Technology Has Changed The Way Of Life

Technology is defined as machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. Its original use was meant solely for the service of humans, however overtime it has evolved into something much different. What was originally meant to be an assisting piece of machinery has changed almost every aspect of our culture. The way we think, communicate, lie, and even love has been impacted by the use of technology, and all of this is has made for interesting pieces of literature. In pieces such as Her and I, Robot, we see the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence into a more empathetic and humanlike creatures. This gradual change in our views of robots overtime speaks volumes to the evolution of technology. Technology in literature has become a reflection of human beings themselves, mirroring the very qualities of ourselves that make us human. By looking at the personality that technology takes on in literature, we can greater understand the aspects of ourselves that truly make us human.

Technology is taking over the lives of people all around the world. Have you ever recognized how isolated people have become with the new smart phones or how hard it is to get some sleep at night? Have you ever noticed how more and more people have become depression and hearing lose has increased over the years as new headphones are invented? The way technology has been include in the lives of people all over the world like finding cures and making surgery less pain full. The advancements in technology has both helped and harmed people. Technology is taking over human lives, affecting their health. Technology has badly impacted human health by causing depression, negatively impacting relationships, creating poor sleeping habits, growing rates in obesity, and more prone to infections .

Two girls sit in silence together, one on her laptop the other on her phone. They sit across the table from one another. They obviously know one another, but say nothing as they eat and work. A college aged boy talks loudly on the phone in the dining hall, sitting by himself. He is gesticulating wildly to his conversational partner, despite the other person being an undeterminable distance from him from the point of view of the observer. In the middle of a conversation with his friend at dinner, a boy pulls out his cell phone and checks something. The friends stops talking and checks his phone as well. Conversation ceases.

Today a lot of people use technology such as computers, smartphones, and tablets to get information, to buy something, and to communicate with family and friends. Since technology has been developed, people’s lives have also been changed. One of the examples is that many companies have started to sell their products through the Internet and customers look for goods and buy them on the Internet. Before technology was developed, people had to go to stores to purchase products. However, we can look for and purchase products whenever and wherever we want now. Shopping has become more convenient. I also often use technology to buy products, especially flight tickets. Since I came to the United States, whenever I go traveling or go back to Japan during breaks, I used an online travel agency, Expedia, to purchase my flight tickets. This is because it is very convenient. I can search and reserve my flight quickly. Usually, I do not have any problem with Expedia, but I had trouble with it because of technology during this spring break. I think that if humans operated the service, the problem did not happen.

The IT (Information Technology) rules the current generation that we are living in. The IT has brought drastic change in every single persons life and also to their way of living. It has brought changes in people way of working. Almost everything has been computerized in the world from small basic things to larger tasks everything has been ruled by the IT. From cooking to building large buildings everything can be done by a single computer with a very less human effort. IT has ruled the world. The technologies that are coming out in the market every single day has made our life easier and less complicated. But its not that coming into a IT business or building a software or a technology will have an automatic impact in the market

Have you ever used technology – surfing the internet, playing a videogame, or scrolling through social media – as a way to escape reality for a little bit? Have you been guilty of ‘binge watching” a Netflix series, or two...or three in one weekend because you did not want to deal with your parents, family or friends for a while? At what point does technology become an addiction, especially for teenagers of today who will be the first generation who knows nothing different than life with technology? Being seventeen, I am apart of the generation labeled as “digital natives,” this means me and many other teens have been born into the technological world, and do not know a world without technology. We are allowing this technological world to consume who we are and what we do with our lives. Especially for the generation of teens today, technology will continue to be difficult to live without; but it also will become something very difficult to live with if we rely on it too much or feel like we can not live without it.

When a college student was asked if they knew what an overhead was, the response had been, “Yes of course! It’s a projector like box with a light and mirror, which sits in the front of the classroom. It displays pictures from slides, and the teacher has clear sheets that we can write on using vis-a-vis marker.” Then when a student in elementary school was asked if they knew what an overhead was, their response were entirely different. None of them knew what it was, as their responses had been, “A coloring table”, “When you wear a mask”, and “A wood that covers things.” As one can see, the newer generations didn 't have the slightest idea of what an overhead is, while older students have grown up with the use of one. This is due to how technology has been advancing throughout the years and it will continue to change as time goes on.

