Benefits Of Technology In The United States

Nowadays, as technology gradually integrates into our lives, more and more people start to consider a question: does technology really bring people advantages, or just more problems? Concerning this question, different authors including Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Carr, and Sherry Turkle convey their opinions.

It is a fact that we have a longer life expectancy than ever before. This has been achieved through years of thorough research, technological development, and most importantly resilient individuals. Doctors are constantly faced with different enigmas with no right or wrong answer. What first attracted me toward medicine was the desire to help and support, in particular, disadvantaged people. Coming from a country with an underdeveloped health care system has made me realised the impact it has on people’s life.

From the time when the first English colonies were established in North America until now, there has been some form of armed fighting force in place to protect the interests of the United States and its colonial progenitors. During the roughly four centuries in which this fighting force has existed, it has undergone numerous changes of varying degrees of significance. Technological advances have changed the nature of both defensive and offensive warfare, political advances have changed the nature of the relationship between the civilian population and its protectors, and geostrategic shifts have changed the role of the United States military with respect to the rest of the world. The most lasting and meaningful changes have occurred

Since the turn of the 20th century, modern medicine has made significant advancements in treating the progression of disease. Diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and several cancers are easily managed in today’s medical community. Yet, just a century ago, those diseases would ensure a swift and unfortunate demise. Since the mid 1960s, the emergence of technological advancements and treatment modalities has increased the U.S. population’s life expectancy. Presently, life can be extended for years due to the development and use of ventilators, gastro-intestinal tubes, and hemodialysis in terminally ill patients. With of the spark medical innovation, an unanticipated dilemma has developed within the holds of modern medicine and the U.S.

Medicine has been used since ancient times, but it has greatly developed through the centuries. Today, people have doctors, nurses, surgeons, therapists, and many other individuals in the health field. Society’s definition of a healthy lifestyle, and the way people live, has greatly changed, and it has given most people a new perspective on society 's health. Before medications and doctors, people often died, or had no way to recover from illnesses and disease, because there were no cures. Advances in medicine are made every day. These advances could be a new allergy medication, a new vaccine to prevent a deadly disease, or a new way of performing surgeries, but all of these advances have one thing in common: they can save lives and make a better America.

The aging population in America is growing quickly and is projected to double by the year 2050. The current growth in the number and proportion of older adults in the United States is unprecedented in our nation’s history. By 2050, it is anticipated that Americans aged 65 or older will number nearly 89 million people (The State of Aging and Health in America, 2013). Along with this increase in the aging population, it is estimated that by the year 2020, 157 million Americans will have some form of chronic illness (Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Society, 2005). With advances in medicine, people are able to live longer lives with chronic illnesses that in the past resulted in a decreased life expectancy.

Since the medical field’s discovery, advances are a necessity to keep up with the ever growing knowledge of the human body and what affects it. Doctors and scientists have been able to prevent an illness or reduce the symptoms of most illnesses that were considered lethal, such as influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS/HIV, polio, and the common cold. By virtue of technology, life-saving discoveries found in one country can be spread worldwide. These discoveries have led the way to the practices doctors use today to give a patient the best chance at a healthy long life, and it shows; the life expectancy in North America during the 1800s was roughly forty years (Pinsker). Today the life expectancy has dramatically risen to roughly eighty years. The

that whatever illness befalls them, there is will be a treatment regimen that will bring relief.

Technology has definitely improved the quality of American lives. But technology only impacts lives in certain ways. Technology seems to be a way to rise efficiency. What people don’t realize is that efficiency does not certainly lead to higher quality of life. In an industry like graphic designing, it is almost a fact that the same job 20 years ago took 10 times longer to complete. This meaning that today technology has increased efficiency and helped make more jobs be completed easier. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are getting paid more money but are just required to produce x amount more per year. The employers of the firms or the people who have hired them are also not benefiting from this. Therefore, no one benefits from efficiency. The reason for this is because the stock market will always adjust itself and even with whatever the efficiency level may be. Oddly, technology also increases the efficiency of the market to adjust itself. No matter how efficient we can become the value of a single person’s hour will always remain the same. 10 years ago earning enough money in an hour and only doing 10 tasks is equal to a person doing that same job but completing a 100 of those tasks thanks to technology. Our historical perspectives have definitely been altered by technology.

As we know that HIPAA complaints are increasing as the use of technology is increasing in United States. Mobile devices are helpful when it comes to work. However, it all depend who is going to use it and in which way. It can be used to help the patient by and it can also exploit the patient. For example, before administering a drug nurses can use smartphone to know about a drug side effects and indication which is new in the market. On the other hand, nurse can take picture of the patient and patient’s information which looks “cool” according to the nurse and exposed patient information for her/his personal interest. According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, the complaint of HIPAA violation has reached 12,915 in 2013. This number is dramatically increasing every year. ("Health Information Privacy Complaints Received by Calendar Year," n.d.). As health care professionals this is our responsibility to make our organization HIPAA compliant. Even though an individual working in health care can HIPAA proof his/her devices by following the guideline provided by HIPAA and healthit.gov. ("Mobile Health Security: HealthIT.gov," n.d.)

Therefore, the United States environmental technology has experienced development in the last 10 years. For example, computers and laptops or even smart phones are the main important device that each person must have, because people thinks these devices makes their life easier and quicker. It has made our life easier by bringing its best solution to education such as schools. In my opinion, technology has enhanced our lives by providing many simple services without doing any physical movement. And it also enhanced the levels of education and established world countries to foster economic development.

The United States, and along with the rest of the world, it is experiencing a new technological revolution. In the late 1800s/ the early 1900s, the US culture, society, and notably economy, were profoundly transformed by the Industrial Revolution. The new innovations were steadily churned out by brilliant and intrepid inventors, and as a result products were churned out at unprecedented rates. Today, we see the US in a new technological revolution. It can be called the Digital Revolution, or Information Revolution, but it mainly refers to the astounding pace of increase in computing power, and its various implications in our lives, from e-assistants to social media to driver-less cars.

On the other hand, there are benefits of technology. To begin a refrigerator, stove, and other items in a household are a technology that are efficient and create a safe environment and create a more time efficient process. Technology is also providing many health benefits. It provides new advancements in drugs or medications. As well as in surgeries and surgical advancements.

Many inventions have been claimed to be advantageous in today’s society. Every so often, there’s someone who tries to defend the good over the bad. In this essay we will consider the positive and negative effects of technical advances and how they have affected today’s society.

The evolution of technology has changed society in both positive and negative ways. People all over the world use and benefit from modern technology. Technology has simplified the access to many tools people need in education, medicine, communication, transportation, etc. However, using it too often has its drawbacks as well. In most cases, the time of finishing projects is cut by more than half with the help of technology. Many people do not realize that technology has its negative affects society as well, and its rapid advances has changed life for worse in a number of different ways.