Technology And Its Effects On Our Lives

Computers and technology at large have changed the lives of many people in the world both positively and negatively. Computers have unveiled many things which have greatly influenced our lives. This has made many teachers and students to adopt their use in classrooms. However, the use of computers in our classrooms has been characterized by over reliance on them. Cyber space has also played key roles in our lives. For instance, there is an increase in the number of research papers done each day while, on the other hand, movies watched by students has increased. These can be controlled through regulations and legislation from the governing bodies. However, the author says that ‘Cyberspace is a voluntary destination’ and “Regardless of how many laws or lawsuit are launched, regulation won’t work”. However, many people have used virtual books for their own benefit helping them write good research papers. We will critically analyze the literature behind the use of technology, mainly computers, to see how they have influenced our lives both positively and negatively. We will also look at the effectiveness of computer usage in our classrooms today.

With the rapid development of technology and its functional applications to assist those in the daily life, society is becoming more and more dependent on these technological advances. Many, as evidenced in the article from The Onion, develop a blind-trust in all that technology has to offer and have seemingly forgotten how to think or act independently; thus, the piece satirizes consumers’ gullibility when presented with evidence from a man in a white-lab coat. Using jargon to try to establish ethos and anecdotes that cite illegitimate sources, the article develops points in a humorous way that exposes consumers and their inability to differentiate between reality and nonsense, especially when presented with seemingly “sophisticated” science.

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Picture a family in a living room silent. All you can see is the light of their tablets and phones lighting up their faces. Technology is everywhere we go. You can not walk down a street, take a plane, or go to a coffee shop without seeing someone staring at a screen. Technology can hurt us in physical and social ways.

Modern technology plays an important role in our lives like for work, school, and even play. Technology is used for entertainment, social, chatting, and finding answers. Entertainment consists of movie and T.V. apps, music apps, gaming consoles, and e-books. Entertainment use to be going out to theaters or a concert with friends, going outside to play games and reading a nice book that doesn’t have a battery. Socializing is any social media sites and chatting falls in the line of social medias. Social medias are used to keep up to date on upcoming events, birthdays, and family news. Technology makes it is easy to find answers to homework, personal and health issues. People use to have to go to the library to find answers for homework, finding answers to personal problems is supposed to be up to a counselor and doctors are supposed to diagnose a health problem not some website.

Today, electronics have become important in our daily life. Even Though modern electronics help make our lives simpler, but it can also be utilized negatively. Smartphones are no longer used only for texting and calling. They are high-tech devices that can access the internet, emails, and social media. However, arguments on whether these functions are necessary for students in high school are beginning to surface. Despite the fact that phones can be utilized educationally and serve as a learning too, this same technology can also be utilized negatively at the wrong time. In agreement with many teachers, “a fair amount of teachers say cell phones have officially replaced chewing gum as the new classroom menace. Constant ringing, chirping, buzzing and texting are interfering with lessons and student learning, and some students are storing notes on their cell phones to cheat on tests”(Hart). In order for kids to learn in a fair and healthy setting, smart phones should not be allowed in school environment because of the potential for distractions and cheatings; furthermore, it can also cause degeneration of social skills.

Technology has had a major impact on our lives, especially in the last few years. Being able to adapt to new things has definitely been a main part of these few years. There has been new technology coming into the classrooms to help teach the students. We are now beginning to rely on the advancements in technology in order to help teach our students. Smart boards are being used in teaching; ipads are another major technology being used in classrooms to teach students. We are always developing new and improved technology in order to thrive in our environment. Even our smartphones are always being improved to help better our lives, but the question is, how far should we go? Technology in the classroom is beneficial because of it’s educational purposes, but outside of the classroom can be addictive and unhealthy to people’s everyday lives.

When a person is in the desert for long periods of time and without water, often times dehydration kicks in. If that same person is dehydrated and is in a massive temperature of heat they could find mirages, or optical illusions that aren’t really there. They could, without even realizing it, kill themselves or perhaps others because of a false image. They could drive themselves deeper into the desert, or they could go to a pretend water hole because of an image. Mirages could even make them hear things that would make them want to give up. Technology has the same effect on people. Technology causes people to be drawn to it, to do unimaginable things. Technology even changes the way people think. The people become savages, they feel nothing and think of only themselves and what it is that is changing them. Ray Bradbury suggest the same thing, only he concluded this six decades ago. He predicted the live altering technology we have yet to come out with but have gotten very close to. In all of his stories he suggests somehow all the leading causes of the problems were due to our technology. He suggests technology has caused us to have warped family values, so much that we will eventually leave the love we once felt to each other in the past for our new found addiction. Bradbury even suggests technology will cause us to be cruel to one another and feel remorseless for our actions. Bradbury also suggests technology may corrupt us to the point where we all turn into psychopaths

