Are we too dependant on digital technology?
Many people think that we are not too dependant on technology but our daily lives show otherwise. How many pieces of technology do you use in your day? You wake up to the sound of your alarm clock going off. Beep! Beep! You get up, turn the lights on in your room, and walk to your kitchen, and use your electric coffee maker to pour yourself a cup of coffee, while checking your phone to see if you got anything important such as a text or an e-mail. You open the refrigerator and pull out some cold milk to pour on your cereal, and eat while you watch television. Then, you go to the bathroom and use your electronic toothbrush to brush your teeth, usually followed by your electronic razor. You walk outside, locking the house down with your electronic alarm system. You get in the car, turn it on, and open the garage door with your wireless remote, closing it again after you back the car out of your paved driveway. You turn on the GPS to guide you to work, and get aggravated as you get stopped at a few traffic lights on the way. When you get to work, you use your key card to open the door of the building, and take the elevator to your floor. As you arrive, you walk down the hall, open your office door with your keycard, you sit down at your desk, and turn on your computer, where you will work the rest of the day, until it is time to go home. Then you will get up, take the elevator to the ground floor, and walk to your car in the parking garage. You will turn on the GPS again to return home, watch the news on your television, and eat dinner that you made in a microwave, then possibly watch more TV, and go to bed. We use technology to do everything for us; we are not able to think for ourselves...
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...and are capable of anything! The tools are useful, efficient, and fast. You can keep up to date on pretty much everything and being entertained is not a bad thing. Only when it turns into a problem is it a bad thing.
In conclusion, digital technology has a lot of cons but it has some pros too. We are too dependant on it even if it is a good thing; it is running our jobs, destroying our health, deteriorating our social skills, and creating bad habits. We need to start thinking for ourselves and start doing things on our own. We are becoming so obsessed with Facebook and Twitter that we are losing ourselves in a digital world. We are not even paying attention to our friends or families. Interacting with people over a phone or computer is not the same connection you feel when seeing them in person. Human interaction is necessary and we are depriving ourselves of it.
“There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling”(39). This evidence shows that people today use technology too much and do not know the difference between sleeping and being awake. Mildred lays in bed listening to the radio and not really sleeping. (STEWE-2): The days are shorter for Mildred because she uses technology which can be a waste of time. “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away”(16). When we use less technology our time seems longer because you do something physically or creatively, but when we do use it a lot our time seems shorter.(SIP-B): Technology is also time wasting because all you do is watch or listen when you can be creating memorable bonds and living life.(STEWE-1):Everyday Montag felt like he was living with a stranger and knew something was wrong.“ He was in someone else’s house, like those other jokes people told of the gentleman drunk, coming home late at night, unlocking the wrong door, entering a wrong room, and bedding with a stranger and getting up early and going to work and neither of them wiser”(39-40). When we are focused on technology sometimes we do not realize what is happening around us. Montag had a blank mind and knew it was because of technology.(STEWE-2): When Montag meets Clarisse he knew that she was different because she didn't use technology like the other people. “I rarely watch the ‘Parlor Walls’ or go to races or fun parks”(7). Bradbury tells us that instead of our machinery we can just embrace life. He warns
Although Though technology can be good, it can be worse than good, such as people always with their faces on their phones and headphones in their ears, people neglecting books and using more online text, and people wasting their lives watching TV.Children now know how to use a phone faster than they can
A dependence on technology will not create a utopian society. Relying on technology for everything can create disruption of people’s bonds and love towards family members, disruption in people’s emotions and feelings and disruption to people physically.
Then again, I need to address whether individuals are ending up excessively becoming reliant on technology, making it impossible to arrange their regular day to day existence. For example, if my laptop broke I would feel absolutely lost. Not to mention, emails will go unread, papers and projects would vanish for good leaving no trace. We have come to a point in our society where steady contact to technology is nearly a
We already have automated machines designed to make life easier for us: vacuum cleaners, car washes, dishwashers, laundry machines, litter-box scoopers, etc. We have many automated technologies that we can set to our personal preference, such as Tv and radio stations, thermostats, lighting, etc. Bill Gates even has a feature in his house that will switch out different paintings depending on who is standing in the room. We humans like shortcuts and simple luxuries, but with technology taking away so much of our workload we are enabling ourselves to be lazy. We are already dependent on technology. In the least, we are already severely addicted to it. How many hours are spent wasted glued to our cell phones, watching Tv or surfing the web? How would you communicate with your friends and family without telephones or email? How would we cook without our gas/electric stoves and microwaves? How would we store our food without refrigeration? How would we see at night? How would we get around? Obviously, we are already in over our heads with our relationship to
Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” This quote is fully representative of society today. It has distracted us from..... One second my best friend just texted me… Ok what was I saying?.. Oh right; It has distracted us from our studies, our loved ones, and even our driving. Technology is making us less intelligent, oblivious to our surroundings, and antisocial.
