Disadvantages Of Technology

Technology has always been a controversial subject between conservative people and innovators. Some people believe that it is a great tool to connect cultures and improve education and innovation in our society today, but others view it as a menace in our lives. “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle and “George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg” by Lori Andrews both view technology as a dangerous tool. They believe in the many drawbacks of technology and the harm it can do to our lives with no explanation of the positive effects it has had on our society. “Our Future Selves” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen plays the role of a positive look at technology and its role in our lives today. It gives examples of how advancing technology helps us and improves so many peoples’s lives. We can use Schmidt and Cohen’s essay as a lens to view the other two texts and gain a different understanding of what they are writing about.

The topic covered here is digital technology, two things coming together to have one outcome. Digital~ displaying a readout or results in numerical rather than a pointer etc., technology a branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelations with life, society and the environment or just the way human provide themselves with material objects to enhance civilization through such inventions so therefore digital technology is the combination of the two which is a branch of scientific or engineering knowledge that deals with the creation or practical use of digital or computerised devices, methods or systems.

The effects of technology usage have long been a topic of debate, with the negative consequences often being brought up. Authors such as Robert Samuels, Alison Gopnik, Nicholas Carr, Gary Small and Vorgan Gigi have all addressed this topic in their own articles. In Samuels’ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms,” he discusses the creation of private bubbles in public spaces due to technology, and the consequent alienation of others. “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution” by Gopnik argues that the habits that tech users have today have always existed, while Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” states that technology is actively changing the way humans think. “Meet Your iBrain” by Gigi and Small covers how technology affects brains and alters them. This paper will use the articles and an interview with a peer to analyze the perceived negative effects of using technology, particularly worse memory, shorter attention span, exacerbation of bad habits, and shifting emotions.

There has been a ton of turmoil about the internet. A controversial issue on whether the internet is more helpful or hurtful to the human brain. On one hand, Nicholas Carr argues that technology may be weakening human abilities for deeper reading, an old fashion type of learning. Carr believes that relying on computers will cause humans intelligent to decline. On the other end, there’s Clive Thompson. Thompson presents computers as a digital tool that assists people in their everyday life. Providing phenomenal external memory, social connections, and endless availability of resources. Both, Carr and Thompson, believe that the internet can act as a tool that shapes the way humans think. Which brings us to the dilemma, is the internet a technological apocalypse or a promising utopia?

With increasing numbers of smart phones and devices connected to the internet, the world has entered the digital era with huge amount of digital content (Bhargava & Klat, 2017). New technologies : Internet of Things (IoT), big data, platforms of sharing economies, and gamification are the feul of digital transformation (Panetta, 2016). Many industries will face disruptive waves of innovation using these new technologies. Disruption can be harmful if it came from an outsider. Traditional transportation companies have to change their strategies and business models to survive against new transportation platform applications such as Uber, Careem, and others (Daus & Taye, 2016). Hotels and resorts are facing new competition from Airbnb (McDermott, 2017). Airbnb is a leading accomodation platform based on crowdsourcing (Zimmerman, 2016). All these new technologies/platforms are studied in depth by several reserachers to know their benefit and impact on businesses (Boudreau & Lakhani, 2013). Benefits are mainly diversity, scalability, and sharing assets. This is beside the social and economical impact that can be revolutionary (Ferrari & Fidanboylu, 2013).

Technology is changing at a very rapid pace, so much so that it is challenging to grasp; however, it is not just a tool, but a way of life for everyone around the world. Trusts (2016) believes, “technology continuously proves itself to be indispensable to our lives, to an extent where it holds a degree of influence over us” (p. 1). As we become a more digital society, it is only natural it would affect colleges and universities way of teaching. Generation Y are a diverse group of students born in or after 1982, and their preferred learning styles are influenced by their peers, and include interactive computer technologies. By providing dynamic and enduring practices, teachers can create an atmosphere that permit their students to have a meaningful learning experience (Trees, 2013).

