Technology, A Synonym For Cultural And Social Divisions Among People

Technology, a synonym for cultural and social divisions among people

The indiscriminate use of technology can lead to the emergence of a divided society, then, the impact of technology on modern societies has caused new cultural and social gaps among human beings, because not all people even when they shareThe same territory have the same opportunities to access technological tools. The cultural and social gap that technology is presented between both advanced and underdeveloped countries as well as within the same nations, in this regard, it should also be noted that a very small portion of humanity has access to technologies and those who are partOf it are more and more updated in these skills, while those who do not access technology, are increasing. A very simple example about this situation can be evidenceThey have many skills and knowledge about it.

There is a growth of inequalities, the distances between the rich and the poor are every day, those who hold economic power, are directing the course that acquires the development of technology and therefore their use;The states seek domination and for this they create a false idea of happiness and equality and use technology to dominate and standardize, without taking into account the differences and possibilities of societies;An idea of the use of technology as a means of massification, standardization and domination is clearly exposed in Huxley’s work: a happy world (1932), where the Bokanovsky method is treated (in vitro fertilization) which is proposed as “one of one ofThe greatest instruments of social stability ”(P.

4), There is the use of technology in the creation of human beings that are identical, act the same, think the same and are easy to control, thus, the great technology developers manipulat their use and use it to massify cultures andideologies, leaving behind all those who do not have the purchasing power to come into contact with their creations and advances. Today it is common for technology, mass media and communication technologies to be used, to massify religious, political and economic ideologies, attending to the idea of globalization, thus the states and owners of power manipulate theInformation and get people to act according to their purposes, this also makes access to technology not for all, the states and economic groups also have the power of determined who and how they can access the tools andinformation;Returning to the example of the Bokanovsky method, it is clear that only those who have the purchasing power will be ableIdeal of reproduction naturally.

The struggle for political and economic power has led to generate social, economic and cultural differences in the face The gap between culture and technology in modern societies (2003), in which it states that: “There are human groups on whose destination it is decided without having the opportunity to participate in the decision, the division of the world into two humanities, one that is move towards cyberspatial society, and another that vegetates in a subsistence economy ”, this idea highlights the manipulation that is made of power, to maintain control in all modern societies it is common to see how computer technologies and communication are They put at the service of large economic and political groups, in this way the common people only have access to what is convenient for these groups, thus access to L to technology obeys particular interests and is broad entity by purchasing power which generates a wide margin of difference between those who have it and those that do not. An example of this can be seen in Colombia;In the education sector, in which there are huge differences, depending on the social and cultural group to which people belong, if we talk about the public sector, it is well known for all that the investment in infrastructure and technological tools is still limited in the urban sector andMuch more in the rural sector which makes a big difference in knowledge and educational quality provided to students, who being from the same country do not receive the same opportunities and benefits. Otherwise it occurs in the private sector of education to which only those who have the purchasing power to pay for it, and thus receive quality education with access to technological tools which guarantees to receive an education according to the demands of modern lifein accordance with scientific and technological advances. The aforementioned highlights that access to technology has always had and will have an environment marked by the political and economic interests that are reflected in the economic and cultural social levels characteristic of modern societies.

Technological development has been increasing over time, this has caused different types of changes, affecting both culture and interpersonal relationships, since not all cultures have attached and accept these technological changes, this generates that the idea thattechnology unites the world in many ways;That money, ideas, information, knowledge and images move through the world almost instantly, not global and that many ethnic and cultural groups are excluded from the benefits that technology represents, either by resistance to resistance tolose their own identity or simply because they do not share the ideal of quality of life supported by modernity. In Colombia, for example, not all cultures in the country have attached and accept technological changes, thus being in their typical and ancient customs, leaving aside the arrival of the new technology and staying in their usual customs, arguing that these new technologiesThey are only going to move people away from each other more, changing their way of expressing, speaking, addressing others and relating, thus causing a loss of humanity and returning to the most individualistic and unconscious people, giving more importance to material things anddisposable, such as technological devices, than to the life of the same people.

The development of technology has several characteristics immersed, one of them is the importance it has in the construction of space, in which we can observe the way it is used, since the ruling classes are the ones who control and generate it, motivated byIts use in objectives such as knowing, controlling, mediating, solving and avoiding factors that affect their interests. In addition, it can be noted that although the era of globalization and technology intends to unify societies and cultures, this is not completely attainable, since there are many factors that make it impossible among which the roots of some cultures can be mentioned to their principlesand its customs and social and economic inequality that generates difference in opportunities for access to technology, so we are immersed in a world where technology can be understood as a reason for economic and cultural social differences, taking into account that not allpeople have access to it and not all human beings see it as an instrument of social and cultural reunification, but on the contrary they see it as a threat to the identity, integrity and humanization of cultures.

References

1. Hernández, a. (2003). Modernity and technology or the gap between culture and technology in modern societies. Readings in Humanities: Society and Technology I (10) 15-32.
2. HERNAUX, d. (nineteen ninety six). New technologies and appropriation of the territory. Cities, 32 (3), 9.
3. Huxley, a., & Hernández, R. (1997). A happy world: and new visit to a happy world. Square & Janés.