The Negative Cons Of Technology

Have you ever owned a device? Well, Stefan Etienne author of “Teens and Technology Share a Future” has. As well as Leena Khan, author of “The Black Hole of Technology”. Both of these authors each have a claim on how technology can affect us in a negative or positive way, only one author incorporated a stronger case about technology.

As technology is advancing, it is ruining our reputations and everyday lives because we use it too much. “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is a story of parents who use too much technology to spoil their two kids which rely on technology and use it to kill their own parents. The Atlantic is an article on how technology has changed the concept of the community and how it affects people’s daily lives in mostly negative ways. In both sources, humans rely on technology too much, having a negative effect.

It is unbelievable how fast technology can change the way society lives today, compared to how we lived in the past and what the future has in store for us. Technology can be beneficial in the health care system by helping us create medicine and find new cures for disease we have been battling for years. However, when technology is not used to benefit us it is quiet disturbing. Technology can help improve one’s way of life, but it should not be your way of life nor control your life. In The Veldt by Ray Bradbury technology ruins family life by starting to eradicate verbal communication, family bonding, and parental responsibility.

The effects of technology usage have long been a topic of debate, with the negative consequences often being brought up. Authors such as Robert Samuels, Alison Gopnik, Nicholas Carr, Gary Small and Vorgan Gigi have all addressed this topic in their own articles. In Samuels’ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms,” he discusses the creation of private bubbles in public spaces due to technology, and the consequent alienation of others. “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution” by Gopnik argues that the habits that tech users have today have always existed, while Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” states that technology is actively changing the way humans think. “Meet Your iBrain” by Gigi and Small covers how technology affects brains and alters them. This paper will use the articles and an interview with a peer to analyze the perceived negative effects of using technology, particularly worse memory, shorter attention span, exacerbation of bad habits, and shifting emotions.

Technology has the power to change and alter the way we live our lives in many ways that most of us do not even realize it. As the years go by, modern technology has created countless opportunities with endless resources. These resources can be accessed by billions of people worldwide. However, some may wonder what changes technology has made, and have these changes improved or damaged our lives? Many authors and publishers have pondered this and publicly expressed their own perspectives over the issue of modern technology.

Ray Bradbury warns us of the devastating effects technology held for human beings and society. As progress of science and technology rapidly grew, Ray Bradbury was in complete admiration of these advances of sprouting industrial science. Growing up in the mid-1900s, Bradbury witnesses the production of new telephones, television, radio and more. Technology is invading our personal and professional lives. Such advancements also played with the curiosity of hidden human ability to create new technologies, Bradbury comments on how new technological advancements effects society. Technologies ability to distract humanity of their attention and commitments, Bradbury illustrates, has endangered our relationships with one another. By giving into these inducements we become lured away from the experiences which may someday better human life. The increase use of technology has ramification for human services delivery and quality of life for clients. There are issues surrounding the technology itself. Today we rely on digital messages delivered electronically, education via the internet, and privately own rockets to space.

In our modern day society, it is extremely common for one idea to be represented in many different ways. Both Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and M.T Anderson’s novel Feed, the broad idea of the relationship between humans and technology is portrayed. Carr’s article complains of how technology changes the way we think. Carr instigates the idea that we are losing our passion for learning as a result of the internet and search engines such as Google. These advancements, Carr proposes, lead to a world where our intelligence “flattens into artificial intelligence”. In a similar fashion, Anderson’s fictional novel addresses a set of characters who live on our planet at an arbitrary time in the future. These characters, or at least most of them, have their lives completely controlled by technology, in the form of an implanted chip, which represents to its followers the feed, a social networking site of sorts that is all-encompassing. The story shows how these technological advancements have irreversibly changed the world of the characters, where the characters are not themselves without technology. Both pieces extensively address the relationship between man and technology. While the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and the novel Feed stem from two completely different genres, both pieces encapsulate the idea that technology is leading to a loss of individuality among people.

As a Millennial and frequent user of many devices, I find that technology has drastically improved over the years, which directly correlates with the increase in its usage. Technology has become an essential piece in our generation’s functionality and therefore it is not likely to go away anytime soon. The thought of newer and better technology is usually appealing to the average consumer for obvious reasons; better entertainment, research and medical advances, etc. However, our progress as a society does not depend on technology, rather to some extent, it inhibits our ability to grow mentally.

We grew up in the age of transition. Our childhood previously consisting of jumping rope, going outside, and playing in playgrounds quickly changed into something more technological. We watched handwritten letters became electronic, film became digital, a huge corded phones become small computers in our pockets. Now we are becoming dependent on these new technologies.

The articles that we have read in class show how our lives revolve around technology. They state that we rely on technology for almost everything. For example Sherry Turkle states, “People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings.” This quote shows how people use technology at inapropriate times, and have no respect for the people around them. Sherry Turkle states how we are setting ourselves up for trouble.

Developing a more self-aware relationship with computers can directly affect our uses of technology. Imagine solving a puzzle. Each piece has an absolute position and directly affects the pieces around it, and if you remove one single piece your puzzle is ruined. That understanding of an absolution position is the same for the components of a computer; without one component, the others fail. This theory reveals moderation of use. Using a computer is simple, hopeful, and optimistic compared to traditional relationships and understanding its components reveals its complexity, mirroring the true complexity of societies. Our unrealities of substitution have cost society its focus, “We shape our buildings”, Winston Churchill argued, “…then they shape us. The same is true of our digital technologies. Technology has become the architect of our intimacies.” Its promise of vast resources and abilities are tempting, overwhelming, and can consume our lives because of our “lonely” feelings (Turkle). Dr. Stewart also supports this argument as “people go along with technology as it comes”. If you do not use it in measure than you are certain “to be overwhelmed by it” (Stewart); the technological revolution has such a great cultural change. What traditionally drove us as individuals prior to the 2000, is completely “modernized” (Stewart). One’s drive almost solely relies on technology and our

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.

Technology has played a vital role in bringing us humans where we are today. Technology is really amazing. It has been with us from the very beginning. Today, almost everything is operated by technology. All the computers, electronic gadgets, different games and so many other kinds of things were innovated and invented through the use of high technology by the experts. Our ancestors used technology in the form of tools like axes for agriculture. Every small invention is a form of technology. Whatever makes your life easy is a technology. All businesses are dependent on technology on all levels from research and development, production and all the way to delivery. Small to large scale enterprises depend on computers and internet to help them with their business needs ranging from, information management systems capable of handling all kind of information such as Clint profile, employee profile, accounting and tracking, automation systems for use in large scale production of product, package sorting, assembly lines, all the way to marketing and communication. It doesn't end there, all these product also need to be transported by sea, land, and air. Just to transport your commodities by land already requires the use of multiple systems to allow for fast, efficient and safe transportation of commodities. Without this technology the idea of globalization wouldn't have become a reality.

In this day and age almost everyone has access to the internet. People can access it through there smartphones, tablets, and computers which is in every home. This generation is just a click away from getting the answers to everyday questions. Technology has been evolving from generation to generation. The use of media has a great impact on today’s society. Most young adults and children know no other way to live but with technology. There was a time in history when books were the only outlet for the mind to be free. Children played outside and used their imagination to create an adventure. One could only envision the endless possibilities the world

Do you remember how the classrooms looked back when you were in school? The chalkboard or whiteboard, the wooden desk, the television set that was wheeled around from classroom-to-classroom on movie day, the chalk, etc. If you went to visit a classroom today, however, you might be disappointed to know that most of those things are now gone.