Technology and computers are what our lives revolve around these days. We have answers at the tip of fingers. We no longer need to thumb through an encyclopedia to research a topic. We can go to our laptop, smart phone or tablet and within seconds we can enter a topic and before we can say “encyclopedia”, we will have what seems to be an endless amount of information just waiting for us to dive into it. Just as technology has allowed for positive growth and change to be possible, it has also opened up windows of opportunity for criminals too. Just as we can find out all we ever wanted to know about hummingbirds, criminals have been given a way to find out everything about us without our knowledge or permission. Criminals don’t have to hide in the shadows of night and lay in wait for their victim. Technology has taken the risk out of being a criminal. Instead, criminals can select their victims from the comfort of their own home. A pedophile is no longer a dirty looking man who stalks kids at the local park waiting for just the right second to grab an innocent child and make them their victim. They no longer need to worry who might see them or be able to describe them to the police. Instead they can take their time, pose as any sex, any age, anything they want to be. They don’t have the high level of risk as they did before technology. Now they can get the victim to accept their “friend request”, they can find out their victims likes and dislikes. The possibilities are

In the succesful of education 4.0 its give the many benefit on the nation industry. At the previous decade, industry 1.0 is based on mechanical production equipmnet that is driven by steam power, and water power is used to create mechanical production facilities .Industry 2.0 is based on mass production enable by the division labour to produce electric power.

Humans have dominated the Earth for thousands of years, we created a vibrant and wonderful world. However, as we continue developing ourselves, we also created something that slowly takes over humans’ world, technology. Technology is what human’s endeavor to make our lives convenient. Along with the development of human beings, technology is one of the shiniest stars in the human history. The impacts that technology brings to humans are controversial. Some people believe that technology provides a higher living standard. However, in my opinion, technology has a negative effect on human behavior because it keeps human away from the “real” social life, it makes humans think slow, and it leads to addiction.

“Technology may empower, but to what end will that power be used?” said Levine in I Surf, Therefore I Am (224). The empowerment of technology simply comes down to the way it is used. More recently; however, the Internet has become some sort of replacement in the way students learn today. With the use of the Internet and little to no interaction with physical books, people can become uneducated rather easily. In today’s society, most everyone has access to the Internet; however, it is the way we use it that helps determine our success.

Modern technology is simply an advancement of old technology, the impact of technology in modern life is unmeasurable, we use technology in different ways and sometimes the way we implement various technologies ends up harming our lives or the society we leave in. What we call modern technology is technically not so new in most cases. For example, mobile phone technology has evolved with years, nowadays we use smartphones which have been an advancement of an ordinary mobile phone.

Today, it is easier than ever to access information. If one can read and has access to the Internet, he or she has virtually all of mankind’s knowledge at his or her fingertips, whereas only a generation ago, one would need to go to the library if he or she wanted to learn new information. It seems that people today take this privilege for granted, not realizing that the ability to look up on a search engine the average height of a giraffe, for example, would have been highly coveted only fifty years ago. People can get knowledge with less effort today, but perhaps the wide variety of sources we have access to presents a new set of challenges. While knowledge was a coveted resource in the past, perhaps the ability to choose the most credible source when given a wide range of options to choose from is more coveted today and in the future. Modern technology has vastly impacted the way people participate in school, their community, and the world at large.

In this modern era, people nowadays are getting carried away with the advancing technology. It is because technology has become a necessity in people’ life. If people nowadays live without technology, they are nothing because technology gave human big impact in their life. This statement can be proven when nothing work can be done by people nowadays if this world have no technology. For example people nowadays can not communicate if there were no cellphone. This incident had proved that our daily life very depended to technology. Everything in this world has their own advantaged as well as the opposite. Same goes to technology. It has its own advantages in giving people’s nowadays creativity and communication impact or affect but it also have its own disadvantages that we can not avoid easily.

The average amount of time people expend on their digital devices surpasses the amount of sleep they receive in a days’ time. Within today’s society technology reigns over every aspect of life. However, one element has eluded this sovereignty all the while remaining prevalent in our world still exists. This entity that has survived is simply called school. Although the current education system has remained constant for millennia, it is time for the past to interchange into the future. The upbringing of the digital age has arrived and with it a new era will be born where education will be ever closer to the grasps of the young, the intellectual, and the curious. Tech-based learning holds the potential of substantially transforming the way

People need to find a balance between the conveniences of technology and living their life to the fullest. Technology is slowly impeding on our social lives and creeping into our relationships and daily activities. People have become overly dependent on their technological devices. The constant use of devices hinders the ability to communicate effectively with those around us and to participate fully in life experiences. Prior to the development of cellphones, and other handheld devices, people made eye contact when communicating with others, held conversations more effectively, and would make an effort to talk to strangers more often than they do now. In modern day society, more eye contact is occurring with our phones, while