The Importance Of Technology

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

Many years ago, it was unlikely to think that the world would move around the technology as it is nowadays. Its improvement is due to the necessity that folks have on their daily basis, and their willingness to keep track of the advancement in today’s and incoming day, which will improve even greatly the humanity when people refer to technology. That is why in the essay, “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs” by Kevin Kelly, he emphasizes that we must learn to live in harmony with robots’ technology so that we can increase our performance in future’s duties. Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains how the technology affects our cognitive skill. “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” by Clive Thompson, states that working alongside technologies make us significantly better as we get benefits from them. Soon technologies are going to take over us, but at least, we as a society that usually performs our day-to-day using tools should know what to do and what benefits can we take from them.

Mankind’s capability to advance as a species can be attributed to one major practice, and that is the constant increase in use and development of technology that enhances us or our surroundings. Ever since the era of cavemen we have been using technology to help make our lives easier or, at least, more enjoyable. Through these accomplishments, humans have transformed from being just another animal merely existing to a conscious entity that is always striving to achieve more on an individual or collective setting. Without technology the fundamental necessities of a functioning society such as; communication, education, employment, and health care would be unavailable, leaving us vulnerable to the harsh realities of a world that doesn’t take pity on the unknowing.

There comes a time where schools did not have the luxury to access computers and other electronic devices. Due to the advancements in technology, society today have become more dependent on them such that those who use them in their everyday lives have become increasingly complacent. In this case, students are relying too much on the internet to do their schoolwork. Anything can be found in the internet, causing students to easily find the answer to their homework problem as opposed to figuring it out themselves. Students in today’s society have become too lax and complacent when it comes to the utilization of external resources such that it enables them to not think for themselves and rather obtain their answers instead of learning how to get to the answer. The heavy reliance on technology poses a threat to developing minds of the millennials, disabling them from thinking for themselves.

Einstein once said, “ I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Most smart people agree with this quote because technology has surpassed humans and now the world is actually full of idiots! The old days had better, smarter people who have contributed a lot to humankind being where it is today. Think about it, people back then didn’t try to destroy the planet they lived on, but somehow the past 2 generations figured out how to do it in 50 years. There are people who would disagree with this completely and say things like, we are way better than them or if they were so smart, how come they didn’t invent the iPhone before us. Many agree that this is not the smartest generation, but they believe that the generations before us like the Egyptians who pretty much invented geometry, the Indus River Valley people who had advanced plumbing systems and urban plumbing, and the Mesopotamians who are famous for their hanging gardens and making the first written language have contributed more than we have to mankind.

Technology these days can be as confusing as math! Daily life has changed in many ways over the past hundred years because of advancements in technology. First, the way of how society reads in the modern day has been reinvented from how people used to read a hundred years ago. Second enjoying games with friends is nothing like it used to be when technology was not present. Last, current communication is tremendously more advance than it was in the past when smartphones were not a “thing.” As can be seen, there is no denying that daily life has evolved because of newer technology.

There has been a tremendous amount of technological advancements in recent decades, causing society to become heavily reliant on technology. These days, almost everyone has access to phones, computers, and the internet. These devices are helpful in many ways, but they have also unfortunately become a sort of extension to the human body. Sure, they allow people to quickly communicate with those far away from them, but what about relationships with the ones in the so-called real world? In “Can You Hear Me Now?” M.I.T. professor and award-winning author Sherry Turkle discusses how technology is damaging peoples' relationships, as well as their ability to communicate. By using technology to hide behind screens, give up privacy for validation, and divide attention between multiple people, relationships and communication skills are, in fact, harmed by the extensive use of technology.

Much like the rest of the developed world, technology has become a colossal part of my day to day life. From the second my cell phone’s alarm function wakes me up in the morning, to the calculator I use in class, to the show I’m currently watching on netflix when I’m falling asleep. Technology is always right there with me.

Jon Harper, a Georgetown University graduate and famous politician, once said, “We must slow down and remember that sometimes technology may be needed simply to support our kids' passions, not replace them.” Technology advances faster than anyone could have ever expected. Schools implement technology devices to replace books and paper that was once used. Though technology can help students find information fast and easy, it does not out weigh the negative aspect of essentially brain washing them. By creating an easy to use device in schools, it can create distraction and misuse of the items. Though learning advantages exist, before fully implementing technology into schools, facilitators need to evaluate the factors of negative efficiency, child development, and future impacts.

Computers and technology has evolved over the years and has come useful but there are many reason that contract the good. Due to all this technology changed over the time, you can see that human interaction has stopped and it has failed to fill our needs of education. What I mean by this is that we are really not being educated but take what others put online and automatically believe it is right. Instead of researching and making your own conclusion. Another reason to why computers and technology is not good for society is because it has become very dangerous and harmful in many ways.

Technology has improved drastically over the years. People can’t imagine living a day-to-day life without technology. No one can walk down a sidewalk without having to see someone on their phone, tablet or video game. When my parents were growing up, all the knew was how to play outside they was no technology around. Biological evolution has changed drastically just like technology have evolved. In “The Limits of Friendship,” by Maria Konnikova reminds us how the social media has affected our day-to-day life. Social Media and Technology have made a tremendously changes in our life that we may never be able to get back. Next generations may not know how even to interact people outside the world of technology. In “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era,” by Richard Restak, have come up with the concept that multitasking can affect our relationships. We have to come to term what is the most important thing that need to be done first. People are altering the way they act with other people. While Technology has advanced throughout the past generations, it has influenced social and biological evolution drastically that cause major impact in everyone life.

Technology, an indispensable necessity to most people’s life just as air, food and water did. The amount of its advantages, which change our life into a better one, is enough to prove its own value. Technology penetration has been grown fast than a few decades back. It has become one of the commodities in our lives, however it can as well be an invasion on personal space (John Thackara, 2006: 3).

In the modern era, our society has become accustomed to not paying attention to our surroundings whether it be in class, while walking, or even driving. Most of the time students and even adults are often consumed by technology and do not pay attention to the world right in front of them. In addition, technology has enabled our society to have new sense of multitasking and have become comfortable with doing work without consulting others. This microtheme addresses these issues and requires us to work in a group and to collaborate and discuss ideas to formula patterns and a detailed analysis.

Do you remember the days of going outside and playing games, riding bikes, and just hanging out with friends around the neighborhood? While these days are not completely gone yet they are slowly fading away due to the use of technology. It is said that on average a person is on their phone twice as much as they think they are a day. This is an issue that I have been blind to for years as I to have been trapped in this reoccurring theme of electronic dependency. Now there are many advantages to the technology that we have obtained the last decade. Technology has been very important to our society from an educational and entertainment standpoint. While, Modern-day technology has been proven to be a useful tool for communication and some even believe it enhances our communication skills, I believe that it has severely affected our conversational abilities and our ability to form intimate relationships.

In the article by Dr. Vannevar Bush titled “As we may think” many issues relating to technology and its advancements and tragedies were mentioned. The article begins with Dr. Vannevar Bush discussing science and its relationship to warfare to be more specific his involvement as one of the scientists to develop the atomic bomb. A bomb that had many repercussions and killed approximately “140,000 people. This was a retaliation for what happened in pearl harbor which an attack on American soil by the Japanese. As a result, the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as started a war. The technological advances made by the scientists had advances that help civilization and caused a lot of destruction as well.