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Technology And Technology Essay

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For being in an age of rapid technological growth and advancement, it seems the changes that are occurring are shaping our society dramatically without us even noticing. Only when we take a minute to reflect on the differences between now and how previous generations were brought up is when we draw the conclusion that technology has impacted us and shaped our world in such a subtle yet powerful way. Although people of the older generations claim technology is to blame for the growing millennial laziness, technology has brought intelligence levels to an all time high, and introduced new skills that are preparing us for the way the world has adapted to this new standard of society. 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

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