Computer And The Pursuit Of Happiness By David Gelernter

The essay, ‘Computer and the Pursuit of Happiness,’ written by David Gelernter, deals with the influence of the computer and internet on individual and on the society. In this essay, Gelernter addresses three questions/ issues:
- Whether thanks to Computers and the Internet, we are now living in a new information age? Gelernter, addresses that we are not living in a new information age and computers and the Internet do not represent a revolutionary development in human history except in science and engineering.
- Whether computers have been beneficial or harmful to humanity over the last fifty years? He says that despite the information and wealth that computers have generated, human happiness hasn’t increased on the whole. New technologies