Monday 8 October 2012

A TECHNOLOGY MAKES US LAZY OR CONVENIENT?


Nowadays, technologies have become basic needs for every people. For example, without carrying laptops or computers, you feel incomplete. You will scratch your head and asking yourself ‘oh! No! What I’m going to do without my laptop?’ i smiled when one of my friends who had experience laptop crashes. Her life s totally miserable without laptop. All her daily work and personal had vanished. If i were in her shoes definitely I’ll lost.

It shows that, people are high depending on the technologies. No doubt technologies helped people in doing work or certain things that we think complex, but technologies will makes us weak, lazy and unproductively. Just imagine, what will be happen when the machine is out of service, people cannot do anything at all. Therefore, technology plays a major role. We live in a society where everything is so convenient, easily accessible and suited to fit in our personal schedules. Our entire world is slowly but surely being taken over by technology

In the book “Technology Matters: Questions to Live With,” author David E. Nye addresses the importance of technology and the impact it has on our daily lives. He writes: “Technology matters because it is inseparable from human beings.” Nye continues, “We are intimate with devices and machines from an early age as children.”

 
 
As examples; washing machine is the good that make life easier for housewives, people save their memories with photographers or video cameras, the most important invention in modern age -computers are used on many areas to make solution easier. There are many modern tools like these examples making life better for us but it matters according to use of it. Sometimes people could get harm by modern tools if they don't be careful on use of it. For example, computers are dangerous and waste of time when they are not used carefully. So that, the most useful tool would convert to the most harmful tool.

In modern age, we stopped our many habits even traditional ones. For Muslims in Hari Raya, visiting our elders is a great action. But slowly new generation loses that special habit. We humans are social creatures so must live together and communicate. Technology made communication easier for us. In spite of this, people waste their time with technology and this situation makes us antisocial. There are many killers of time in modern tools. Even we forget everything in life, only focus on these kind of things. Even old social games left their places to antisocial computer games. Change of habits and traditional actions disturbs old people but young people are not disturbed about this situation
 
Lastly, let’s not blame technology for this. Technologies can’t make decisions for us. technology has given us is entirely up to us that we have decided to spend that time unproductively indoors is no fault of technologies.  Till then..




 

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