Technology And Technology

The use of technology by people from all ages is inevitable in today’s society. The world depends on technology anywhere from the stock market to nuclear launch codes. Families use technology to enjoy a movie or a game, even to look up recipes for dinner and dessert. Presently, infant children are spending large portions of their days using technology. Today, television shows and games are easily accessed by children through computers and portable age-integrated devices. Introducing technology to a child as early as infancy produces a reliance that has to be maintained for the rest of their lives. The most common and current use of technology in today’s society is social media. Millions of people visit their social media accounts multiple times a day during work hours, school hours, and even while exercising. This constant craving offers a question: Does technology make it hard to concentrate? Some would argue yes it does, because technology has such a vast range of information it is very easy to get distracted when trying to look up something on the computer. A great example of this would be, looking up a song on YouTube, then thirty minutes later finding yourself watching a cat video with no awareness as to how you got there. Technology, with its vast amount of accessibility, has caused humans to lose concentration to an individual’s own detriment, in addition to making them less socially interactive.

There is a problem. At work there are new ideas to pitch. At school there are endless projects and assignments that have to be finished quickly. Everyone wants these ideas to be original, one-of-a-kind, never seen before! Everywhere in life there are stressors that send adrenaline and cortisol hormones to your body that increase heart rate and sugars in the bloodstream. These hormones trigger neurons in your brain to release neurotransmitters that within a fraction of a second have reached all of the interconnected regions of the brain. All of the sensors in the brain receive the impulses, and the Executive Attention Network that brings attention, creative thinking, and concentration into the brain’s activity wraps everything together. There, a creative thought has been born (Underwood 2).

"Happy cure day to me" (31) continuously pops up throughout the entire book. This expression means people celebrate the day they found out they would be able to leave forever, instead of celebrating birth. This concept changes the meaning of holidays and birthdays. Now, people celebrate the ability to live forever in a cruel, unsanitary world. Instead, people should appreciate every moment they get with their friends and family. The desire to constantly be busy doing something surfaces into everyday life. Fidget cubes and spinners are an example because people love to hold and play with these toys all the time to keep themselves "focused" even when their main focus appears somewhere else. With the use and development of technology, everything appears through the click of a button. Tablets, phones, laptops, and computers improve how an individual communicates with their friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers they have not met. Inevitably, this allows us to ignore real-world events in the world around us.

to sustain business cycles like the recession due to unfair wages. Besides, workers in developed countries are left unemployed due to job outsourcing transforming middle-class individuals to become poor.

I was able to take a break from technology for a majority of the 24 hours, however there were some cases that I had to use technology. I tried to go a whole 24 hours without using technologies like my cell phone, television, computer, anything that requires electricity. I decided to do this project with some kinds of justifications, like I could use my car because I needed to use my car throughout the day or I could use my microwave and refrigerator to be able to make myself food. I decided to stay away from my cell phone because that is the single most used technology in my life and I was curious to how much of my time I spent on my phone. Also, my computer is another one of my most used technologies, however I did have to use it once throughout the duration so that I may be able to do my homework. Lastly is my television, I watch a ton of movies and Netflix when I decide to not be on my phone or computer but also can be one of my most used devices.

Many critics have written opinion pieces on technology and how it affects our society. Some say technology will be the ruin of the human race as we know it, others say it is the greatest tool to ever be made, and yet others state technology is changing the basic function of the human mind. Along with the before stated topics, equalities of all kinds are thoroughly presented in these opinion pieces. Whether it is gender, racial, or inequalities based on disabilities; writers have covered many of the bases when it comes to how technology affects discrimination. Eula Biss wrote an essay on telephone poles called Time and Distance Overcome, which also covered racial discrimination. Another work called Is Coding the New Literacy? by Tasneem Raja goes in-depth on the gender gap in the computer coding work field. Elizabeth Marcoux explains how technology is responsible for discrimination in the form of cyberbullying in her work, Cyberbullying and Technology. The one exception to the discrimination that happens is discussed in the work, To Siri With Love by Judith Newman. She shows how technology can be used as an equalizer in some cases in society. While technology has solved many problems; many inequalities pertaining to race, gender, and numerous others are still prevalent in the cyber world.

Currently, technology plays a significant role in life. In today’s society, children are exposed to technology everywhere. Technology is in homes, offices and schools and is full of stimuli and requires paying attention to many different things at once (Dhruvin, 2017). Technology includes smart phones, television, laptops and tablets. Some parents have given their kids iPads or smartphones for entertainment at some point. Early childhood educators are trying to see if the use of technology in schools influences children's cognitive, physical and social skills in early childhood development.

