Wildest Imagination: How Technology Is Changing Our Way Of Life

Ever wondered how many steps you took after hiking up a mountain? Ever question your heart rate after a great workout? Have you ever known someone who couldn’t hear well until they got a hearing aid or cochlear implant? Wonder why you are being asked these questions? Well, all of these questions include something that can be used to count the amount of steps, check your heart rate, and help people hear better called wearable technology. According to Dictionary.com wearable technology is a noun that is “a small computer or advanced electronic device that is worn or carried on the body.” If you take a look at the world around you, you are bound to count an endless variety of these types of devices being wore in today’s society where technology has seemed to take over. Wearable technology isn’t just used for extracurricular things like number of steps and how fast a mile was ran. They are also used for work, school and wearable technology even has very beneficial medical uses. Wearable technologies have gained both a great deal of approval by many, as well as some doubt of their usefulness and privacy, all of which are dependent of the device and its user.

According to Mail Online, the average person looks at their phone approximately 110 times a day. Whether it is to check a message, make a call, or check the time, 110 times a day seems a bit excessive. Primarily starting in the 1980s, technology has changed dramatically and rather quickly. It has changed from telephones to cell phones, computers to laptops, emailing to text messaging, CD players to iPod, and cable television to Smart TVs; technology is rapidly improving throughout the years. Over the more recent couple of decades, technology has completely changed today’s society. Not only has technology changed the way people communicate, it has also changed healthcare and work by keeping track of everyday data and expenses. Along with the way people use the internet to research any topic they want, technology has also improved the way people live their everyday lives; technology has taken over today’s society.

A text message or a phone was checked before reading this. It goes to show; technology is taking over people’s lives because everywhere someone goes technology exists. However, technology acts as a basic necessity for this generation because every question, game, or conversation happens at his or her disposal. But with the emergence of social media, people swarm Facebook or Instagram posting explicit photos or ridiculing others in order to achieve self-confidence. Technology has provided the misguided confidence society has direly waited. Do people really have such low self esteem that the number of likes dictates their popularity and looks? Nobody is to blame but him or herself for letting a piece of equipment command their lives. Everything happens on people’s phones these days. The need to go outside vanished because technology acts as a world itself. People are isolating themselves from their friends and family in order to be on Facebook. An analysis on technology reveals that technology has led to deaths, broken relationships, and insecurities.

Digital media, smart phones, computers and technology is the fastest growing concepts in our World today. They have changed the way our society does everything. Technology has made a considerable transformation in how we communicate, pay bills, check the weather and much more. Technology has made such an impact on our society today that most people won 't leave home without their cell phone. The Apple iPhone has become a great smartphone vendor by numbers and revenue. The iPhone, PureWrist payment device, and Google glass are the evidence of the direction technology is taking to bring simplicity to our everyday life.

When we look at our history, power has always been determined by those who are able to take it through physical strength. However, technology has changed that idea. It is those that have knowledge of technology that are now able to gain power. There has been a lot of debate about what technology is really doing to our society, but with power there is always responsibility. Technology is not to blame, but the ethics of those with power.

The significance of technology in our lives and how it’s different things have affected us. If we were to truly compare the way we lived years go to how we live today, we will definitely see how much of a difference there is and how technology has changed our lives. As Claire Miller states in The New York Times, “New technology is making our lives different, but not necessarily more stressful,” (Miller). Technology has given us more freedom than we could ask for and also more ways to save on supplies, time, and effort. Therefore, I don’t think it is possible to give only one type of technology all the credit for all the change in the world. How much the economy of our country and others have progressed because everything can be measured by measuring the level of technology that they have attained. This can all be due to the various elements that affect how individuals live. The greatest element determining how certain technology works is the existence of rivalry’s. Certain types of technology will only be helpful until its replacement is produced. Moreover, one of the most influential pieces of technology that has been the most successful in our lives today are the cell phones, which today are believed to be a show of evolution. Due to the large amount of changes taking place in the technical world, the reliance on technology is growing higher and higher with each day that passes. Furthermore, there are improvements that take place every few years at an extremely fast pace,

Two girls sit in silence together, one on her laptop the other on her phone. They sit across the table from one another. They obviously know one another, but say nothing as they eat and work. A college aged boy talks loudly on the phone in the dining hall, sitting by himself. He is gesticulating wildly to his conversational partner, despite the other person being an undeterminable distance from him from the point of view of the observer. In the middle of a conversation with his friend at dinner, a boy pulls out his cell phone and checks something. The friends stops talking and checks his phone as well. Conversation ceases.

