Why Can't Technology Make Us Happy?
Technological advancement is not making us happy . Actually, it is not the job in the purpose of technological advancement to make us happy. The purpose of technology is to make our lives easier, more comfortable, and probably very highly efficient. Can an Expensive Car Make You Happy? Let me give you an example, if we get a high-tech car, the car can offer us very high comfort. It can offer us high efficiency in terms of speed with less fuel consumption. And it probably might even offer us a very high status. But it is possible that in a really expensive, luxurious car, one may be sitting there and feeling absolutely miserable. He or she can think to themselves, "I know the car can't make me happy, but isn't it better to cry in a Bentley than in a Honda City?" We're not against the fact that technology offers us incredibly efficient systems to live comfortably and we should use them happily. Spiritual wisdom and ethics teach us that we should take resp...