Chapter 510

11. TECHNOLOGY NEEDS AWARENESS, NOT WORSHIP

Human history demonstrates that every great advance has been both an opportunity and a test. Technology is no exception to this fundamental law. It is neither good nor bad in itself: it becomes valuable or dangerous depending on the level of awareness with which it is used.

In recent decades, technology has gone from being a tool to becoming, for many, an object of veneration. It is attributed with absolute powers, magical solutions, and a supposed moral superiority over human experience. That is the breaking point: when admiration transforms into worship, conscience weakens.

Artificial intelligence, in particular, confronts us with a profound question:
Are we using technology to think better or to stop thinking?

Human conscience cannot be delegated. It can be supported, expanded, and enriched, but never replaced. When we relinquish our own judgment, discernment, and personal responsibility, technology ceases to be an ally and becomes a blind guide.

Conscience implies pause.
Worship demands submission.

A conscious society uses technology to improve education , facilitate communication , reduce suffering , and expand knowledge . A society that worships technology ends up depending on it even to decide what to feel, what to believe, and what to desire.     

True progress is not measured by the speed of systems, but by the depth of the thought that guides them. Technology without conscience can optimize processes, but it cannot provide meaning. It can organize data, but it cannot understand values. It can simulate intelligence, but it cannot embody wisdom.

Therefore, the challenge of our time is not technical, but human.
It is not about creating more powerful machines, but more insightful people.

When conscience leads, technology serves.
When conscience is absent, technology rules.

And no civilization has ever emerged stronger from giving up on thinking for itself.