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Modern technology is increasingly dominating the world and the domination is likely to become more pronounced in the future because of the fast developments tending to subdue, creating human thinking and expression.

But the belief that literature would have no place in the future life of man is equally erroneous. Technology has created robots, artificial intelligence in the shape of “thinking computers” which can read, translate, interpret and give decisions with amazing speed and compositions – poetry, prose, drama, novels, and stories. As such, our actions are governed more and more by computer culture and electronic calculators of all types will destroy the talent of writers, authors, poets, biographers, and artists. Rather it can generally promote the climate for expressions of talent in various channels by providing firstly enough leisure, as the technology is creating leisure by introducing labor-saving and devices. The leisure thus created can be fruitfully put to literary pursuits.

Literature, in reality, is the product of thought of very sane and gifted people, who live in all ages and they need an environment of peace and tranquility and naturally, the advancement of present-day accompanied with the comforts of life provided by modern technology can promote better literature and masterpieces in the arts. Scientists and technologists do not encroach upon the field of literature as it is the source of great peace and inspiration for materialistic-related distractions of the mind. Literature is an essential part of the culture and its values cherished by people since time immemorial and technological progress cannot afford to cause decay and neglect of nature and its processes. The machine must not enslave man completely as it is the human spirit that must be decisive especially regarding the right uses of technology. The latest drift to technology has to be adjusted and regulated so as not to let the latent aspects of culture fade away and make a human being a machine.

There are people who are of the opinion that science demolishes faith and tradition, it produces skepticism, anxiety, and even tension as it doubts everything, even some of the cherished values. Technology has helped science to produce weapons of destruction and it has further deteriorated the areas of peace. Here the literature gets suppressed. The artists and poets who prepare the literary pieces get suppressed and the art suffers.

Technology, as such, is not averse to literature, nor should it be. It is only when technology is not used in a worthwhile direction when it is used to produce military hardware and things to terrorize mankind, that literature goes into the background. The pieces of art and literature, poetry, prose, drama, etc, are the source of sustenance of the soul of man. In todays, ever-increasing tensions of day to day, good literature makes a lasting impact on the mind, it entertains, instructs, and ennobles the spirit of human beings. There is a strong reason for such an impact of literary pieces on the human spirit. The poets and artists have been souls gifted exclusively for the works created by them. No ordinary men could venture into the field of literature, so the pieces of literature produced by these geniuses of men and women had a strange power of giving solace to depressed souls.