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The Importance Of Technology On Technology

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Stop where you are. Look around. No matter where you are there’s some type of digital technology around. Either it’s a phone, a computer, or even a television, we are surrounded by modern day digital technology. Everyday, even among our daily routines, we are checking our phones, getting distracted by the TV, or browsing the web when we get bored. It seems like the more technology is getting advanced, the more we are getting dependent on technology. And with new advances, come new problems.
In the past, consequences for misbehaving children used to be that kids had to stay inside and weren’t allowed to play outside, but now a days it seems like the consequences are reversed. Instead of staying inside, kids are getting their technology privileges taken away and are forced to play outside. When did technology get so advanced and distracting that not only kids, but human beings in general, became dependent on it. Technology has influenced and changed us in ways many don’t realize or understand.
Problems that are in fact impacting our health. “Perhaps the most dramatic impact is the reduction in the amount of sleep,” the UCLA Chancellor Gene Block stated at a Zócalo/UCLA event in downtown Los Angeles. Block, a biobehavioral scientist, also stated that there are tangible benefits when people can monitor their own vital signs with such ease and take more responsibility for their own health care, but an excessive amount of screen time, especially at night, is taking a toll. Many

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