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Is Technology a Necessary Evil?

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Save Planet A strong inscription in my childhood memory, is a non-fiction story of an object called "Plastic". The exact narrative described it as "the biggest invention of last century". The heroic account was so loud that most of my childhood discussions were dedicated to this telling theory of  technological insurgency. If 18th century was committed to brand new innovations, the next centuries credited to acceleration and spread through industrial revolution. Stress on consumption to promulgate growth was the only corporate slogan though with necessary lexical alteration. The very last thing on the card was concern for nature, which is regarded as very regressive and con-industrialization. Quite obviously industrialization ensured employment, good life style and technology in the reach of common man. Come 21st century, the whole perspective underwent an exhaustive change, flipping the very perception upside down with more focus on preservation than growth.We...