Is Technology Changing The Lives Of Billions?

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

Although society has been spoiled in many ways by technology,some may argue an apposing position. Technology comes with many conveniences, but there are also many shortcomings with it. In many ways it could actually be ruining society. The main question is when does the line become crossed between using technology as a convenience and abusing it to the point that it hinders society. The following argument will point it out.

In an age where technology is so advanced that robots replace humans in the workplace, it is no surprise that increasingly fewer Americans are considered full-time employees. While proponents of advancement argue that technology adds a high level job for every low level job it takes away, low class manufacturing jobs will not be the only newly-automated jobs. Due to rapid advancement, computers are projected to be one thousand times more powerful in the 2030s than computers today (McChesney and Nichols, 2016, 246). With these improvements, no human’s job is safe.

The debate over whether robots are helping or hurting the workplace is more heated than ever. Advances in technology are soaring thus making an increase in the use of robots in the workplace more and more commonplace. Some believe the use of robots in the workplace can never totally result in the loss of jobs, but due to the fact that robots have invaded the workplace environment, many people fear this indicates replacement of human jobs. Although advancement in technology of robotics and artificial intelligence may offer precision, productivity, efficiency and flexibility, the loss of human jobs will be devastating to the many people who depend on their jobs to make a living and provide for their families.

Being able to instantly gather information is easier than it has ever been before. People can go on the internet, press a few buttons and are given an endless amount of information. Do not anything about the topic, just Google it and it will provide the information that is needed. It has come to the point where people rely on the internet daily. However, there are downsides to having technology surrounding society most of the time. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” from the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr, a writer and former member of Britannica’s Encyclopedia editorial board of advisors, expresses how technology is negatively changing how we think and act because of the influences people get from the technology

Through technology, people can connect with others and know what is going on in their lives, even if they live on the other side of the Earth. Technology makes easier for people to know what is going on around the world and makes people worry about the things they should not be. People can find all the information that the world has to offer online and people do not know what to do with it. So on the internet people just skim through whatever they were looking or reading. In article “Smart technology is making us Dumber” Carlson, Dan argues “that we are losing the ability to read deeply and, by implication, to think deeply” That is true because I personally do not completely read the articles on the internet and even if sometimes I do read the articles completely, I forget what the first part of the article was about. This happens to a lot of younger and my age group people because we are not focused instead we are thinking about irrelevant things like what we are going do after or what game are we going to play. Eventually, we are going to lose the ability to understand the real meaning behind

In today’s day and age, it is safe to assume that technology is everything. In daily lifestyles of a normal person, it will become very hard to live without the use of technology. From waking up early in the morning with the help of an alarm clock, to going to sleep at night time by listening to soft sounds on a smartphone. not only the more modern generation, however all people have been inspired via technology in some manner, shape, or form. Today, from computers to laptops, smartphones to smart glasses, everything that a person needs is turning into “smart.” Or so one thinks! In the article, “is google making us stupid?" the author Nicholas Carr shares many remarkable insights about his views on technology advancing. Technological advance is affecting every person from early adolescent to an elderly person. As using

Technology is slowly taking over our lives. Individuals can chat with their loved ones whenever they want, even those who are many miles away. With a click of a button, one can purchase something from halfway around the world. Perhaps more importantly, technology is changing the way we access information; anything is accessible in mere seconds. This implementation has resulted in the most aware society of all time. Most information is just a quick and simple Google search away. An article, written by Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid? “ in a 2008 issue for The Atlantic magazine, questioned the negative cognitive effects of the world wide web. Carr recognizes how much we rely on the internet and believes that humanity needs reform. According to Carr, we rely on technology too much! In the article Carr dives into detail and supports his argument by providing research facts and personal examples. Even though Carr believes the excessive use of the internet will inevitably turn humans into machines, I believe that the internet has benefited us in various ways. Carr does not see that the western fast paced lifestyle has caused us to lose our ability to focus on reading. Using technology will not turn us into robots, but instead it allow us to always be connected. Therefore, we should welcome technology openly.