Today the world revolves around different kinds of technology that are used for many things, some are necessary and some are not. Technology is a big part of our lives, and many would say we couldn’t live without it. Weather people like it or not technology is here, and it’s not going away. But a big question is; Is technology good or bad? Advancements in technology are bad For many reasons. Some are anyone who has a laptop can find someones personal information, people don’t get as much face to face interaction because they are always talking on the internet, and kids aren’t using proper grammar online, so they are losing their writing skills.
While generations of today have witnessed countless technological advances, there are also downfalls to these advancements. Technology interferes with education, attention spans, relationships, social interactions, self-esteem, and even creativity. In order for technology to have more pros than cons, it is pertinent to keep a clear perspective. Monitoring how much you or your children spend time using electronics is the key to making sure that technology is not harmful. Technology in itself is not damaging to us.
Finally I am able to describe my opinion in the situation, if whether or not society is becoming too dependent on technology. I believe that most of the times technology is helpful in carrying on everyday life, but at times technology isn’t really needed. Technology is used a lot to communicate, but some families don’t even spend time together and later just fall apart. To me medical technology is a very important factor to account for in this situation. Because it can either kill someone or save them. Education has also been brought up into this argument for helping students and affecting students. Family separation, medical advances, and education play a major rule in my decision toward this topic. Technology is a helpful tool for many people while to others it is just a distraction. Technology will never stop being developed but some of the thing being created and how they are used are really not the nessessary
People can see the many positive effects of technology from different views of human life such as education, agriculture, personal safety, and the environment. But, not everyone considers the downsides while they play Call of Duty and check Facebook for what their friends are doing. Although technology does simplify people’s tasks and duties and make things much easier, it may weaken health, kill environments, and ruin the social, human interactive life that once was.
Technology is making our life easier than before, but are we getting too much dependent on it? Technology is getting improved by past decades. It has become a part and parcel in everyday life. Without it, people would have a lot of trouble to keep pace with the whole world. At the same time, todays new generations incredibly dependent on it. They do not want to use their brain as there are lots of search engines they can easily access and can find out what they want. Technology creates problems about pollution and global warming and at the same time people are using technology to reduce these problems. Overdependence on technology is harmful for humans’ existence because it creates addiction that makes people inactive, decrease job opportunities and causes physical or mental disorders that is a great threat for mans’ life.
It’s difficult to argue the fact that gadgets have significantly simplified lives of people, while adding comfort and luxury. However, human dependence on technological devices is so immense that people stop being able to function without them. If cars go off the road no one would be able to reach their destinations. Many people would find it hard to cook without microwaves. Simple calculations would not be simple any more without calculators, while washing without a washing machine would become a torture. Our brains are under constant influence of an ever-expanding gadgetry world: Multichannel Hi-definition TV, internet, video games, Wi-Fi, bluetooth and of course smart phones - the list is never ending. In case electricity fails, life would come to a standstill, casting humanity away to the Dark Ages.
Society has been impacted both negatively and positively by technology. As a result, every aspect of our lives has been influenced by technology. Hence, life is easier, yet it has taken away some of the enjoyment. For example, remember the days of less stress and more personal interaction, when there were no online messages, no emails, social media or cell phones. We have become excessively dependent on technology. As a result, we need to rely less on technology even though it has made learning fun, and business, daily tasks, work, travel, shopping, making new friends and staying in touch easier. In conclusion, technology has a lot of benefits, yet it could take over our lives and become our worst enemy if we aren't careful.
To sum it all up, people can see many positive effects of technology on different aspects of human life such as education, personal safety, agriculture, and the environment; however, not everyone thinks about its downsides. Though modern technology indeed facilitates people’s tasks and duties, it may weaken human bodies, ruin nature, and destroy good values regarding social communication. I believe in technology, I completely support it, but only to an extent. I say go ahead and enjoy what technology has to offer, learn about the world we live in, entertain yourself and consume in it. Just until it doesn’t affect your appearance or the people around you and especially the person in you. Think about it like this, we as humans made machines we can’t let machines make us who we are.
From classroom activities to space flight and everything in between, computers are a vital part of daily life. Everything we do and every aspect of our life is affected by modern technology like the computers. Computers let us dissect any sort of data. Computers makes us reflect, hence we develop. Because of computers and the Internet, we can talk with individuals from diverse nations, and even see them via webcam. Computers have their weaknesses like they have a negative effect on individuals' health. One of the risky parts of any machine is the screen. Computers make individuals dependent. Computers are hampering individuals' improvement in regular life. We don't read printed books any longer, since we can listen and read on the web. We invest more of a chance talking online than talking face to face. Overuse of machines has numerous negative impacts, for example, creating physical/behavioral sicknesses, harming family connections and diminishing scholarly study.