The Pros And Cons Of Technology

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Today, technology has been invading our life. As we are in the twenty first century, technology is becoming more and more reliable for human to be dependant on. The growth of technology innovation is seen increasing sharply over the past few years. With the creation of technology, human now may think less and let the technology do their job. There are pro and cons having technology helping us with our daily life. For example, almost everyone can’t let go of their phone off their hands. When we gather together, almost everyone just stick their face to their smartphone and scroll social media applications. The interaction with each other is becoming lesser and lesser. As the generation goes on, in the future, people might just interact with each …show more content…

Almost everyone in the world have used it. Even babies is also exposed to technology. Basically, technology is a part of our daily lives and at our working place. Computers and other gadgets have made human life easier. Even though technology has brought many benefit for us, it could bring problems too since technology have surrounded in our environment in long term creating technostress. Today, as technology is rapidly developing , modern offices are trying to catch up with the current technology. Thus, modern offices now are equipped with computers making office workers work is just to stare at the computer. Workers who are overexposed to technology every could lead to technostress (Wang et al. 2008). Even though technostress was first found in 1980’s (Brod 1984), researchers have not yet fully understand the symptoms that technostress could lead to (Tarafdar et al. 2005). Technostress was first found by Brod in 1980 (1984) and he described technostress as a modern disease of human trying to cope with the modern technology in a healthy manner. As all of must have known, technology could bring benefits but also negative impacts on us. For example, young kids today are exposed to technology such as Ipad, Smartphones, etc. Kids then will know everything about the outside world where they are not suppose to know yet. Also, by using it almost everyday, most young kids today are using glasses since they have yet to learn how staring at a gadget could make our eyesight

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