As a kid, we were shown a movie at school (a socio-educational movie that was often shown in Italy to develop thinking), the name of the movie I don't remember at the moment. The movie was about science fiction (it would be a movie of the 60's and 70's, many movies like this were made in that era) and at one point in the movie man-made technology went against man and turned man into his slave by winning against man.
I have never thought about it for so many years. After so many years, this thought entered my head during the global lockdown caused by Covid.
During the lockdown, there was only one motto in the whole world: Social Distance. That is to say, the natural traits of man from Adam's creation, i.e. social relations and the social, economic and human relations with each other, were stopped for a few months and man was imprisoned inside the house. During this period all kinds of shops, offices and courts were closed except for essential shops. Only those who are qualified to do "smart work" from home continue their work
Millions of people sitting at home together! Such an event has never happened before in human history. Millions of people gradually became accustomed to something new during this lockdown, and that was e-commerce. People started doing all their work online without going out of the house: starting from clothes, everything that is needed is not a matter of buying online. If you are hungry, you can order food online and bring it home. This is the understanding that the social relationship of people with people works even after all.
Bai became in the corner of the house. Smart work, smart shopping, smart food while sitting at home.
Well now close your two eyes and imagine with me a little: think 100 years have passed into the future with a time machine; You see a society where the roads are empty. The number of cars seen is also driverless. There are no shops, no people, no busyness. Everything is happening through technology. People are buying and selling everything online.They are also being delivered through small drones. All the people who are alive now are qualified to do "smart" and "smart working". A few of these smart people are doing all the work with technology or robots. In this society, "non-smart" people have no value, no need. According to Darwin's formula, only those who are "strong and smart" have been able to survive in this new society.
If you think a little deeper, you will see that the world is already preparing for a virtual society. We got to see one of his experiments through Covid. Why should I fear that in the future there will be an era where people will be the most "unnecessary things" in the world. But I hope I don't have to see that era.