Queen Rania warns of risks caused by relying on technology
Date
11/3/2022 5:28:24 AM
(MENAFN) Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan has cautioned of the risks created by humanity’s rising dependence on technology and urged for better highlighting on using it to develop the lives of the most vulnerable people around the globe.
“The real progress we need is not better machines but for all of us to be better humans,” she said at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Wednesday, in her keynote speech during a session titled “Battling Built-In Biases,” according to the Jordan News Agency.
Jordan is joining for the first time at the yearly conference, which was set up in 2009 and is known as Europe’s biggest tech event.
Queen Rania also stated that we have become “hooked” on our devices, mentioning the outcomes of the Digital 2022 Global Overview Report that the average daily amount of time spent online went up in 2021 by four minutes a day, which adds up to one other day per person for every year.
“If someone told us we’d have one extra day per year, would we conclude that the best thing we could do for our families, for our communities, for our world was to take those extra 24 hours and invest them back into our screens?” she questioned.
“I am concerned that we’re undervaluing the most precious currency of all — our time. I am concerned that, even as virtual reality improves by the day, we’re neglecting the needs of our actual reality. And our mental health is suffering, too.”
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