Invention Is the Mother of Necessities

Technology and science has a major impact on our daily lives, especially cell phones and the Internet. People everywhere take for granted the technology that they have access to everyday, and they would not know what to do without it because they rely on it for almost every aspect in their life. Christopher Columbus would have made it to India if he was able to utilize the technology society is so accustomed to

Impact of Technology On Society Sesan Akerewusi University of Windsor Abstract Technology surrounds us and has dramatically affected the way we live in this present society. From entertainment devices such as the television, communication devices such as the iPhone, life-saving devices such as defibrillators and educational devices such as Microsoft and Apple computers, technology appears to have numerous benefits in certain fields of human life. Today, technology and human lifestyle are like a set that cannot be separated. According to research conducted by technology enthusiast Lulu Chang, the average human spends an alarming 4.7 hours a day on his/her phone, and 8.4 hours a day on media devices in general (Chang, 2015). We live in an

Klare argues that discovery of a natural resource, for instance, oil, result to producers seeking and exploiting the most desirable, best quality and those closest to markets. Over time, these resources become scarce, of poorer quality, harder to extract and extend into the further away area from the market hence need for discovery of other means of obtaining the resource. These means may cause several problems, which may include;

To increase these sources we must produce more, and to achieve this we must use our

cannot live without. The question is, will the rising use of technology be a detriment or a

With all this increase in technology use, the question arises, what impact does all this

the future we don’t use the non-renewable all at the same time and run out of them.

When thinking of technology your optimism affects your answer extremely. If you tend to focus on the negative you might think technology distracts us from the people actually present and if you focus on positivity than you would maybe like how technology can entertain us or make things easier. In the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ we see how different perspectives look at technology and how it affects different characters lives.

Technology has a huge influence on the American culture and American society. Over the past couple years technology has made a big impact on everyone's lives, whether they realize it or not. Anywhere you go or anything you do you will come in contact with technology. The Doctors office, The Dentists office, The Grocery store, your workplace, School, Restaurants would all be a completely different place without technology. I think the piece of technology that has the biggest impact on everyone's lives would probably be a computer or a laptop. In my life a laptop has played a big role in my life these past couple of years in school and during my education.

What this quote means to me is that when adversity happens in life, it can cause people to want to make changes to help the situation; therefore, they must be creative to overcome their struggle. I can allude to Ella Minnow Pea where Ella’s father, Amos, created a new pangram to replace Nevin Nollop’s old phrase. He was being banished off the island and needed a solution so that he would not be sent away from his family. His necessity of wanting to stay with his family and for that this rule to be gone caused him to invent the new pangram that would end up getting the rule removed, saving the townspeople from further punishment. This has just been one fictional example of necessity causing invention due of adversity, but there have been many more real-life historical and modern-day

“Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour…”. People in today's society think that it is a need to have the newest and best technology today; however, some people can’t have the latest technology, and they are just as

“need” of usage, stemming for lifestyle choices. As the barrier to entry is relatively low

It is evidenced throughout history in the fact that the nations and people who have distinguished themselves on a global level have been those with the most brilliant minds of their time. Watson astutely observed: “Throughout history, certain countries and civilisations have glittered for a while, then for one reason or another been eclipsed.” (p. 2). He goes on to say, “This is perhaps the most important lesson we can learn from a history of ideas: that intellectual life – arguably the most important, satisfying and characteristic dimension to our existence – is a fragile thing, easily destroyed or wasted.” (p. 2). It is my conviction that it is the thirst for knowledge and the desire to continually advance intellectually that distinguishes individuals as well as nations from their counterparts, frequently accounting for their advancement on the global scene developmentally, medically, and

world's vitality needs, and later on, oil is relied upon to keep on giving a main part of

"Technology alone is not enough...It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing."