Technology : The Use Of Technology In The World

In the 21st century nothing has been more influential on the human race than technology has. Technology is a part of anything and everything and the thought of no technology would be considered the apocalypse. Two women, Jane McGonigal, a video game designer, and Sherry Turkle, a technology professor at MIT, both have their own perspectives on technology and how it impacts emotions. McGonigal’s main focus is how video games can be used as a model on how we as humans can make this world a better place. Turkle’s studies are focused on how technology such as cell phones, online avatars, and social media make a whole generations personal development different from past generations. McGonigal is extremely optimistic towards the idea of not only video games but technology as a whole being a huge impact on the improvement of earth’s population. Turkle is more skeptical on technology bringing up thought evoking questions regarding whether technology and its effects on us should be considered good or bad. Even with their contrasting topics both of these women are trying to show how the technology of everyday life alter the emotions. Turkle and McGonigal’s ideas are comparative regarding the emotional effect on people using alternate realities being positive and they also agree that technological communication has become a tool for emotional benefit in society, but their technological views differ on how technology will help us mature as a person.

"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).

The technology we use in our everyday lives has created a far too comfortable environment for its users. These days people of all ages use technology. It has reached a point where it is almost normal for a toddler to own a tablet or cell phone and for children to have their own social media accounts. It is also not uncommon to feel secure putting personal information out for businesses and organizations to use or making purchases over the internet without first being sure you are receiving what you payed for. We use technology in such a nonchalant way that we do not even stop and realize how corrupt of an environment has been created through technology.

Similar to the complexities of the Boeing 747 “super jet”, “No single person can comprehend the entire workings” of a cell phone. The cell phone found in the pocket of the majority of citizens of the world today include GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G networks, LTE, high-resolution cameras and millions of downloadable user-made applications to choose from. In fewer than 30 years, the cell phone went from a rare device only attainable by the wealthiest of the population, to a device that a large percentage of the population now owns. Whether on the streets of downtown Toronto, or a small village in poverty-stricken East Africa, it is becoming increasingly rare to find a person who does not own a mobile device.

I. Introduction: What if every cell phone in the world crashed? How would society communicate? How would one know when someone’s birthday is without getting a notification for it? Some people wouldn’t even know when to get up each morning. Thirty years ago, these questions would be easily answered, but it would have taken separate resources to solve each issue. Most tasks nowadays, however, are done by using this single device. The overuse of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite

Technology is used on a daily basis to accomplish specific tasks or interests. Modern technology increases human capabilities and this technology has evolved with years. Technology simplifies life in so many ways and everyone defines technology in their own way. They’re new types of technology on the market, this technology simplifies our daily lives. They’re endless demands as consumers of technology, people use technology to accomplish simple tasks every day. Technology’s used in business, education, communication, healthcare, entertainment and so much more. There’s an unquestionable impact of technology on society. Whether considering the plow, vaccinations, or the internet, technology has had a huge impact on society. While not every advance benefits society, there’s many positive effects of technology. Modern technology makes life more convenient now more than ever. Modern technologies like broadband internet makes it possible to access relevant information at any time anywhere. Today’s technology makes it simple for students to learn from anywhere through online education and mobile education, which improves the education system. It also improves the health system, most hospitals have implemented modern technology in surgical rooms, which may reduce the number of mistakes made by doctors. Modern technology’s more convenient than when it was simpler because, it provides an easy way to access information, improves the education system, and it improves the health system.

Are technological advancements a hindrance or burden on society? It is a long fought conflictual battle for society to say that technology has gone too far. There are many valid points on both sides of the spectrum that could be proven true. In Asimov’s book “I, Robot” he declares many instances that show disapproval from a society of modern technology. Society has the opportunity to look at conflict with technology in a positive or a negative viewpoint. There are three main points that could help make a societal decision that the boundaries of technology are beneficial, harmful, or complacent factors.

The society in which a person is born in is wildly different than the one they live in now. This raises the question if society is improving. Some think it does not improve, it only shifts. “Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not” (Emerson 3). Technology advances so often that it becomes something that people depend on. Which could be the one of the reasons why people have become lazier. Not only that, but the internet exploits people’s private information, and and divides people with unpleasant comments. Technology should be used to help solve problems, but instead it has made people more dependable, lazy, and unpleasant.

Since the dawn of time, humans have had an innate drive to innovate and revolutionize technologies that surround them in day to day life. This drive to innovate has led to technologies that have made it easier to create, manage, and exchange goods and information. Planned technological systems such as the steam powered railroad provided a widely accepted vessel which society could improve on through increased trade efficiency. On the contrary, individuals can take progress and technology too far entirely, eventually affecting people’s land, increasing pollution, and promote unfair labor. Technological systems must have guidelines in order to avoid misuse of the newly developed technologies, society must also accept the technology and all of its proposed benefits and consequences.

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.

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.

With this new glass of Merlot by my side, I sit and wonder at the amazement of technology. Each velvety sip opens me up in my corner a little more just as technology has done so for the world. But now I must go off and ponder further on into an important philosophical question of whether this technology, endless as it has come to be, should be considered as a thing that has brought out the best or the worst in society. How complex a question! Surely I could easily look back fondly and count the many ways that technology and its manifold presence has been nothing but a blessing, not only to facilitating human kind, but also our intrinsic pursuit of society. But now, as easy as that might be, it would be a more healthy venture to play the

Technology has proved itself do the unexpected for millions of people worldwide. Microsoft has used advertisements to advance their technology in various ways. This commercial, that came out during the super bowl, opens with the former NFL player, Steve Gleason using Microsoft, a form of technology to help his fatal illness, ALS. This commercial also stresses how technology is helpful to people in all aspects of life. It shows how technology has the power to unite people by opening up the way to communicate face to face over long distances. Technology can inspire people to do astonishing things, including giving people who don’t have a leg or arm the ability to carry out life’s necessities with a prosthetic limb or even going to the moon

Technology in our society is way to advanced for some people. We fail to realize the complications that could possibly join these new inventions. We don’t see how these products could be ways for others to listen in without warning, and we buy these things accepting the terms and conditions without seeing if it’s actually completely safe. We shouldn’t feel safe however knowing several of our information that we wouldn’t want to be public; could be at any chosen moment. We allow several corporations and governments receive information about us they would/should have no interest in, we embrace and advance our technology and by doing this we sacrifice our privacy everyday.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world has become a smaller place. The time used to travel to far distances has diminished; with the growth of new technologies, traveling and communicating have become simple daily tasks for many people. Through the growth of global communication, people have become closer to others across the globe, and business has gone world wide. One invention that came along with the technological revolution is the cell phone. Cell phones allow us to be reachable anywhere at anytime, letting us communicate even during travel. As time becomes more valuable for people, the importance of accessibility to communication also increases. With cell phones, the communication and