How Technology Has Changed Our Lives

I think that new technology needs to be prevalent in our daily lives. Modern medicine has made so many advancements because of new technology. I do think in our daily, personal lives, that we are way too dependent, but with new technology, it can help save lives or make better structures, we need to be dependent on advancements. People have become addicted to the phones or tablets. They cannot socialize without constantly looking down at their phone. Some even use their cell phones in inappropriate places or times. Everything around a cell phone user, seems to be invisible to them. They do not seem to have time for others.

Technology is defined as machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. Its original use was meant solely for the service of humans, however overtime it has evolved into something much different. What was originally meant to be an assisting piece of machinery has changed almost every aspect of our culture. The way we think, communicate, lie, and even love has been impacted by the use of technology, and all of this is has made for interesting pieces of literature. In pieces such as Her and I, Robot, we see the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence into a more empathetic and humanlike creatures. This gradual change in our views of robots overtime speaks volumes to the evolution of technology. Technology in literature has become a reflection of human beings themselves, mirroring the very qualities of ourselves that make us human. By looking at the personality that technology takes on in literature, we can greater understand the aspects of ourselves that truly make us human.

Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and professor of the social studies and technology at the Massachusetts institute, wrote the article “The Flight from Conversation”. In this article, Turkle mainly discusses the impact of

Dear mom and dad, I know you don’t believe I have a need for a smartphone, but lately it has become more apparent that I do. With the increased use of technology in everyday life as well as in school, I am being left behind and it’s putting me at a major advantage when compared to my peers. Please put yourself in my shoes and realize that with the world depending more and more on phones, my immediate future may be compromised if I don’t have a cellphone. Aaron Smith says “. . . nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone…” (Smith 1). This just shows how today, smartphones are basic and widespread in our society.

Two girls sit in silence together, one on her laptop the other on her phone. They sit across the table from one another. They obviously know one another, but say nothing as they eat and work. A college aged boy talks loudly on the phone in the dining hall, sitting by himself. He is gesticulating wildly to his conversational partner, despite the other person being an undeterminable distance from him from the point of view of the observer. In the middle of a conversation with his friend at dinner, a boy pulls out his cell phone and checks something. The friends stops talking and checks his phone as well. Conversation ceases.

Many people don’t ever think twice about posting their personal information online. They enjoy using many features that are made available to them on social media. Including tagging their location, posting pictures of themselves, and filling in their bio and profile with information about them. Technology has grown into something that is so easily accessible and convenient. One can now shop from the leisure of their home without ever moving from their sofa or changing out of their pajamas. What many people don’t know is that tech companies such as Facebook and Google track their online activity and are constantly storing and selling their information. A user may also willingly offer their information to these companies when they ask for it

Are you ready to upgrade your life style? Every day, People are working on making their lives easier and more meaningful. For that reason, there are new innovations that get public each day somewhere in this world. Technology has been helping people become smart and efficient in everything they do from preparing their food to having direct and visual communications with distant societies. Not only did technology help normal people, but also disabled people, people with autism, people with blindness, and generally people with special needs. Thanks to modern technology, it is allowing people with special needs to improve themselves and contribute to societies by carrying out routine work at home, school, and work. As technology and innovations advance every hour, people are promised to do what their ancestors could not do or live. Today, we can find a smart phone or a tablet at almost any household and company. Although they are considered small devices, smart phones and tablets contain many features that enable people to multitask and exchange information and data. People heavily rely on these devices to store their important data and perform their jobs and conduct businesses. Knowledge is power, and in order for people to work efficiently and happily, they need quality data to know more about themselves and everything around them. People will be more powerful when they are able to integrate and utilize all of the available data. For this reason, scientists and innovators

Technology is all around us, the clothes we wear, the homes we live in, and the way we get our food and water, are all due to technology. From the time we come into this world till the time we leave, technology is part of who we are and what we do, yet we take for granted the inventions that make our lives a little more comfortable, happier, and a little less lonely. Through technology time and space seem to diminish; creating a connection between people that otherwise would not have existed. Once a piece of technology becomes part of everyday use, it melds into people’s lives seamlessly and future generations won’t know a time without it. The cell phone is one technology that has been around long enough to fuse into the lives of the young, but older generations can still remember life without this chunk of machinery.