How does technology affect our society? In “Technology use and learning characteristics of students in higher education: Do generational differences exist?” Kwok-Wing Lai and Kian-Sam Hong discuss the impact of technology and how it continues to grow and thrive in our society; however, it constructs a complicated part of young people’s lives that the current generation of students has a different approach of thinking and learning from their predecessors. For example, Lai states “In 2009, 8-18 year olds spend an average of four and a half hours daily utilizing technology digital technologies out of school” (Lai 725). Lai argues technology experiences will definitely affect the approach an educator communicates, socializes, and learns. Since Lai utilizes credible evidence, his argument is credible. Furthermore, he was able to successfully ignite his readers. Technology can produce both a negative and positive impact the way a student learns; however, if technology is excluded in higher education, it can become a negative impact on student success.

Change is a constant theme relating to practically everything in our society. We used to have horses and black and white televisions. These are no comparison to the technology we have with us right now. Even parenting has begun to evolve. For example, parents used to choose marriages for their own children. Things have turned around so much that spanking is even frowned upon within society. However, Change has been lacking in a very important human development. Fundamentally, education has hardly seen a change in the last one-hundred-fifty years. Ironically, the parents of children, along with the educational issues blame current educational issues on the technology. Video games get the most blame out of all the modern technology we possess. For example, Caroline Miller, a writer for Child Mind Institute highlights the typical reactions regarding concentration issues, stating, “the claim has been made by some researchers that the constant stimulation and instant rewards of games raise the bar for kids to pay attention in normal, less stimulating situations where you have to work harder to get rewards.” Consequently, these concerns are a result of the lack of change within our educational system. Ironically, video games are a potential solution to the lack of interest teachers must struggle with throughout the year. Video games are already succeeding as educational tools indirectly and directly. Emphasizing the technology within schools would also fix problems that are not

There are some things that can only be done face to face; things like meeting a new friend, bonding with family or finding love. True connections cannot be made through a screen. When people are walking down the street, riding the subway, or waiting in line, they are all focused on a piece of technology in their hands rather than their surroundings. Someone may never know that the person standing behind them in the checkout line could change their life because they were too busy scrolling through their newsfeed to strike up a conversation. Maybe their soulmate was sitting beside them on the subway, but they never glanced away from their phone. Minds are too clouded to see that, yes, technology does make people more alone, and it diverts them from meeting new people, building social skills, and forming strong relationships.

To begin with how technology plays an important role in people's lives. Technology has become such a great sensation and a piece of satisfying entertainment. Most people on average would end up saying “I couldn’t live without the internet!” in all reality. This is more towards the younger generation considering they were born into having more advanced technology than the older generation. Knowing that technology has advanced tremendously in many countries, including the United States, it has weakened people’s attributes.

In the 2008 article, “What’s the matter with kids today? Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains,” Amy Goldwasser argues that technology has a positive effect on today’s generation. Since parents lived in a generation with little technology they do not feel the need for their teenagers to use it On the other hand the older generation is blaming technology for having a negative effect on teenagers. They believe they are not reading or writing as much as they should. Texting, emailing, IM’ing have helped teenagers reading and writing skills. Goldwasser states that the internet has a positive influence on today’s generation than the older generation gives it credit for. In her article she uses her own opinion to try to persuade the audience without using factual evidence.

Technology, such as cell phones, ruins human interaction. As a teenage user of this expeditious technology, I have concluded that this consumable “must have” item of our time destroys the peaceful tradition of social contact. People today find it hard to talk to others in person. They fidget, avoid eye contact, and on some cases lack the want of any social attention. These accumulating flaws of our human interactions are the doing of our praised technology,  as many have proven through research. Previous generations did not have this problem. Our ostensibly innocent pieces of technology has molded ourselves into people who struggle  to have decent interactions amongst others. Our deceivable devices may seem like they are not doing any harm, but technology is indeed ruining simple human interactions with one another.

With technology giving us better methods of communication, modernized education and immediate answers to our every question, we use it on a daily basis with little comprehension of what is does to us; but is there a price to pay for that? As the Internet progressively becomes our primary source of information and the use of technology continues to increase, it is speculated that our neurological processes are changing. Although smartphones and other related mobile devices are seen as influential and efficient, it is now thought that these devices have a lasting negative impact on our ability to process information, think critically, remember clearly, and mostly, pay attention. With this new digital lifestyle making it difficult to stay focused on one thing at a time, the human attention span has shortened greatly in the last decade (Borreli). In his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr uses anecdotes, personal examples, and scientific studies to make the point that the Internet is affecting our critical thinking skills and ability to process information. In expansion from the argument that Carr makes to prove that the Internet is affecting certain mental abilities, it is important to question if and how technology and the Internet are also negatively impacting our attention spans.

Implementing technology to support the use of e-textbooks will impact the institution. A learning management system will be needed to access the e-textbook (Bossaller & Kammer, 2014). Servers or cloud storage will be needed to store files and content (Sundeen & Sundeen, 2013). The Internet is needed to access the e-textbooks (Bossaller & Kammer, 2014). The bandwidth needs to accommodate the use of the e-textbook without having problems with the network freezing, slow downloads, and printing (Bossaller & Kammer, 2014). Students will need a device to access the e-textbook (Romig, 2017), so more computer labs may be needed.