Job vs. Profession

Job vs. profession.

Will computers control humans in the future? People always tend to seek the easy way out looking for something that would make their lives easier. Machines and tools have given us the ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort. As the technology advances, computers become faster and more powerful. These new machines are enabling us to do more in less time making our lives easier. The increased use of computers in the future, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans.

One of the images, which Asimov describes in the book, is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs designed to educate effortlessly a person. According to the Profession story people would no longer read books to learn and improve their knowledge. People would rely on the computers rather than "try to memorize enough to match someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not choose to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computers would start to control humans’ lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers.). Humans followed a computer’s solution to a problem they could not solve themselves allowing a computer to take control over their lives not allowing them to think for themselves. In the Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers. The author predicts that computers will increase their role in the future while the technology advances. Computers will become faster and people will want to use them more to make their lives easier.

Depending more and more on the technology can turn people’s jobs in to a mindless, effortless positions. No one will aspire to become a professionalist when everything will have ready solutions and procedures.