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The following is a statement by Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak:
“When we started Apple, Steve Jobs and I talked about how we wanted to make blind people as equal and capable as sighted people, and you’d have to say we succeeded when you look at all the people walking down the sidewalk looking down at something in their hands and totally oblivious to everything around them!”
We still fail to realize that the explosion of electronics and technological innovations has not expanded human sensation, but has limited it. We have shrunk the world into a small screen that fits in the palm of the hand. A person looks into it, and for him nothing else exists. He thinks he is connected to the world, but in truth, he is connected to intermediaries—offices, systems, and corporations—that feed him whatever they decide. So instead of becoming freer, the human being has become more dependent. We are becoming greater and greater slaves.
And there is something even more serious here. With the rise of electronics, many normal professions disappear. But a profession is not only a way to earn money. The most important part of a profession is that through it a person feels himself needed in society, suitable for coexistence with others. A profession is a form of communication between people. I am a tailor, you are a shoemaker, a doctor, a lawyer—whatever it is, we need each other. We exchange services, interact and live through one another.
However, if people no longer need one another, if they only stare into phones, then it becomes like a drug. People will simply fall asleep inside. Movies will spin in their heads, and they will become removed from real life altogether.
Such innovations are gradually leading us to a state called “the recognition of evil.” It means that we will become forced to recognize that our egoistic development, where we each seek to benefit ourselves at the expense of others and nature, leads us into a dead end. We will have no choice but to admit that such a path brings emptiness, dependence, and separation, and that we must break out of it, escape it in a leap, headlong, anywhere away from it.
We will likely advance further and further in technology precisely in order to discover that it leads nowhere. It is not because technology itself is evil, but because external development without internal development only reveals emptiness. External progress is unnecessary. What is necessary is inner progress.
If we do not develop internally—toward connection, mutual responsibility, and the purpose of life—then technological progress will simply bring us back to the beginning, to the questions, “Why are we alive? What are we living for?”
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on January 9, 2025. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.