The world has come very far with respect to technology. In reality, technology, social media, and smart phones have breached the mainstay in our everyday lives in a short period of time. Gone are the days of cassette and VHS tapes. Gone are the days of typewriters and cursive handwriting. Those outdated technologies have been replaced with tablets, smartphones, and social media websites like Facebook. The same types of technologies have found its way into healthcare. Lambert, K., Barry, P., & Stokes, G. (2012) state that, “Social media has infiltrated all of our lives both personally and professionally.” For better or for worse these technologies have blended into our everyday lives with no end in sight therefore, knowing they aren’t going away and how we use them will say as much about ourselves and as society as a whole.

While electronics have been resourceful in today’s society, it brings us more questions than it does answers to our own behaviors. While exploring the web, playing a game, or working on important papers, machinery has become a staple in our lives, it brings to question how we interact with the rest of the world while we are separated from friends and the ones we love. We see disconnect from reality when technological advances are used to help cope with our everyday lives. While electronics and the advancement of technology brought increased communications those same advances have also created distance between one’s self and those with whom they would normally

Every major holiday like Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, my family gets together. Like a majority of families do. Growing up we would play games and tell jokes, and have a lot of fun with each other, but now, we barley even talk. It’s not because we don’t like each other it’s because of phones. If we are sitting in the living room we aren’t talking and it’s just awkward. I have 2 cousins that are younger than 2, and they are growing up attached to a screen, they are just waiting for a phone to be handed to them, or cartoons to be turned on to watch, they are growing up in a tech filled world, and I’m afraid that they’re just going to be attached to a phone just like everyone else is. . Generation Z is being raised in a world where their eyes are instantly attracted to a screen. They’re not going to know what it’s like to go outside and make up their own games, to have an imagination. This day in age their imaginations are handed to them. We are so worried about what’s happening on facebook or twitter we don’t know what’s going on around us.

If you would have told an artist back in the 1970’s that in the future there was going to be music exclusively made in a computer, with no use of actual instruments; that musicians would have portals such as iTunes, Pandora, Spotify or Soundcloud where the audience could listen to their music as they pleased on the go in their mobile phones or even their watches, they probably would have called you crazy. However, this is the reality we live in nowadays. Almost sixty years after that time and, as you walk around a campus, a mall, a park, or anywhere else with large flow of people, you will notice people being in contact with music through several ways, most ways that you observe were not even thought to be possible a century ago.

Turkle senses a standstill, pleading that we still have time to take back our lives, to draw limitations on social media, to refine technology in a way that it truly benefits us and doesn’t serve selfishly motivated actions. A better way of seeing this is learning how to turn off the cyborg in us, and how to make technology a useful and effective attachment. Technology being so deeply ingrained, we have all allowed our phones to become an extension of who we are. Students in Turkle’s research sleep with their phones, and say they know when it is ringing, like phantom limb syndrome. Our smartphones are always with us, and our profiles are always on our minds. We interact with multiple messaging services via brief conversations of abbreviations and image sharing. We speak through images, abandoning words and written language. “Memes” inducing a reaction in under a minute, due to our ability to connect hundreds of cultural contexts back to a single image. No one has spoken more than several words, sometimes none, and we are in an uproar of ideas and emotions with a glance at a single image in a “meme”. We begin to think like our machines.

Technology is often considered the key to nations’ economic growth due to the many improvements brought to society. Taking a look back in history, technology has made good changes in human life, due to the automatization and less effort spent to produce in mass. In recent years, the dependence resulting from the usage of small and powerful devices by young people to correlate with others is causing side effects associated with health disorders. Researchers are working to find the best application of technology in human life, without compromising the development of society and leverage the usage of emerging devices and services. The majority of society is more dependent on the evolving technology than they think, causing several issues to human life such as psychological effects, psychological issues, and sociological complications. What can people do in order to prevent the symptoms of emerging disorders?

When you had to wait days and weeks for that letter to arrive and you needed get that information from that person, it was frustrating. Today communication has become easier with the use of technology. I was born in a generation of technology that has made it easier for me to talk to anyone that is anywhere. It used to be only phone calls and letters the ways to communicate with someone who wasn’t near you, but not today. The development of technology has allowed us to communicate with anyone around the world in just matters of seconds. Whenever I want to know if anyone from my family is doing alright or I need to get an information from my job I just need to pick up my phone and send a message or open my laptop and maybe video chat with that person.