There is an expression saying “man born not of his own time.” The basics of the quotes meaning is a persons mannerisms, thoughts, ideas, and dreams are based out of a different time frame then the individual is presently living in. Technology a defining feature to our time line in human evolution. Each major technological advancements introduces new opportunities, as well as obstacles, that aide mankind in advancing to the next step in their evolutionary chain. The 21st centuries latest technology is the 3D printer, a device capable of re-defining our lives to be more convenient by printing all of our needs. It is claimed 3D printing will be an absolute positive technology to benefit mankind, but we will soon encounter situations where uncontrolled, illegal substances will be produced because anyone can attain a printer and its materials, the simplicity of learning the machine makes it convenient for everyone, and there are no restrictions on content being printed.

Could you imagine life without your cell phone? I know I couldn’t. My daily routine is controlled by my cell phone; from the alarm clock on my phone that wakes me up to the last Instagram post I check before I close my eyes. I couldn’t fathom the thought of not having my phone (not a phone but, my phone!) with me every second of the day. My life would probably shatter in to pieces. Without a phone I don’t think my family, friends, or I would be able to function everyday properly.

If you would have told an artist back in the 1970’s that in the future there was going to be music exclusively made in a computer, with no use of actual instruments; that musicians would have portals such as iTunes, Pandora, Spotify or Soundcloud where the audience could listen to their music as they pleased on the go in their mobile phones or even their watches, they probably would have called you crazy. However, this is the reality we live in nowadays. Almost sixty years after that time and, as you walk around a campus, a mall, a park, or anywhere else with large flow of people, you will notice people being in contact with music through several ways, most ways that you observe were not even thought to be possible a century ago.

Technology has become a part of our lives and culture, because of it convenience and easy to use factor that it able to make many things in our lives a little bit easier. Many services that derive from technologies that includes paying our bills and/or taxes, way to interact with people from many social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.. and finally how we able to gain our day to day information through media. Technology can also help us in many ways, such as acquiring information from the internet or book for education purposes, or watching clips from the movie that you enjoy on a train. But, there are also many aspects of technology that can be used against innocent people with things such as copyright laws that can restrict a person access to the information. In many instances, people that control these type rights prevents access to use the information are influential corporate institute, who act as a gatekeeper on the public trying to access information or restricting movement from the public’s point of view due to the ownership’s right of the content of information. The problem of public’s access and the restriction of information is not something that happens in our lifetime. But in fact, the problem with copyright and the issue of access occurs throughout many time in history. Two of the prime example that was able to capture these issues are Siva Vaidhyanathan’s book “Copyrights And Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens

Turkle senses a standstill, pleading that we still have time to take back our lives, to draw limitations on social media, to refine technology in a way that it truly benefits us and doesn’t serve selfishly motivated actions. A better way of seeing this is learning how to turn off the cyborg in us, and how to make technology a useful and effective attachment. Technology being so deeply ingrained, we have all allowed our phones to become an extension of who we are. Students in Turkle’s research sleep with their phones, and say they know when it is ringing, like phantom limb syndrome. Our smartphones are always with us, and our profiles are always on our minds. We interact with multiple messaging services via brief conversations of abbreviations and image sharing. We speak through images, abandoning words and written language. “Memes” inducing a reaction in under a minute, due to our ability to connect hundreds of cultural contexts back to a single image. No one has spoken more than several words, sometimes none, and we are in an uproar of ideas and emotions with a glance at a single image in a “meme”. We begin to think like our machines.

Technology is often considered the key to nations’ economic growth due to the many improvements brought to society. Taking a look back in history, technology has made good changes in human life, due to the automatization and less effort spent to produce in mass. In recent years, the dependence resulting from the usage of small and powerful devices by young people to correlate with others is causing side effects associated with health disorders. Researchers are working to find the best application of technology in human life, without compromising the development of society and leverage the usage of emerging devices and services. The majority of society is more dependent on the evolving technology than they think, causing several issues to human life such as psychological effects, psychological issues, and sociological complications. What can people do in order to prevent the symptoms of emerging disorders?

When you had to wait days and weeks for that letter to arrive and you needed get that information from that person, it was frustrating. Today communication has become easier with the use of technology. I was born in a generation of technology that has made it easier for me to talk to anyone that is anywhere. It used to be only phone calls and letters the ways to communicate with someone who wasn’t near you, but not today. The development of technology has allowed us to communicate with anyone around the world in just matters of seconds. Whenever I want to know if anyone from my family is doing alright or I need to get an information from my job I just need to pick up my phone and send a message or open my laptop and maybe video chat with that person.

In today’s society, technology has increasingly become more present in our lives. Grow-ing up, what I remember most was whenever I was a home, the one place anybody could be sure to find me was in my bedroom, sitting behind my Sony laptop doing random things. For many people, including myself, who grew up around computers and technology, it is really hard to imagine living in a world without them by our sides since we are so used to having them around. So where did computers and laptop even come from?