Technology And Technology : The Use Of Technology

Technology is as much of a distraction as it is an asset. It took me 30 minutes to begin this essay because my phone is right next to me, and I got a text. A single message turned into a full conversation along with an update on multiple social media apps. I was annoyed with my phone because it distracted me from my essay, but how could I stay mad at something so important to me? Without my phone I doubt I could be a functioning adult. I couldn’t have bought my Starbucks this morning, I used the mobile app, and I couldn’t have boarded my plane, my boarding pass was sent to my email, and I couldn’t have called an Uber to get back to school.

"The Kaiser Family Foundation last year found that school-age kids spend an average of 7 1/2 hours a day in front of a television, a smartphone, or another digital device"(Rosen).

“What is technology?” Have you ever marveled about the prominence of technology in our day-to-day lives? If you ever have, you have undoubtedly appreciated its complexity and its capability to make everyday responsibilities easier for yourself. For example, you probably admire how cellphones have completely eradicated the old-fashioned method of communicating, by sending mail to friends and relatives. Or how the invention of laptops and computers have brought up a new, more efficient method to stay in touch with the world, though the internet, rather than the previous method of newspapers. However, all these basic ideas of the importance of technology are ideas of what technology has done for you, and can be completely different for others. Have you ever wondered what technology has done for others, perhaps people not in the same circumstances as you, perhaps of a different age, religion, race, gender, or socio-economic status than you? Maybe you haven’t, but Microsoft, a leading technological superpower, certainly have wondered about this as seen in their “Empowering” ad.

The effect of the creation of the internet on individuals is hard to quantify. While it has led to many positive changes for society, many would argue it has only complicated our lives, but the increased access to learning and cultural resources and information is difficult to ignore as a source of self-improvement. In the essay “Project Classroom Makeover” Cathy Davidson discusses how students born in the information age interact differently with learning because of their experiences on the internet. Thomas Lethem also posits that changes in our environment, like the creation of the internet, change the art that we create in his essay “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism.” Even with these great resources, human nature does not always tend towards the self-improvement made possible by the internet and humans often self-organize to avoid it. In the essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen” Steven Johnson discusses how humans tend to group themselves up in ways that keep different types of people separate and aim to minimize personal growth and improvement. Fighting against this human tendency towards complacency, the internet has created incredible opportunity for individuals to improve themselves by learning and expanding their minds through access to global culture, free information, and instant social interaction without borders. Despite this, many people have ended up in internet communities where they do not see global culture, are given false information, and have interactions with only a very ideologically limited set of people. This can lead people to become more misinformed and hostile to ideas other than their own, so to fully take the opportunity granted by the internet, individuals must push themselves to not settle into any such narrowly defined community and to use the resources given to them. To understand why this self-motivation is so important, it is important to first understand how much opportunity the internet and technology provide.

Have you ever been in a room with a bunch of people and when you look around you notice everyone is on their phones? It seems that today technology has become something that we need, something that we cannot live without. Everywhere you go you see people on phones, laptops, ipods, tablets etc. Manufacturers are working hard to make sure technology is constantly adapting and progressing. Manufacturers compete to make the latest devices, and customers demand the newest and best version. In the news, on TV, or in magazines you can see that technology is reaching new levels each and every day. On a daily basis, companies are advertising new and upcoming technology whether it is a new update, a new app or even a newer device. I feel that in this day and age, technology is causing an addiction that prevents people from being physically social. Those affected by the addiction are zoned into that bright screen, and are not focussed on family, friends or even their job.

"Get out your phone," "grab a laptop," "we are going to the computer lab" are common phrases heard in an average classroom, whether it be in elementary, middle, or high school. More and more teachers are implementing technology in the classroom as a way to increase students' interest in what is being taught, but many teachers fail to recognize the problems that come with the use of too much technology. While technology may be an innovative resource for the classroom, students' exposure to technology should be regulated because overuse of technology negatively affects the brain and eyes, and impacts basic life skills. Technology in moderation can be beneficial, but an excessive amount creates more problems than it solves.

Today technologies play a big and important role in a life of our generation. Its rapid development has significantly improved people's living standards. But at the same time, the influence of automation on the work market made many people worry if it may leave humans unemployed. The relationship between employment situation and automation is a very complex question. "AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs" is a report presented by Pew Research center in 2014 on the topic of the impact of automation on a modern labor market. A number of experts answered a question whether AI and robotic devices will have displaced more jobs than they have created in the next decade. As a result, opinions were divided into two almost equal halves; one-half of the interviewees believe that the disruptive influence of machines will cause mass unemployment and wealth disparity whereas another group sees technology more as a creator of jobs than a destroyer. But at the same time, both groups converge on certain issues, such as educational institutions are failing to provide the sufficient knowledge for the future job market and the changes the work as the concept, so people will have more leisure time.People may agree or disagree to what extent automation will capture the workplace, but I think that there definitely will be a change.

