Family and technology, trainers of society

For Diego LLopis

If we look back on what the families of before and now were like, we will clearly find routines of the day that today would seem very difficult for us to accept in today's society. This does not mean that current times are better or worse, simply the society is changing and evolving according to external factors that are capable of permeating the family, for example, technology and process automation.

The technologies of course generate progress and evolution for the human being, we use it daily and every day we are more demanding as consumers when looking for processes that make things easier, but as in every order, the technology has points in favor and against.

 Let's think a little, every time we visit the doctor he gives us a ballot with medicines so that our body is again in a state of equilibrium, even so, considering that medicine evolves more and more in favor of the well-being of the human being, all the remedies have an indication in the interior that refers to the "undesired effects" alterations or effects that one does not know that one can experience.

Well, now let's go back to technology, that process that began in the middle of the 18th century also entails a series of changes in society, the development of processes that make life easier and also make us more comfortable, carries with it an "unwanted effect" " in society. Currently in Chile there are more mobile phones than people, there are more wireless connections than conversations at the table, more hours on social networks than games with children, more access to inappropriate content ages than distractions in a place.

All these advances, whether we want it or not, generate changes in societies, before women were left in charge of the home and the care of children, men worked and put the rules in the home, fortunately nowadays even conservative societies like Chilena do not I would accept this type of machismo and the roles must inevitably be equated.

 Unfortunately changes also occur that also make us an increasingly individualistic society, everything that surrounds us can be found on the smartphone that have approximately 9 out of 10 people in your pocket , device that by the way came to replace the pacifier of children under 2 years, creating a very harmful habit for their young age, on the other hand there is no longer the instance for casual conversation or that always well received help to find an address.

The importance of the family in society cannot be seen from the perspective of past generations, at the time they thought they did things well, by the way, today many things of that time does not fit with the evolution of thought. I think that each generation has its time and space to develop its own conception of family, and how it should be related to technology to create a society

  As a personal reflection I think we should not have a paternalistic view of how a family should be, personally with my wife we ​​transmit values ​​and strengths to our son so that tomorrow, whatever the pace of life or the social context, he have the emotional and value tools to differentiate the good from the bad