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Prospectus: Technology’s Positive Influence on our Lives As a young boy, I never once imagined that cell phones would be a daily routine in everyone’s life today, or that the current generation would rely on the internet so much. I grew up engaged with toys and playing outside. If one were to ask me what the internet was back then, I would look perplexed. I’ve seen technology advance each and every year; dazzling inventions and innovations never once thought before. All the technology today is immensely impacting our lives, by facilitating once difficult tasks, and enabling us to quickly access online libraries and databases that hand us important knowledge. Would we be where we are today or be as intelligent if technology never advanced? The purpose of this paper is to better understand how technology is commencing to alter our daily lives each ongoing day, little by little. Hopefully the reader and people around the world will acknowledge the fact that tech today is advancing faster than ever before, and it will impact not just one person, but everyone in the world in a positive way. Everything that once took years to accomplish, will take minutes, if not less. Everyone will …show more content…

I don’t know when particular inventions or innovations were created. I know how particular products facilitate the way we do things, but I do not know how tech could actually be harmful to us or our environment. I know that technology is highly globalized, but do not know if some places in the world aren’t conceded of it’s existence. I know that modern technology is tremendously developed, but don’t know if in the future we’ll just have a laugh at it. My research questions are when were specific inventions or innovations created, how tech could be harmful to our environment or even us, if some areas of the world don’t know of its existence, and if in the future, the technology we have today will look

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