{"id":1401,"date":"2016-02-18T01:59:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?page_id=1401"},"modified":"2019-04-07T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:00:04","slug":"part3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/technology-evolution-or-revolution\/part3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Evolution \/ Revolution Article Series: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"content\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 3: The Realities of the Seduction  <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Everyone is Connected, But No One is Communicating<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" style=\"margin:-10px 10px 0px 0px\" align=\"left\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3-678x381.png 678w, https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/tech-series\/Slide3.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Looking Back, Moving Forward:<\/strong><\/em>In the previous eMod Buddy Blog, <strong><em>Technology Seduction,<\/em><\/strong> you got a taste of how we have been seduced into taking the medicine that is actually killing our freedom and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>In this next eMod Buddy Blog, you will learn more about the <strong>insidious nature of this seduction.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States,<br \/>\nand there has always been.<br \/>\nThe strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread<br \/>\nwinding its way through our political and cultural life,<br \/>\nnurtured by the false notion that democracy means that<br \/>\n&#8216;my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\u201d<br \/>\n~ Isaac Asimov ~<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <strong><em>Technology Evolution<\/em><\/strong> has evoked a wave of anti-intellectualism as Isaac Asimov defined. This wave has resulted in a cultural \u201cneed\u201d for artificial intelligence, which under the guise of convenience&nbsp;is eroding our freedom, free-will, privacy and in many ways our very existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology<\/strong> has<strong> seduced<\/strong> us and<strong> \u201cevolved\u201d our culture<\/strong> into one of disconnect and distrust where: \u201ce<em>veryone is connected, but no one is communicating<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We distrust ourselves and others.<\/p>\n<p>We distrust <strong><em>what others<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>(and what we):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><strong>Think<\/strong><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Say<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><b><strong>Do<\/strong><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have lost awareness of our needs. We value control, money, power and prestige over ethics. We have lost our personal power and identities, and allowed \u201cwants\u201d to dictate our drives, actions and motivation.<\/p>\n<p>We have lost ourselves. We have lost one another.<\/p>\n<p>We have lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Self-Identity<\/li>\n<li>Our Freedom \/ Free Will<\/li>\n<li>Our Privacy and Security<\/li>\n<li>Our Creativity (Self-Expression)<\/li>\n<li>Our Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Connect to Ourselves and Others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><em>The Technology Evolution Has Seduced Us into The Age of Narcissism<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This age has conditioned culture(s) to believe that THE GREAT \u201cI\u201d is most important\u2026 and \u201cI\u201d deserves to be happy, successful, powerful. Thus, in the <strong><em>blink of an \u201cI\u201d,<\/em><\/strong><em> a post, a tweet, an Instagram, a ping\u2026<\/em> turns friends into enemies, families into strangers, employees into competitors and communities into pieces (divided).<\/p>\n<p>This age of narcissism has resulted in cultures of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fear<\/li>\n<li>Control<\/li>\n<li>Entitlement<\/li>\n<li>Immaturity<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual Deficiencies<\/li>\n<li>Skewed Values and Priorities (Search Engines Determine Our Priorities and Insight (Google)<\/li>\n<li>Dependency and Addiction \u2013 Obsessive \/ Compulsive Need for Outside Validation\n<ul>\n<li>How many [Facebook] \u201cFriends \/ Followers\u201d determines popularity and likeability<\/li>\n<li>How many \u201cLikes\u201d I have determines self-esteem and self-worth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paralysis and Bankruptcy\n<ul>\n<li>Spirituality \u2013 Morality and Ethics Vanish<\/li>\n<li>Emotionally \u2013 Immaturity, Impulsiveness and Anger form Character and Personality<\/li>\n<li>Physically \u2013 Disconnect, Dis-ease and Dysfunction invade the Imbalanced System (Body)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"embeddedSmartPlayerInstance\" class=\"tscplayer_inline\" src=\"\/\/library-c.pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwi_stream_flip\/define_culture\/index.html?embedIFrameId=embeddedSmartPlayerInstance\" width=\"545\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The result of the Technology Seduction and subsequent Age of Narcissism is a population that is \u201ceasier\u201d to control, and thus an economy that is easier to manipulate. We see the results of this seduction in the decline of our economic growth and increasing shortage of talent \/ human capital.<\/p>\n<p>Business is paying the price.<\/p>\n<p>Communicating with the market has become more challenging:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harder to get interest<\/li>\n<li>Harder to sell<\/li>\n<li>Harder to deliver<\/li>\n<li>Harder to keep customers happy<\/li>\n<li>Harder to maintain and stabilize costs<\/li>\n<li>Harder to find and train the right employees and keep them<\/li>\n<li>Harder to find profit for reinvestment to meet the needs of a changing market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So what do we do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, if you had a splinter stuck in your finger\u2026 <em>what would you do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You would take it out, of course!<\/p>\n<p>But the question is NOT WHAT you would do, <strong>BUT HOW<\/strong> you would do it!\n<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHAT\u2019S NEXT?<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Learn more about \u201cNOT WHAT, BUT HOW\u201d&nbsp; in the next eMod Buddy Blog!<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Part 3: The Realities of the Seduction Everyone is Connected, But No One is Communicating Looking Back, Moving Forward:In the previous eMod Buddy Blog, Technology Seduction, you got a taste of how we have been <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/technology-evolution-or-revolution\/part3\/\" title=\"Tech Evolution \/ Revolution Article Series: Part 3\">[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":961,"parent":1332,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"single-post-stream-sbs-scroll.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1401","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24429,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions\/24429"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}