What Makes Us Extinction?

From over ten thousand years ago to what is now the Information Age, technology has grown significantly and affected not just one individual, but the whole world. The creations of technology have rapidly evolved to where humans depend on technology. They use it for their daily needs and this evidence shows these creations are a stepping-stone for future endeavours. The innovations that several people have created revolutionised the world in a major way from a light bulb and crossbows to an airplane and satellites. However, where they are positive results lie potential negative consequences and it becomes conspicuous every day. As humans become more dependent on technology over the years, society becomes interdependent. This indicates that

These days, technology seems to be almost everywhere we go. With advancements to cell phones, computers, video games, cars, and our iPods, our lives have become much easier than ever before. Technology is made because the society always wants to find more efficient methods of doing certain tasks. Without technology, mankind would not have discovered things that the majority of us now know, such as the world, animals, science, and the like. However, the society doesn’t gain much benefit, besides their school and work duties. Technology has become a necessity for us as a whole, although it definitely changes our mental habits. Due to advancements in technology, the United States is becoming more dependent on it, which is causing the

Mom turns on the television and sets the table, dad comes home from work, checks his personal digital assistant for an email he’s been waiting on, while his daughter sits at the table finishing up a “thumb lashing” on her cell phone that she is giving to her “BFF” because she just failed her history test. This scenario has become the norm in homes across America today. It’s the digital age, technology is booming at such a rapid pace we cannot even wear out our devices before the newer up-to-date models arrive. Technology has negative effects on society, because it is causing our critical thinking and social interaction skills to decline, it is disrupting the American family unit, and it has caused us to become a distracted society that is

Extinction: A Radical History is a book published by writer, professor and activist Ashley Dawson. It was published on the 22nd of April 2016. Dawson talks about multiple broad subjects in his book like how Capitalism is the main source of mass extinction. By doing so, he takes into account the lengthy history of the Homo Sapiens species, their activities and their discoveries and how us, humans, have affected today’s biodiversity, and probably the future of our planet Earth. He also offers solutions but are they realistically possible? Today, we no longer face natural risks like asteroids and comets. As Dawson states we now face anthropogenic risks like climate change and biodiversity loss which leads to a change in the earth’s ecosystem.

Technology advances very rapidly can cause human laziness nature so that humanstoo reliant against technology they create, so it will change all life is happening on planet Earth they inhabit in the past, and in the struggle that follow with a sense oflove can drown out all kinds of problems and obstacles in the face. In addition to helping technology can also destroy the ecosystems that exist on Earth as it is in the movie Wall-E. So we have to use technology wisely, without damaging the structure of ecosystems that exist on

In the course of Earth’s history, there have been five major extinction events: the Ordovician-Silurian, Late Devonian, Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic, and Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction events. Now, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, we are entering another one that is caused by a single species: ours. Human beings have decimated the rainforest, hunted animals like the great auk to extinction, pumped billions of tons of pollution into our atmosphere and oceans, and almost completely reassembled the biosphere. Even more frighteningly, these facts come from 2014, and in the four years since The Sixth Extinction’s initial release, we haven’t slowed down a bit. Kolbert closes her book with a call to action,

Every day the world is changing and things are done differently. Technology has also affected the way students are taught and in which they learn. It has changed the classroom. Technology saves us time and allows us to access material in only minutes. “The Internet and online subscription databases, even as a supplement to the printed works in the library, allow students to see, and force them to consider or reject, points of view that they might never have encountered in decades past” (Gow 4).With all the time technology produces, it also has downsides and it also may have created a less intelligent society.

Technology is a product which is born out of our inherent curiosity as a species. As humans, we stand constantly surrounded by these great pillars of discovery for which we alone are responsible. Consequently, we are also in constant danger that that which we have discovered may also topple upon us being responsible for our own downfall. Just like in the natural world, where Darwin's law of survival of the fittest reigns supreme, so too is it with our intellectual discoveries, which are quite possibly our crowning achievements. As humanity moves forward into the 21st century at a blistering pace it is making advancements and thereby decisions of a scope to which it does not truly understand. Moreover, as the scale of what is thought to be possible

Technology and humans have been coexisting since relatively short time; however, their contact sparked constant discussions, theories, and philosophical thoughts as a major social issue. Will it ruin us or will we ruin ourselves due to its influence? These two questions and topics appear frequently, assuming that technology will undoubtedly cause some potential harm.

