Technostress: Welcome to the Dark Side / Tehnostresul: bine ai venit la partea obscură a tehnologiei!

Excess turns into poison, addiction, or both.With the advent of AI, technology is no longer a neutral tool, placing the burden of outcome on the user, but one with initiative, survival needs and obscure goals, disrupting every aspect of human experience.We used to create technology around our way of life; now, we create our life around technology as we are turning from knowledge holders into knowledge curators of "black box" data streams we no longer fully control or understand.Even worse, from using tech tools, we became users of abilities we no longer have as we injected them into technology that makes us perfectly dependent on pay-per-click or subscription models and updates.In music, technostress arises from a constellation of forces: relentless connectivity, the breakneck pace of technological evolution, the erosion of traditional creative and pedagogical workflows and the advent of "tools" meant to utterly replace the artist.Confronting this crisis demands more than upgraded platforms -it calls for a multidimensional response that combines technological solutions with human-centred strategies to promote wellbeing and adaptability among music professionals, one that truly pairs innovation with vision and a genuine understanding of the role of music in human development.