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The remote generation


Remember when we used to watch cartoons, such as Kim Possible, who showed us where technology was taking the world to. We’re in that era, now; the fact that we are living in those times, is irrefutable. We now have the ability to perform most of our important tasks on our smartphones, including those that require collective effort; those tasks that require collective effort, can be done by a single person with the aid of their smart devices. 

Less is more, in the times we live in.

We all remember the times when human presence was deemed an asset in all sectors of the economy, and of life. Every task required 90%+ human involvement. Today, the humans, with only a single touch, can perform a myriad of tasks. We can conclude that these deemed complex devices are ambidextrously making our lives easier and also complicating our lives. Some people achieve more nor earn more than what a normal human being achieved nor earned a decade ago, with the aid of these smart devices. A preponderance are still stagnant, nor are utilizing the remote environment for different reasons, such as utilizing perception to augment their ego and perpetuate complacency in those who lack self-knowledge. 

It is no doubt that these man-made devices were made by man, owing to his devout belief that these devices would make man’s life easy. Well, to some it did; in fact, it has simplified gobs of lives; and to some, oh well, perception of reality is the coin of the realm. 

Some people would often utter “Some do it for money, most do it for likes” and I would utterly concur. This remote life, that most would refer to as the “cyber world” has its upside risks and downside risks. The biggest upside risk is that it offers you the full opportunity to make your identity unidentifiable, nor to alter your identity and to use a fake identity; however, paradoxically, you’re vulnerable to your cyber interlocutors because there are also same possibilities that they could also utilize the same opportunities that the remote world offers, and you’re utterly vulnerable to them, and tremendously susceptible to danger as much as you also believe that you’re safe and anonymous. 

Things have become easier, and we are now able to literally practice Vilfred Pareto's 80/20 principle by being able to have a myriad of tasks done in just a few touches on our screens. Almost everything happens remotely. Others find love in their inbox, some express their emotions through emojis, some show their love for others by uploading their photos on statuses or as their profile pictures, etc. We can communicate without being close to each other; which has taught us the amazing power of communicating with the absence of real emotions. Like remote controls, we have allowed our smart devices to alter nor control us. A preponderance of people, can no longer survive in public places without their smartphones. Instead of communicating with other humans, more people seem to prefer to rather interact with their own smart devices. A paradox, here, is that these devices were created to make our lives easier and ameliorate our communication platforms; however, the opposite seems to have manifested. 

We seem to have become a bunch of objects that are consanguineous to television, which are mostly dictated by the thumb.

We are the remote generation; we do everything remotely, and we are being controlled by almost everything that occurs remotely. 

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