Student's viewpoint

This is a video I got from Youtube.com about how technology is harming us.

These days I was interviewing some students in my school about what they think about technology, if it is harmful or helpful. I interviewed some students around the campus and finally I found a girl with a very interesting viewpoint. She's a 19 years old girl from Mexico aiming for a biomedical engineer degree. The question was: What do you think about technology, is it helping or harming us? Her answer was more complex than I expected. She accepted that she uses technology everyday like anybody; she likes to use her computer when she can. But she also said that she's conscious about the damage that this can cause; she gave the example about medicine and the advantages it has thanks to technology. "Technology has made people live longer," she said. "Curing and preventing diseases, and even saving people that are about to die. But although technology has given people a longer and with a better quality of life, it also has harming people. At the beginning technology in medicine was only to save lives, but now it also it's about modify the physique of the people with all those plastic surgeries, all that are just unnecessary changes that people do when they don't like something about their bodies and want to 'feel  better' with themselves, but  what's next? A brain surgery because they don't like how they act? These changes that people do are wrong ethically for many people because they aren't accepting them how they are." This was something that I never thought about, she was right people ask for these changes just because they don't like something, ignoring the risk that this include.
She also mentioned a book called Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov. "I really liked that book," she said. "It's pretty awesome because in a chapter it mentions a case, which take place in the future when man is able to create sophisticated robots, which were almost like a human, and once, one of these robots swear that he fell asleep and dream. But robots can't dream! Only humans can dream, so this means that the robot was getting a life, it was becoming a human and people didn't know what to do with it." I won't tell the end of this story in case that you want to read it. The point of the story is that in that time man does everything he wants to do, without thinking about the consequences this can means. This is just an example about what can happen if people don't think about all those unnecessary advances in technology, they aren't thinking about the consequences that their action can cause. We have to be conscious about it because we don't know when it can get out of control.

This is the cover of the mentioned book, Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov. I got it from Google.com.