instead of it serving you. But if you don’t know what you want in life, it will be all too easy for technology to shape your aims for you and take control of your life. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. Most people found themselves working from sunrise till sunset plucking weeds, carrying water buckets and harvesting corn under a blazing sun. Thousands of years ago humans invented agriculture, but this technology enriched just a tiny elite, while enslaving the majority of humans. ![]() ![]() Technology can help you a lot, but if technology gains too much power over your life, you might become a hostage to its agenda. So on what can you rely instead? Perhaps on technology? That’s an even riskier gamble. Vintage engraving of a scene from the Pied Piper of Hamelin.(Kate Greenaway/Getty Images) Due to the growing pace of change you can never be certain whether what the adults are telling you is timeless wisdom or outdated bias. ![]() But the twenty-first century is going to be different. In the past, it was a relatively safe bet to follow the adults, because they knew the world quite well, and the world changed slowly. Most of them mean well, but they just don’t understand the world. The best advice I could give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India or Alabama is: don’t rely on the adults too much. ![]()
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