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Are We Paying a Heavy Price for Our
Are We Paying a Heavy Price for Our

Development ?
Development ?

or more than half a million years, small bands of own creations. Starting from the basics, inventions like
what we may agree were human beings roamed electricity, transportation and medicines have given a
Fthe earth as hunters and gatherers. With simple new dimension to the life that man leads. Everything has
stone tools and a social order based on kinship ties, they become so easy! It is a boon for man. He has pulled himself
successfully preserved the human species against natural to such a height that he can proudly crown himself as the
predators and calamities. Thus we may have a glimpse most superior species on earth. With the aid of science
of the social life of the Palaeolithic Period- the oldest and and technology he has changed the world and changed
most enduring type of human society. it for good. So many facilities are at his feet now that he
can stand tall above all, comparing the earlier days with
But then man gradually started using his skill and grey
the present, when man had nothing. But today there is
matter to make things that would help him in his survival.
nothing that he doesn’t have. However, something that
From the discovery of fire to the invention of wheel, we can
we choose to ignore in the process is to face the outcome
see that even from that age man had a tendency to develop
of this advancement. A potential question that needs to
his system as well as surroundings. These examples give
be raised is – What is the price that we are paying for this
us an idea about the bent of mind of the Homo sapiens. It
development? The need of the hour is to stop for a moment
had an extraordinary inclination towards inventing and
and think about where we are actually heading — is it
discovering things; man had a desire to improve himself
development or destruction?
and his ways of living. This hunger to know and to become
the most superior species led to the invention of many The flip side to this ‘Age of Science’ is that as we have
aspects- technology being the most outstanding among advanced more and more in the field of technology,
them. something fundamental to humanity has been left behind.
Values such as empathy and concern for our fellow-human
If one imagines all of human social evolution charted on
beings are gradually being eroded due to the onslaught
a 12 hour clock, the modern industrial epoch represents
of our ever-evolving lifestyles, aided by the marvels of
the last five minutes, no more. Technology along with
technological advancement.
itself has brought such remarkable changes in such
short time that it left man gasping and wondering at his Internet, for example, has opened up a world of
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