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¶ … ancient Greeks and Chinese philosophers were studying and writing about human nature in their writings. Thucydides found human nature to be main course of the aspects of politics. The world has changed a great deal since then and yet, human nature appears to have remained the same. It is undisputable that the latest discoveries of technology gave humanity a fourth dimension. The most precious of the gain of humanity through technology is communication and the possibility to travel faster than ever anywhere on the planet. Human nature is characterized by curiosity and inclination toward research. Humans always questioned everything and this was the chance for technology to thrive. Human nature is characterized by opposite features, like generosity and desire to do justice, but also by greed, self-interest, vanity and the pursuit of happiness. All these motivated scientists to look for answers, regardless of their reasons. Technology enhances people's lives, makes capitalism possible since society is now able to reproduce itself over and over again, but it also makes alienation or even total destruction possible. Since the beginning of the industrial era, writers, scientists, and artists have written or created their works under the influence of the technological advances that were rapidly changing the world as they know it since the dawn of times. An example of alienation through advanced technology is the SF novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, written by Philip K. Dick. The human nature dictates people to care for animals and for their fellow men. When they find themselves in a world almost destroyed where living animals are to the point of extinction and the humanity is on the verge of destruction, people will find a way to replace their objects of care or those they intend to exercise power over. They will continue to care for animals or order someone around even if there are few animals less to care for ar even fewer people they can employ to do jobs. They will find a replacement of those objects in artificially created animals and humans. The result will be total alienation from what the human spirit was supposed to be about in the first place. It becomes grotesque, disproportionate, but then the real world has experienced incredible wars and even more grotesque pictures resulted from reckless, careless, sometimes illogic human action.

Earlier, in the twentieth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne was also tackling the relationship between the technology and human nature, even if in a subtler war, as an adjacent theme beside the other themes of the novel. The principle of knowing one's history in order to be able to shape one's future, sustained by the classics is present in the romance's character and the characters are greatly depending on the acknowledging of this fact. The Pyncheon family is doomed for over two centuries because of the crime committed by colonel Pyncheon, a prominent member of the society in the 1600s. The ignorance characteristic to the seventeenth century that le to the trials and murders for whichcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, encouraged the murder of hundreds of innocents. Two centuries later, the colonel's family was still under the legacy the colonel ad is false testimony brought upon it, but technology changed a great deal of the way society moved and reacted. Approaching the climax, Hepzibah and her brother, Clifford Pyncheon, flee the city after Judge Pyncheon's death. The railroad, a recent mean of transport developed by the technological advances, is the mean that brings them away from the obscure past, helps those who can see the difference, find their freedom. Fantasy intertwined with the most practical aspects of reality and the protagonists look at the world out the trains' windows and find something completely different, even from what someone's imagination could have predicted it would be like: "looking from the window, they could see the world racing past them. At one moment, they were rattling through a solitude; the next, a village had grown up around them; a few breaths more, and it had vanished, as if swallowed by an earthquake. The spires of meeting-houses seemed set adrift from their foundations; the broad-based hills glided away. Everything was unfixed from its age-long rest, and moving at whirlwind speed in a direction opposite to their own." (Hawthorne, Chapter 17). One of the wonders of technology, the railway, is described in the chapter where the two flee the town in a very poetic and yet very realistic style. The industrial revolution and then the railroads have opened the world to those who were willing to conquer it. An unprecedented possibility to get together, to unite forces, idea and ideals faster then ever before was created thanks to the wonderful invention of the steam engine. People and merchandise were suddenly able to reach every corner of the country. People were brought together, first under the same roof of a train and then in the places they were traveling to thanks to technological advancement. And people immediately seized this opportunity and traveled whenever they could and shipped their goods wherever they were needed or the market seemed to create the need for. There was the dawn of globalization and the modern times were asking that peoples of the world keep pace with the new technological conquers in order to stay in the competition. The keyword for the new era under the umbrella of globalization was "efficiency."

Another field that comes into mind when talking about the relationship between technology and its influence on or relationship with the human nature and human destiny is that of economics. During the last two hundred of years, there has been a strong debate over the effects of globalization under the circumstances of the unprecedented technological advancement that was bringing states, governments and companies closer and closer together on a map that seemed to shrink more and more every year.