I grew up in a world where 10-year-olds get their first smartphone and where babies are exposed to the Internet immediately through YouTube videos of Sesame Street or Baby Mozart Music. The Internet has become more than just a luxury but a necessity. It has become second nature to us all. When we cannot think of a word, we search for it on Google. When we need to find the fastest route back home, we look to our smartphones. When I was only six years old, I began writing poetry and sharing it online on a blog. Since then, blogging has become the norm. The Internet has become an integral part of people 's day to day lives. Not only has technology evolved, but people have evolved along with it.

One item that has flourished through the decades, and has come to substantially impact our lives is the phone. The first telephone was created in 1876, and as decades passed by, it was replaced by the cellphone, which incorporated the addition of many useful new features. Additional features such as text messaging, a built-in camera, and internet access transformed the people’s perceptions because the add-ons presented more purpose to the cellphone. With the implementation of these advancements, the cellphone proved to be a reliable tool and distracting burden in daily life; while it reduced once painfully tedious tasks to a single touch and earned much positive feedback, users had become so dependent on it that people also started to grow concerned about the cellphone and its potential impact on future generations of cellphone users.

Today a lot of people use technology such as computers, smartphones, and tablets to get information, to buy something, and to communicate with family and friends. Since technology has been developed, people’s lives have also been changed. One of the examples is that many companies have started to sell their products through the Internet and customers look for goods and buy them on the Internet. Before technology was developed, people had to go to stores to purchase products. However, we can look for and purchase products whenever and wherever we want now. Shopping has become more convenient. I also often use technology to buy products, especially flight tickets. Since I came to the United States, whenever I go traveling or go back to Japan during breaks, I used an online travel agency, Expedia, to purchase my flight tickets. This is because it is very convenient. I can search and reserve my flight quickly. Usually, I do not have any problem with Expedia, but I had trouble with it because of technology during this spring break. I think that if humans operated the service, the problem did not happen.

Technology, the most common thing in our everyday lives. Look around, just about everything that surrounds us involves some sort of technology. Technology has revolutionized greatly throughout the years. Every year technology advances more and more. It has become a great asset in our lives. Technology has facilitated communication, created convenience, and help innovated inventions.

Technology has changed the way of living across the world. Mostly, last 20 years period is a golden era for technology. People have accomplished several outstanding innovations in the field of technology. Modern technology is becoming very accessible not only for richest and developed city like New York but also for poor people and least-developed countries across the globe. It is a tremendous achievement in the field of modern technology. Today, people are no longer have to be on long queue or do long driving to get services from government agencies to the private big enterprises through small coffee shops. Technology has contributed to make our life easy and fast. However, it has created some major

Turkle senses a standstill, pleading that we still have time to take back our lives, to draw limitations on social media, to refine technology in a way that it truly benefits us and doesn’t serve selfishly motivated actions. A better way of seeing this is learning how to turn off the cyborg in us, and how to make technology a useful and effective attachment. Technology being so deeply ingrained, we have all allowed our phones to become an extension of who we are. Students in Turkle’s research sleep with their phones, and say they know when it is ringing, like phantom limb syndrome. Our smartphones are always with us, and our profiles are always on our minds. We interact with multiple messaging services via brief conversations of abbreviations and image sharing. We speak through images, abandoning words and written language. “Memes” inducing a reaction in under a minute, due to our ability to connect hundreds of cultural contexts back to a single image. No one has spoken more than several words, sometimes none, and we are in an uproar of ideas and emotions with a glance at a single image in a “meme”. We begin to think like our machines.

Today was a typical day for me. I woke up and started looking through my email and schedule on Gmail. I did a daily reading in my Jesus Calling App specifically for today, took a shower and reviewed my homework assignment on the UMUC website. Later I went for a run and tracked my mileage on Strava and noticed my friend Mike logged a bike ride yesterday so I gave him a “thumbs up.” Later, as I returned to my schoolwork I noticed some pop up ads for new places to visit in Florida since I just returned there and used my Waze and Trip Advisor to get me around.

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