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Fear of technology reasonable when faced with loss
According to nurse Jill Holmes, who administered unto me my allergy shot, technophobia is “a very irrational and impossible fear.” In fact, no other interviews would really be required for this article, as today’s society could indeed vouch for those words spoken by Jill.
With the way things are, it appears that it would be quite difficult for someone who is afraid of technology to live in today’s world.
Companies constantly are becoming more technologically oriented, and new advances in the way people can do things are made daily. Newspapers, television shows, movies, music, shopping, education and much more have all evolved into an era of technology because of technology’s convenience and ease of access.
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In an interview with comedic superstar and self-proclaimed technophobe Steve Carell on People.com, Carell talks about his fear. “I dream about computers that turn into evil robots and eat my face. I’m not kidding,” he said.
However, according to a People.com interview with Carell’s “The Office” co-star, B.J. Novak, technophobia may not necessarily be a bad thing, and he, in fact, admires Carell for his absence of technological prowess.
“He [Carell] actually communicates with people. He actually asks people how they’re doing and makes friends and learns names and makes small talk while the rest of us retreat into our own little worlds in between each take,” he said. “Steve is the only true gentleman on the set. Steve is old-fashioned, and it works.”
The key phrase in Novak’s statement is “old-fashioned, and it works.” Being old fashioned, even in an ever-evolving society, still works in possessing values and lessons that we are slowly pushing into the background with technology. The values and lessons that the “old fashioned” way can provide are slowly being relinquished for the worthwhile convenience that technology brings. Think about it, if technology weren’t as spruced up and pretty as it is today, we might actually have to go out and physically talk and meet with people. We might have experience and learn about new things. We might have to use the resources we were born with in order to accomplish the goals we need accomplished. Perhaps the dependency on technology that we have acquired is forcing us into a fear of what lies waiting after the day technology should fail. Perhaps it is no longer only the frustration of physically having to do harder work that makes us want to create more technology to ease our burdens, but the frustrating idea of having to do harder work.
Maybe those are the reasons for why we crave technology, but then what are the reasons for why people fear technology?
“There’s no deep reason – no ticking toy ever harmed me in my youth. I never got a big electric shock. I just don't have the aptitude for technology or even the inclination,” said Carell.
This leads to the fact that technophobes and technologians are both created out of frustration. Technophobes, under the most common circumstances, fear technology because they cannot understand it. Likewise, technologians fear labor because they have forgotten it. So it comes down to which is the lesser of two evils: a world of technology and convenience or a world of labor and good values. What would a pandemic of technophobia bring? What would a completely technologically dependent world be like? Only time can tell.
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