Question: Software engineer Steve Wozniak, who together with Steve Jobs created the Apple empire, when answering the question, “Has a human being become happier after the invention of the personal computer?” said: “This is a very complex question. At one time I thought that if we made people’s lives easier, it would bring them happiness. They would work less. However, they began to work even more. Now a family must be supported by two working people, not one. I think that if we compare ourselves with primitive people by the level of happiness, it will be approximately the same.
At one time Steve Jobs and I dreamed of creating a gadget that would make blind people able to see. But now when I enter the subway and see that everyone is sitting with their faces buried in their phones, I understand that we have made all sighted people blind.”
Do you agree that we are a blind humanity?
Answer: We still have to realize that all innovations in electronics are intended only to limit us in sensations, in the perception of the world, in the sensation of life.
I look at a small screen that fits into the palm of my hand, and for me nothing else exists. Through it I supposedly connect with the world. But whom do I actually connect with? With some office, some intermediary that “pushes” everything it wishes onto me. A person has not become free, but more dependent. We are becoming bigger and bigger slaves.
Moreover, with the help of electronics and everything else, many normal professions have disappeared. A profession is not only something that gives people the opportunity to earn money. The most important thing in a profession is that a person feels that they are suitable for coexistence with others. A profession is a method of communication between people. I am a tailor, you are a shoemaker, a doctor, a lawyer, and so on.
It does not matter who or how, but we communicate; we need one another.
And if we will not need one another and will only stare into mobile phones, then it is the same as giving an injection or a pill. People will fall asleep, and all kinds of movies will be spun in their heads, or they will be removed from life altogether.
Question: What scenario is laid down by the upper force?
Answer: This scenario is very simple; it is called “recognition of evil.”
We will be obliged to recognize the evil of our egoistic development and to understand that it leads us into a dead end, and that we must get rid of it, break out of it in a leap, rush away from it anywhere, headlong. I hope that someday we will do this.
For now we are trying to explain this to people. But how much they listen, that is a question. Still, here and there the first shots are already beginning to break through.
Question: That is, will we advance further and further in technologies in order to understand that they will lead us nowhere?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is that why they are developing?
Answer: No, development must be internal. External development is not necessary at all.
But if we do not develop internally, then external electronic development reveals emptiness, and nevertheless brings us back to the beginning.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/9/2025
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