Impact of Technology Dominance in the Play Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan

Abstract

In the contemporary world, technology has progressed from a calming human aid into a foremost force shaping lives, ethics, and relationships. Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest (1997) forestalls the ethical dilemmas of advanced technology and artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the context of organ trade, surveillance, and economic disparity. In this paper, we will consider the case of Harvest in the context of the Theory of Technology Supremacy and AI ethics, and the ways, in which technological discontinuity influences the life of Om Prakash, Jaya, Ma, Jeetu, and Virgil. Using the primary textual analysis and the secondary literature, the paper claims that technology in Harvest is not a neutral tool but rather a driving force that infringes privacy, capitalizes on vulnerability, and consumes the human self-sufficiency. The vision that Padmanabhan depicts is very terrifyingly relevant in the era of global reconnaissance capitalism, as a warning of an unquestioning faith in technology.