In today’s society, we have become dependent on our technological enhancements. So much so that many people would perish if at the loss of technology. We need it to survive, we need it to function normally in our society, and we need it to distinguish ourselves as individuals. Due to our increasing amount of enhancements in our lives, we as a species have removed ourselves from the food chain, and suffer none of the dangers we previously fell victim to many years ago. From medical devices that correct natural birth defects, to transportation that moves us farther and faster than ever before. Our society has enhanced, and yet hindered our species from evolving.

While volcanic eruptions, polar shifts, meteor impacts, and other natural events are the causes of the “Big Five,” recent evidence has revealed that a sixth mass extinction is presently transpiring, caused by quasi-natural causes: a hairless species in the Hominidae family known as Homo sapiens. Since the Industrial Revolution, a plethora of biota have met an untimely demise due to overfishing, increased carbon emissions, and decayed oceanic pH levels; while extinction rates soar above the background norm, scientists seek for a way to solve the deadly problem with technology, a go-to scapegoat for skeptics, in order to save not only the environment, but humanity as

Albert Einstein once said “ It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity ”. Nowadays we engage with technology without even noticing, from the cell phones in our pockets, to the microwaves in our kitchen. Technology is great don't get me wrong, but there's certain things that have gone to the extreme.

Since the first time an image was transported to a laptop screen or a handheld device was used to communicate to people in other countries, the world has been a system of calls, emails, texts, and networks that are all categorized under the term technology. We started off with technology that helped us forage for food or manage our livestock. However, tech today is a basis of telecommunications and the use of different mechanical mechanisms that are seemingly robotic. How far we have come from the beginning of the first civilizations to what we are able to do now illustrates the impact of the industrial revolution and, some may say, tech revolution. We are still booming and at every corner that is turned new advancements are introduced into society that was not thought about before. It seems that we should be all “tech” savvy and a life without technology would be a little unnerving to say the least. Others say that this dependence makes “robots” or us less human. Throughout the research conducted on technology, there were news articles assumingly concluding that we are "humans merging with technology and turning into robots" and another similarly arguing that we need to “become cyborgs or risk humans being turned into robots.” These may not be scholarly articles but are interesting to see and notice the perspective that people believe to be true. The extremely absurd notion that we are so heavily dependent on technology that we will turn into robots may actually be true.

The evolution of technology has changed society in both positive and negative ways. People all over the world use and benefit from modern technology. Technology has simplified the access to many tools people need in education, medicine, communication, transportation, etc. However, using it too often has its drawbacks as well. In most cases, the time of finishing projects is cut by more than half with the help of technology. Many people do not realize that technology has its negative affects society as well, and its rapid advances has changed life for worse in a number of different ways.

The predominance of technology has significantly influenced our society. Technology is being used all over the place, anywhere and is instant. When we say technology, it can mean a lot of things. But according to the New Zealand Ministry of Education, “technology is the use of practical and intellectual resources to develop products and systems (technological outcomes) that expand human possibilities by addressing needs and realising opportunities.” Technology is currently more complex and has developed into distinctive sorts. Our general public has turned into an "On the GO Society". We see technology as something that is simpler to depend on as it can be accessed effortlessly. Being this huge, technology has turned into an effective tool in providing us data to broaden our insights; affecting our conduct, mentality and feeling; and changing the way we think and perceive things. For some it can likewise be a source of profit however for most it has turned into a source of entertainment and this does not exclude the children of today. Enter, the birth of technology. Each new data conveyed to us in a glimmer. Our children can simply be lethargically sitting in the chair or cuddling in bed, playing educational games in their most recent gadget, and that would be viewed as "learning". It has consequences for kids. What they watch influence their perspectives. Like never before, we are raising a more youthful era reliant on the constantly changing and enhancing