EDITORIAL | 21st Dilemma: Why the World Seems to End... Soon

When capitalism and bureaucracy take life force more than they do for massive control of the land, when every move feels under an eye, surely, one can’t be wrong – capitalism, technology, media, AI – all are pieces enclosed together, slowly crashing the kind human soul. This isn’t your problem, take a closer look why. 

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When the world itself shapes how everything runs, when capitalism and bureaucracy take life force more than they do for massive control of the land, when every move feels under an eye, surely, one can’t be wrong – capitalism, technology, media, AI – all are pieces enclosed together, slowly crashing the kind human soul.  

No longer does a man and his dream run the world. It’s these tools and narcissistic minds now. Human indolence takes its highest form, clickbait becomes an internet bloodbath, and a chunk of reality gap is left for students and professional lives as part of society is depreciating, as automation and technology endlessly innovate. This sounds high-flown, a bit crazy, but believe me, these are the reasons why everything is on the brink. 

Time runs fast. Or do we? 

Humans are masters of evolution. It becomes an undetachable string wired for efficiency. Everything feels fast today for one reason: Attention Span. Decades mold our favorite classic movies like Forrest Gump, where dialogue favors a sweet movie-character feel, to Avengers, where battles are the climax and idling movement is non-negotiable, banned for moviemakers. It’s boring, and people skip it in a blink. From 12 seconds to 8.5 seconds attention time, from 2000 to 2015, there's a plummeting mental fatigue overpowering what it means to take things slow.  

This, at least presently, pressures people to demand quality in a fast-paced workforce, which turns to burnout. A character longing for peace is overly pushed to please the tycoon industry. It comes as contempt for manipulation in a twisted psychology that controls, whereas platforms like TikTok, with the most advanced algorithms, capitalize on how sick we are. One study showed that system quality isn’t about the information quality experience but curated stronger influence. Feeling light, fun, justifiable entertainment short TikTok videos under fires hidden truth, as being a control freak that soon people will not exterminate itself from real quality of life but also shake off heads for ignorance, automation, distractions, and socio-political influences that wipe out the steady living of everyone. 

Why Philippines aren’t ready for Artificial Intelligence 

To start, this isn’t about just CHATGPT. The yearning for reliance and “efficiency” in the information web disrupts ownership. The huge, relentless dependency on AI becomes mediocre, convicting almost all human-technology influences as rattling with stigmas. On a micro level, it completely shatters different stages of individuals. Living in the neo-liberal Philippine education crisis is a flame adding to a student’s hunger for quality education. It’s a fact that cultures and the dissociation of adequate educational budgets, ineffective teaching, lead populous students to become AI users. Aside from the facts of weak government provisions and yet the establishment of AI regulation contributes to how student indolence is encouraged.  

On macro outlook, mostly all corporations shift to pull a competitive outlet as AI for efficiency, administering easy to complex workloads. Faster growth equates to capitalism, of course, which leads to thousands of popping AI categories tools to automate the workforce at the speed of light. It's right to say that limitless access to the majority of these non-compliance and security information breaches is left out of the user’s priority. Temporarily, it becomes the glorious hold for workers, but in the long run, for CEOs and those seated high in tech, the clash between human and technology work will be counted. And obviously, those who generate faster, done better will remain. It is never a negative perspective to look today. The domain of tech progression gives back a counter-clockwise social construct in slipping productivity, declining will. Solutions come from the right distribution and “where” this innovation should take pause. As a third world country, we outsource and work with AI closely so that in a few years we may become under the command of it. And all this is just a start.