Technology occurred before the human kind and it has improved people’s lives positively and negatively. The influence of technology is really great that it has absolutely changed our lifestyle. Computers, the Internet, Gadgets all these things have transformed our working system completely and our productivity has increased unbelievably. As everyone knows with every positive that have to be a negative, technology is really great, but it also has a huge affected every part of family life. We are spending more time indoors than we are outside. The time we spent on the computer, watching TV, and other electronics drive is about 8 hours a day. During this time, we are usually spent alone and not with the rest of the family. With all the electronics drive, we currently have, we don 't need to get out of the house anymore, you can do everything from the luxury of your home. Almost everything revolves around technology now. Don’t get me wrong, I love computer and all the technology we have now, with every new invention coming out I have them all, Apple Watch, iPhone7 Plus, iPad, new Apple TV, and new headphone, most of my product is around Apple because I love the company they produce a good product, good design, and it last for a long time. On June 29, 2007, about 9 years ago, when the first generation of the iPhone came out, people will wait outside the stores to buy it. The estimated sales of this first generation iPhone were around 250,000 and 700,000 units in the first weekend

We live in a world where technology is part of our everyday life. For instance, society eats, sleeps, and breaths their cell phone; Since people are attached to their phones, nobody cannot have a pleasant conversation without their phones being a distraction. Ever since technology has taken over our society, it has been easier for hackers to invade our privacy. Now, hackers can activate our computer or phone cameras and watch our every move. Not only is hacking our technology easier, committing cybercrimes is simpler as well. Our world relies entirely on technology, which opens the door to different types of cybercrimes, hackers, and other future online misdeeds. There’s also a psychological reason why people commit these cybercrimes.

On average people use technology eleven hours of the average waking hours of sixteen to eighteen. That is sixty one to sixty eight percent of waking time on technology. Overuse of any thing is unhealthy, especially overuse with so many adverse effects. Technology has three main categories of unhealthy effects. Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social/Environmental. Because of its wide range of unhealthy effects on several aspects of life its use should be limited. Technology has unhealthy effects on many aspects of life.

Technology is defined as “the practical application of knowledge, especially in a particular area...” (Merriam-Webster, 2016). But what do we define as “practical application?” In today’s world, technology applies to just about every aspect of our daily lives: school, work, and social media...Has it gone too far? Is it being applied to, too much of our lives? Today’s students have access to hundreds of social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Ifunny, and Pinterest are just a few examples. Often finding it hard to resist the temptation to check it every now and then. “Every now and then” turning into every ten minutes, to forgetting what they were doing when before the got onto their phones, technology has introduced many distractions in a college student’s life.

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.

In our ever changing environment integrating the use of technology into our daily lives has exponentially increased over the last thirty years. The innovative results technology has created leads to a robust amount of valuable opportunities for social expansion found in the areas of commerce, medicine, occupational, and education. As the population continues to integrate the use of technology into their daily lives the expansion in technology use has also resulted in numerous negative exploitations, especially on social networking websites (SNW). Social networking websites are frequently targeted by those who threat to attack SNW registered user’s private lives. A frequent doubt that embarks the user’s thoughts is one that questions SNW’s ability of properly securing stored user information. Society also questions the possibility of SNW’s cultivation of user stored information and whether these websites will broadcast the information to unwanted public, such as advertisers. This is a heated confrontation between SNW users and the websites themselves. The question of whether the information projected on SNW can become a potential threat to society 's privacy can be easily answered, yes. As a SNW user myself I believe that many of SNW’s have the inability of properly securing user stored information. The low security creates a threat to society’s privacy; it also has the capability of creating a potential monetary gain from cultivating and distributing stored information.

In the past people have difficult life because of many things and technology is one of them .As we know, technology is very important in our life for many reasons, it makes life easy, save the time and improve the quality . Day to day we see new technology and suitable for everyone , so no thing stay as it is.If we aske old man or woman will know how they suffered because of having poor of technology. In the future many types of technology will change and comes with new ideas. That is whey every country takes care of the technology. Oman is also go ahead for this and it want to be the best. In this project I will talk about the future of technology in Oman and how it will be effective .