The Unable technology Mission

The development of production has already drastically replaced the human labor force. However, it has brought new employment requirements in various sectors of industry and services. The nature of work in industrialized societies is no longer directly related to the product, but to the ability to use machinery, or to cover various links in the production chain. In post-industrial societies, this situation has changed even more, focusing already most of the workforce in the service sector. By changing the nature of the work, society itself changes, ranging from social stratification, culture, lifestyle to political developments.

However, technological development, no matter how much it has facilitated people, has not contributed to a major quality improvement in their lives. People have not become happier than when their tools are not available today. On the contrary, psychologists and sociologists even speak of significant increases in anxiety, stress, depression, and a number of concerns involving uncertainty, social loneliness, and so on.

Extensive household equipment, for example, may have brought much relief to household chores, which has created more favorable conditions for women's employment and a major change in their social role, but the need for such equipment has also brought increased living costs for purchase, maintenance, and use, including a number of expenses, such as energy, transport, services, which require more income, and more work.

Even that free time earned through tools that replace human labor is absorbed by the technology we use, which is also due to the social effects of modernity, such as the loss of former social ties and the weakening of community life. In this way technology, just as it creates our leisure time, robs us of it, by imposing on us a way of life that requires more work to provide for the needs that have been artificially added to us.

In terms of work, in the 1930 ' s the most important economist of the time, John Maynard Keynes predicted a happy future for modern societies. He believed that very soon, thanks to major technological developments, people would take time, working only 3 hours a day, and all the rest could cost themselves by “developing the life of” and by dealing with art, culture and religion.

But such predictions proved wrong. Replacement of human labor by cars has not resulted in a radical reduction in working hours. Rather, it has brought an increase in unemployment, making it difficult for workers to position in the labour market. Employers' pressure has increased, forcing workers to accept more difficult working conditions at extended hours. Studies show a high level of rising stress at work, which shows another picture of Kaynes' prediction.

There is always a stone of weight on the other side of the screw that balances any technological advancement of modern societies, which even in most cases weighs more than these advances. Today, developed societies themselves suffer crisis pressure and unable to please citizens, not to speak of poor and developing countries. This comes, to a considerable extent, because technology has not developed into human function, controlled by the value and ethico-cultural, but the opposite, has become a goal in itself, as modern societies have lost every sort of purpose and value system. The area that determines the nature of development is not human nature, but the nature of production tools and ambition to maximumize production performance.