Technology has become a powerful resource that changes our brain’s activity. Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and a graduate from Harvard University, believes that technology will have an overall negative impact on humans. However, Clive Thompson, the author of “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” and a freelance contributor to well-known publications like the New York Times Magazine, disagrees with Carr. Both authors agree that technology can be efficient and help accomplish tasks, but Carr also accredits technology for decreasing the amount of concentration and contemplation possible by the average human. Furthermore, Carr concludes that making the internet as our primary knowledge source will decrease our ability to read books, long passages, and will diminish our learning experience. However, Thompson conceives that humans will adapt to the latest changes and retain what is valuable from the venerable times.

I have grown more scared of the world now that technology is over running our life. German Theoretical Physicist, Albert Einstein once said “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction, the world will have a generation of idiots”. When we hear that we don’t really think much of it, a dead famous scientist words, they mean nothing right? Or do they? In the book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr makes the case that technology is inducing an intellectual decay in our brains. On the website fortune.com Bruce Friedman blogged It’s a provocative

In Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, he claims that Google is making us think differently. He tells us about his own troubles and those of his colleagues, that they can no longer deep read or deep think. Carr gives examples from the past and connects them to what is happening in our present. He also provides a look into what our future may look like with our continued use of technology in our everyday lives. Carr delivers many convincing points in his article and really explains to the reader that their electronic devices and the Internet are creating a shallower person. He provides an insight to the other side of his argument, the side that believes technology is changing our world for the better. Both sides of the argument can be understood. However, Carr’s side of the argument persuades me more to become a skeptic of new advances. Technology is changing the way we think, act, and connect with each other; the more advanced we become the more disconnected we get.

Technology has made a big difference in our society such as communication, work, education, and entertainment in good and bad ways. Some people say that technology has made life better with the internet, cell phones and other devices. While others say technology has been making life worse because people are becoming lazy and replace their lives with technology every day. Technology surrounds almost everyone in modern society and it affects our lives in many ways.

We are so dependent on technology that we don’t see how it actually affects us. Technology in a way is making us dumber, lazier, and it also has its positive things like improving our reflex. No one would have guessed that what we created to make our life easier, would be affecting our brains. Now that technology is getting easier to use, everyone will be looking for the easiest and fastest way to solve problems and will end up endangering the world. The new generation is already lazy enough and with the improvements that technology is having, it will end up making them lazier, not all of them because there’s people who actually take advantage of technology and use it to help them improve their knowledge. But we can also see that many students don’t study anymore, they just look for everything they need on google, and this will eventually affect them. And if we don’t do anything about this, the future generation will be at stake, they will be looking for the easiest and fastest way to solve problems and will end up making their future harder. This issue will matter to the people who see that technology is making other people stupid, but it isn’t always like that, it depends on the person who is using it. People will get dumber and people will get smarter because of it.

Every day we use some form of technology. From the sound of the alarm on our cellphones waking us up to the ping of notifications, tweets, and news that interest us; we eat and breathe technology. In a world full of apps for everything and computers connecting us worldwide, we are living the good life. Ask yourself, when was the last time you were able to go an hour without your cell phone? your tablet? technology? Can you count change without waiting for the register to tell you the amount due? Why do we believe everything we research on the computers is valid? We no longer wear watches or learn how to tell time, watch weather on TV, or even calculate the miles for a road trip. The progression of technology has improved the quality of our life and how we live. Many people believed this progress is worth it. However, all progress has a cost? Do you ever think what that cost might be? We are so dependent on technology that without it would we be able to live? Is it dangerous? What would happen if it all went away?

Technology has acquired a negative reputation mostly from the generations on the outside looking in. In other words, those who haven’t grown up in the era of technology often find ways to criticize it claiming that it has negatively impacted our upcoming generation. The article, Is Google making us stupid?, provides insight on the this issue by saying, “...it also seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.” and follows up by stating, “we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s and 1980s...”. Our generation has found a way to stop reading as our parents and previous generations once did which is interpreted as lazy and a disadvantage. However, we are reading more than we ever have which is actually impacting us in a beneficial way. Likewise, the older