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

When looking back on human history, it becomes clear that technological advancements will inevitably lead to changes in some aspects of society. Although some inventions can cause more harm than good and should thus not be used, society should embrace the inventions with benefits that will significantly outweigh any potential disadvantages. One specific aspect of society that has been influenced by technological innovations has been our communication via writing. From marks on clay tablets to ink on paper to pixels on screens, writing has had to continually adapt to new mediums throughout its five-millennia-old history due to inventions such as the quill and ink, the printing press, and computers. Due to the decline of newspapers, some people believe that society may be at risk of losing the written word. However, this is not the case at all; by providing a new instrument for writing, the age of electronic communication will extend the lifespan of writing. The reason why writing was created in 3200 BC was due to humanity’s necessity to record information and communicate (Mark). Humanity’s need for writing can easily be seen by the fact that multiple writing systems were independently developed in three different places – cuneiform script was developed in 3200 BC in Mesopotamia, oracle bone script in 1200 BC in China, and multiple writing systems in 300 BC in Mesoamerica. Since its creation five millennia ago, writing has persistently adapted to become the form that most

Society today trusts technology for far too many things that are not necessary. Instead of human face to face interactions and communication that have been used since the start of human existence it has become strictly email and networking based communication. There is no human contact that reinsures an individual that they have the support and love that accompanies friendship. Without that human contact that should come with friendship it is unsure to which the intent of the context is supposed to be interoperated. The use of technology in regards to friendship is not all harmful there are some positives, but it continuously blurs the lines of what friendship is or is not thus resulting in devastation. Philia as understood by the Greeks ceases to exist, it is no longer represented by emotions but rather emoticons, and technology transforms its understandings from physical to platonic. “The idea of friendship in ancient times could not have been more different. Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Virgil’s Nisus and Euryalus: Far from being ordinary and universal, friendship, for the ancients, was rare, previous, and hard-won” (Deresiewicz 2009, 2). True friendship involves depth and love to which one cannot receive through a computer screen but its convenience allows for immediate and accessible communication.

In today’s society, people are afraid to take on new opportunities. People tend to mistake failure for a type of setback or humiliation. In reality, failures can lead to great success, it all depends on how you bounce back from your mistakes and learn from them. I learned this lesson when I stumbled upon what would now become my passion, computers.

Kids are stuck in a world where technology doesn't exist,everyone is nice to one another, and their English papers don’t have to be turned in by 11:59 Sunday night to turnitin.com. What happens when they get their first phone as a freshman in highschool, and they begin getting bullied and seeing harmful ads online? Are they going to have any idea how to avoid harmful situations like this ? The answer is no, not if they aren't exposed to it at a young age and learn how to tell trusted adults about what they are experiencing, and how to use their phones correctly as a learning tool. Learning how to use technology is like throwing a ball; once you learn how to throw a baseball, you can throw any other ball, like a football, just as well. If kids could learn to use an Iphone at a young age and navigate the internet, then when they encounter the growing world of technology in the school setting or get bullied by mean kids, it will come as a second nature to them as to what to do.

Technology helps teenagers and adults ignore the stress of work, homework, and money. Technology also supports our life choices. Everyday people experiment with how they can change himself, or the world around them to enable “comfort.” The scientist that created the cure demonstrates this throughout his experimentation. “It wasn’t the most noble of genetic experiments...Just because I benefited from sloppy handiwork doesn’t mean the rest of us will. Because we

Going back a few decades there was no emails, internet, mobile marketing, or smartphones. Now with the rise of technology communications are instantaneous. Most of the communication in the business field from a producer to the consumer has been much easier with the help of technology. Amounts of information move through email and the internet which is all powered in the hands of owners of smartphones and employees sending the information. A huge impact that technology has had over the years has been improving operations at companies of different sizes and helped turn small local businesses into global businesses today. In today’s society it is very hard to walk down the street or walk into a store and not see a person with a smartphone either in their hand or close by them. Most people are glued to their phone whether it’s being directly on it, checking it every few minutes, or having it close by. Cell phones have become a necessity for businesses, because it is a key of communication. It makes it easier to stay in touch with clientele, and is also a huge marketing tool as well. Email, text messaging, and social medias are other advances in communication through technology that keep small business as well as global businesses, stay connected to their customer bases and improve internal communication within the company.

In modern era, almost every single person in the world has a cellular device that can conveniently sit in a pocket and give someone the ability to speak to anyone they know across the globe. Along with that, many of those devices have access to internet – allowing access to an infinite amount of information to gather with just a tap of a screen. Many different tasks can now be conducted or organized just by using a 5-inch phone in the palm of your hand. Worldwide instant communication is not the only amazing feat people have obtained: planes carry people and cargo hundreds of miles per hour around the world, electricity and water are directly installed into most homes, and people can casually travel many miles a day using one of thousands of different kinds of vehicles. As the world continues to grow, technology further expands to achieve things that many people wouldn’t have believed possible. A century ago, most people wouldn’t be able to imagine the world we live in today.