Man is becoming tools of his tools Tools are things that are controllable, normally they are non

living man made t hings made for mans facilitation. The first tools in the history of civilization emerged in the stone age when man made tools out of stone i.e stone knives, ston e hammers etc. As time passed these tools started improving, bronze age was name d after usage of tools made of bronze. Then came the iron age where man made too ls made of iron. Slowly and gradually tools took the form of technology which we see around us today. These tools were invented when their need was felt, the first cave men needed to ols for hunting animals so they shaped hammers and knives out of stone. Then the ir successors improved them and then in a few billion years the result is in fro nt of you in the form of modern weapons, nukes nuclear bombs, etc. But the quest ion here is are we their tools or are they ours. Countries are afraid of each ot her they are fighting with each other over rights to possess nuclear weapons. Me etings are taking place petitions are being filed and who is sitting back and wa tching? The same man made tools. With the discovery of electricity in the early 90s a boom was seen in technology which reached its peak in the late 90s and early 20s. Today we live in the world o f information technology where life without computers and gadgets is totally uni maginable. Needless to say these things didnt even exist in concept only 50 years ago. Communication has always been a need of man may it be today or a thousand years ago. Communicating over long distances was however a problem not more than a hun dred years ago, the first device to carry and transmit sound over long distances i.e. a telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell in 1870. It was a tool made to fulfill a vital need of the developing civilization but who knew that a teleph one would convert into a handheld, rechargeable, video communication device in m erely a century. A cellular phone today has become an ultimate necessity without which life is certainly not imaginable. We have become so addicted to rapid, ch eap and instant communication that it can certainly be deemed an addiction. It seems like we are not controlling these tiny handheld devices but they are contr olling us. You must have watched movies that picture artificial intelligence i.e. man made technology taking over the earth and enslaving or annihilating the human race we ll that is quite possible. Man first creates tools and then gets enslaved by it i.e. the tools in return start using them.