The Importance Of Technology

Every civilization has its forms of the anti-hero within its lore and mythology. However, in today’s society that anti-hero is something that looks each of us in the face every morning when we wake up. It has penetrated almost every aspect of our lives. That anti-hero is technology. I’m calling technology an anti-hero because of the effects that it has on society and the methods it uses are sometime unorthodox. Technology has increased human knowledge and skills throughout the years, however, over that same time it took away older knowledge and skills fundamental to life. In the first section I’m going to address the positive effect of technology has on our knowledge and skills. In the second, I will focus on the negative ways technology affects knowledge and skills and how to mitigate it.

Today’s society is more affected by technology than it ever has been and it is changing every second of every day. Advancements in technology have been changing our culture and society for hundreds of years; from hunters and gatherers to information overload to a future of the most advanced technologies we could imagine. These fast advancements in technology quickly change our society. This statement was greatly expanded upon by three people: Gerhard Lenski, Leslie White, and Alvin Toffler

New technology has improved and diminished the world on a global scale. The development of biased inventions has caused many controversial opinions over the course of the century. Numerous ideas and readings influence the making of these products. Non-lethal weapons can have a harmful or beneficial impact on society's mental and physical health much like the technology in ¨The Veldt¨.

Technological advancements have effected humans in many different ways from texting to the creation of monsters. Even though some technological advancements may at first seem to positively impact society, once they progress to interfering with the greater good of human beings the progress becomes negative.

A smart, scholarly and skillful author named Aldous Huxley once said “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards”. The advancement, improvement and the wrong use of technology has affected the world in a really negative way. When technology first started to improve and become more advanced was during the WW1 and WW2, which caused the most destructive wars in human history. For example the wrong use of technology led the Americans to produce one of the most destructive bombs that killed about more than 80,000 innocent people in Japan, Nagasaki. Another perfect example could be the production of nuclear weapons and missiles in Russia and Iran, which are made to eventually be used in another

Technology, despite its glorious front, has great faults such as distorting personal connections, distracting people from reality, and creating a despotic government.

Throughout the course of history, humans have advanced at an exponential rate leading up to this day. While these advances are often able to help the world and the people around us, it also has the potential to cause conflict and expose the worst characteristics of mankind. The thought that “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” (R. Buckminster Fuller) can seem a bit foolish, but is subtly perpetrating our everyday lives as we succumb to so many unintentional, yet terrible features of just being human. Our addiction and love of the newest and fastest pieces of combined human knowledge is something anyone in this day and age can understand, yet is something that few try to resist. Only an astonishingly

In the world we have seen many technological advances throughout time. We have seen telegraph lines, hot air balloons, airplanes, computers, and cellphones. Through technology we have been able to use it to our advantage. Whether it be to write a paper or defend ourselves against our enemy. Such is the case of the Franco-Prussian War. The technology they used/ didn’t use helped make or break their countries. Technological advances help us greatly in times of need. It is more beneficial for us to be ahead in technology than it is to not use it at all.

Finally, technology can be used as a great tool for many things, but the over-reliance of technology can be deadly to society. Examples, such as Vashti, can truly show the negative effect technology will have on humans who rely too heavily on technology. Such reliance could lead to the demise of civilization. The modern world may be heading to a future like The Machine Stops if humans do not wake up and see how technology is taking

The rapid advancement and heavy reliance on modern technologies today is harmful to the human race because it undermines the concept of human individualism, denies the necessary qualities for deep introspection, and amplify the consequences of human error.

After every battle of every war, troops are getting stronger, faster, and more accurate. Generals are getting smarter and creating more tactics and coming up with more battle strategies, but during all of this, the most drastic change is in the technology. Things are now becoming more computerized every day and it is very noticeable. Nowadays, everywhere you look no matter where at, a person with a smartphone, tablet, or computer will be seen no matter where the location. Technology is making us lazy and is taking jobs away from many people, but at the same time it is improving many things and making them faster and more efficient then a human could. Technology is not only

Technology has made great advances on a global scale, especially within the last half century. Works of fiction and informational texts have addressed the numerous uses of modern innovation. These technological advances have the potential to make one’s personal life better, but could be detrimental to the world as a whole.

At the same time, technological change also has its darker side. Advances in military technology have enabled modern nation states to cause human destruction on a preeedented scale; modern technology has contributed to various kinds of air and water pollution; and advances in industrial technology have sometimes resulted in widespread unemployment in particular occupations and communities. Despite the many benefits that society has reaped from technological change, no one would regard it as unalloyed blessing (For example see national commission in Technology, Automation, and Economic progress (1966)

Some say that technology is the evil that will overcome humanity, others say it is something that will lead us to a new way of thinking about the world. In the book Remix by Catherine Latterell, she writes three assumptions about technology: Technologies are machines, technologies bring progress or peril, and technology is neutral. These assumptions are what some people make about the technology. In Latterell’s book there was an article by Langdon Winner who wrote “Technology Somnambulism” which was about how in the modern world we are being controlled by technology, we change the way we live because of technology. Now given the assumptions that Latterell gives, technology can really be seen as something that is good for the world because it can teach us how to be a better socializer, speeds up the process of doing things, and allows a new kind of learning tool for future generations.

“Technology is not just a tool. It can give learners a voice that they may not have had before." stated by George Couros. Technology changes our everyday lives. It is all around us, we benefit from it. It gives inspirations to younger generations to create new ones to benefit our society and to make it better. It is now a big part of our society and our foreseeable future. Technology have made our countries safer and our lives easier. As early as 1600 to present day. Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, and Nikola Tesla have proved and invented many creations that without, humanity would be lost. Sir Isaac Newton who was a scientist, physicists, and an english mathematician. He invented invented the reflecting telescope. This greatly improved the capacity of telescopes and reduced optical distortion. This helps with optometrists and other scientists of all sorts to gain knowledge better with the help of Sir Isaac Newton’s invention. Charles Babbage, whose an english mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer. He invented a programmable computer, which is now used worldwide present day. Nikolas Tesla, an American Physicist who invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla coil, the induction motor, 3-phase electricity and AC electricity that is use or installed everywhere today. Technology wires our world in a great way, it helps build a better connection to each other, advancement of technology gives inspirations to younger generations, and it benefits and helps