I would argue in this essay how the claim has misguided the true reason that leads to the complexity of life, and how absurd the thinking seems towards the development of human civilization.
Technology certainly is not the true reason leading to the complexity of human life, but the most effective means making it less complex than it should be. For those myopically treating technological improvement in a misunderstanding way, the booming of the daily changing paths, the prosperity of the cutting-edge tools and the emergence of those brand new scientific discoveries have made our life unnecessarily complicated: we have to spend our time and energy learning new technologies, most of which become outdated even before we start to handle them; we are flooded with an abundance of information brought by the streaming media that is distracting us from doing jobs easily. But they have been confused in the superficial phenomenon, and are puerilely blaming all these on the development of technology. The civilization of human compels us to complicate our life, no matter how technology is developing, in which we are forced to further our paces to the other parts of the world to deal with the over-population, or we have to get access to methods to release the resource shortage or environmental pressures, or sometimes we need the information to know what is going next to our surrounding. Therefore, technologies, or should I say the new way mankind has established to better our living when we need more than what nature can confer, is allowed to reduce the complexity so that we can maintain our living path without so many barriers—to travel faster and further with automobiles, to communicate more swiftly with network, or to learn more easily via multiple-media.
To make technology isolated from human life, therefore, sounds extremely ridiculous after we have realized the truth that technology is not doable. Before scrutinizing the topic, the problem should be first clarified: for human beings, is the recurrence of the previous, simpler life necessary? Social advance, or should I say, the improvement of any species is a gradual, spiral up way leading to a state of complicacy that has the capacity to face the fierce surrounding and hardships that may come along. To live in a simple life, ergo, though imaginable, is never realistic when the human world is developed as its own pace. Simultaneously, avoiding technology use is just the ideology provoking the human life into a more painful and complicated situation. We now cannot imagine how ourselves and our descendants would be struggling with their lives in a world without modern transport, high-rise buildings, or communication applications, since they are, despite flaws, the most proper solutions we have ever figured out to address all the current issues faced by men when experiencing the increasingly populous society, the surging urge for landing and energy resource, the escalating demands for communication and unity, or even the macro perspective for searching another living place over the space for the long-lasting species continuation.
In conclusion, it is the human nature and the global development that compels us to live more complicated, and technology is endured with the fate of simplifying them. Thus it is irrational to reduce our technological dependency for the realization of the impractical simple life.
