Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. It can make the lives of people better or it can completely make everything inconvenient. Technology has gone from something that was once complex to something used on the daily. It, in fact, may be destroying and taking over society. This idea is proposed in both “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury, however, presents the most disturbing and cruel views on technology and society.

What do we understand from the word ‘technology’? Technology is defined as the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences. It originates from the Greek word ‘tekhnologia’ which means systematic treatment. In this modernised era, technology is a major part in our society. People depend on technology with a growing need as it benefits many and solves numerous problems in our daily life. However, for every advantage technology brings us, it also brings disadvantages, especially in the aspects of creativity and communication.

First of all, phishing attack is a kind of social engineering, where the attacker try to find out your login name and password simply by requesting. They usually pretends to be an authority figure, such as banking system, with a sense of urgency (for example if you don’t send your password, your account could potentially be froze). It is like an impersonation and deceit.

Phishing is a kind of social engineering attack in which criminals use spoofed emails to trick people into sharing sensitive information or installing malware on their computers. Victims perceive these emails as associated with a trusted brand, while in reality they are the work of con artists. Rather than directly targeting the systems people use, phishing attacks target the people using those systems. Phishing cleverly circumvents the vast majority of an organization's security measures. It doesn't matter how many firewalls, encryption software, certificates, and two-factor authentication mechanisms an organization has if the person behind the keyboard falls for a phish. On the surface, phishing attacks may seem to be a variant of spam.

World changing, revolutionary, and mind-blowing is what this world demands and rotates around by an item called technology. Technology is flourishing and is altering the world as time passes by. Articles support this by using evidence and scientific reasons. Scientific advancements have many purposes to it such as helping the world, finding out new things or socializing with others. Although technology is a great thing, it has many cons to it. Technology is a dangerous resource in the world that has evolved into many forms of everyday life that should be stopped because of the dangerous advancements like gene drives that can go wrong and harm people, robots that see humans as their enemies, and even robots that can outsmart humans.

Advanced and developed robotic technology might just be the best thing that has happened to the world. All of the technology improving has got everyone where they are today. From updating people on emergency news, to using gps on the cellphone when lost, to quicker ways of diagnosing in hospitals. Robotic developments do have its downside on its improvements. But today’s technology is very useful on cellphones, in the medical field, and the space exploration.

Nowadays, technology takes over the world as penetrate through human life. The biggest effects would be teenagers as they use technology more often. The technology impacts the family environment, social relationships with people; health of people that do not have rational use of technology, creativity, and focus.

Everyday our modern society is introduced to new forms of technology that are created to enhance the efficiency of our daily lives, this may come in the form of cellphones, computers, cars, and even robots to an extend. In recent years I’ve noticed that the development of our society as a collective has come to a holt, the same technology created to make us more efficient on a day to day basis is becoming a dangerous distraction at all times only allowing a few individuals who choose to be off the grid to succeed. The biggest distraction at our disposal today are cellphones; cellphones or smartphones are great, you can speak to anyone through call and text, and use hundreds of apps to stay entertained at all hours of the day to battle boredom. Cellphone technology has advanced ridiculously in the past 20 years allowing our devices to do more than what we intended for them and as a result we have found ways to exploit it for entertainment allowing for us to receive stimuli (pleasure) at all hours of the day in turn harming our attention spam and our ability to interact with others.

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Technology has advanced tremendously over time, from the beginning of time when we first discovered how to create fire and when we invented the first wheel. As time advanced we advanced and created new innovations upon objects or inventions. Now today our government has bunches of nuclear missiles, our food is genetically modified and we're all connected by the internet. Bountiful amounts of people have all different opinions on the idea of technology regarding how far it has come along. Here, one can find out why these advancements have been beneficial to society as an entirety.

“We now rely on external brains…” says Amber Case in her TedTalk “We Are All Cyborgs Now.” Technology has been used to do great things like save others from natural disasters, detect illnesses, and much more. However, with technology, people can also do bad. Social media has been used for harassment and bullying, phones are often hacked or stolen. Technology is not black or white, it is not good or bad; it is simply a tool that we have at our disposal to further ourselves.

Phishing can be compared with fishing in a lake, instead of trying to capture fish, phishers goal is to steal your personal information. Phishing being one of the easiest forms of cyber-attack for a criminal to carry out which can provide crucial information of the an individual and the information can be anything like passwords, account numbers, credit card details etc.

Technology is a very controversial topic in our modern day world. Because of the controversy of the inclusion of technology in the education system, the overuse and abuse of technology, and how it is affecting the way we behave and think in the world, various authors and producers over the years have commented about the increasing use and incorporation of technology in today’s world through their work. Many authors have very different views on the topic, some such as Ann Woo and Vannear Bush argue that technology is a positive addition to our society, where other influential individuals such as Neal Gabler, Nicholas Carr, and Charlie Brooker each argue that technology is having a negative influence on our society and will in the future

Technology has both optimistic and harmful effects on humanity. It is remarkable how someone can find an old friend through a social network, enabling them to reconnect. In a society where people have become quite mobile and family and friends are often separated, due to work, school or whatever the case may be, it is convenient to keep in touch through technology. I would like to say that technology does not technically ruin our lives, but it does make an effect on how we as human beings exploit our feelings and emotions during face-to-face interactions, rather than text or instant messaging someone how you feel about them. Technology has changed the way we communicate with one another, how we organize information, also the way we think.

Today children are practically born with an electronic device. From a very young age, children are taught how to use technology for entertaining and educational purposes. Some kids seem to understand technology better than some adults. According to a 2010 newsroom from the America Academy of Pediatrics, “children and adolescent spend more time with the media than they do in other activity except for sleeping. The vast majority of young people have access to a bedroom television, computer, the Internet, a video game console, and cellphone”. Although, this can be a great advantage for children it can also be a great disadvantage.