Evolution: Homo Technologicus Waits for No One!

Among species we humans are endowed with remarkable gifts, capable of adapting like no other, shaping our world and future for all others.

With these gifts we also seem to create challenges, traps and puzzles that must be solved to overcome the evolutionary challenges of the environment that we are creating. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) progressing so swiftly, we are confronted with a reflection of our identities visible in the product of the technology that we’ve created.

Our understanding of human capacity has progressed well beyond the anthropology we study and is no longer constrained by historical precedence. We are now capable of leaping beyond the limitations of our intellect through modern technology. It's time to accept that we are no longer homo sapiens nor just progenitors of a new human sub species.

The theory has been contemplated for quite some time for what we may become, now we must grapple with the reality of what we have become. The classification of homo technologicus has circulated as a specific way of establishing modern humanity as being distinctively different from our ancestors, albeit a relatively recent distinction. It’s quite evident by the ways we are dependent on technology for communication, social interactions, livelihoods, economies, security and now more than ever reasoning.

We’ve crossed the threshold but in so many ways continue to behave as if technology is separate and apart from ourselves. As an integrated characteristic of what we are and consume, it’s time to take a more critical look at our dependencies with greater seriousness, just as we must take responsibility for our own well-being in our environment, nutrition, health, and personal development.

While there will always be room for amusement as technology evolves with us, we too must evolve as individuals by devoting individual time and effort to develop to become the best version of homo technologicus we deserve to be!