The impact of new technology, especially in the developed world, is apparent all around us in the way we communicate, run business and understand the world.
From the first time a human realized that a sharpened rock could cut through tough materials, technology has incredibly impacted the way people lead their lives. These 10 recent advancements in technology have changed the way people live, play, and communicate.
Advancements in Medical Technologies - Technology helps protect and preserve the environment, improve the lives of the sick, poor and underprivileged, and, ultimately, make the world a better place.
Every part of our daily life is related to technology in one or other way.Many of us have become very dependent on technology as it plays a very important role in our daily lives. it has affected our lives both positively and negatively.
Positive Effects Of Technology On Our Lives
Technology has made it possible to communicate with people all over the world through email, instant messaging, Skype, social media, etc.
In many ways technology has enabled us to strengthen relationships by keeping in contact with old friends, colleagues, and co-workers. What would we do if we could not find old friends from high school through Facebook? Technology has even provided opportunities for students all over the world to receive an education online, while still maintaining work schedules and family. Students are now able to take webinar courses and attain their degree online just as any student on campus. Isn’t that awesome!
Negative Effects Of Technology On Our Lives
There are instances which show the problems with improved and advanced technology or the solution for one problem with the help of technology is giving rise to another problem.
Instead of taking care personally we are sending sms or giving a call on important occasions which were attended personally in olden days.
With the use of same internet children are getting addicted to online games and their physical activities and exercises are becoming considerably less.
The same social networks are creating rivalry between best friends and couples are getting divorced.
The same aviation technology is giving health problems for their workers and creating serious environmental threats. With the heavy usage of fertilizers soil is losing its natural fertility and several varieties of plants became extinct.
Consider the case study of automobiles regarding technology. Automobile technology was first developed to make the journey of humans more convenient. Now we are facing serious environment pollution issues due to vehicles which are releasing unwanted green house gases into the environment. Now we are trying for more environment friendly automobile technology which will have less impact on environment when compared with the present technology
No matter that technology has brought about an increase in the comfort and well-being of humans and ease of life, but in turn increase stress and highly strung
Technology has improved lives but at times have made us too lazy and non-creative Overdependency on gadgets and lavish lifestyle is making us non-active day by day. Our inherent talents and brainstorming attitude in doing a self appraisal work is getting deleted and becoming more dependent on technology based outputs like gadgets, softwares, games etc...
We can't deny the benefits & costs / risks that technology had brought to us as numerated by the above scholars (in fact technology is a two-edge sword that can positively & negatively impact our quality of life). However, 1 point to add is that generally nowadays we are too dependent on technology so much so that some of us treat technology as "black-box" that the certain input goes in will generate the right output. But when the technology is negatively exploited / faulty / disaster strikes / unavailable, we don't know what to do, we don't know how to fall back to manual procedure... not sure whether we can still survive without technology? Hence, it is important that through constant education & simulation to enforce there is still minimum & acceptable quality of life preserved when technology is unavailable.
"It has appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"
- Albert Einstein
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"
Technology has revolutionized our world in the past 20 years, with the rise of cellular phones, the Internet, and later, social media. While the leaps and bounds have led to amazing advances that have improved the quality of life for millions or even billions of people, there are significant drawbacks to adopting new technology to an extreme degree .....
please see the link for further info on 10 side effects of technology
We have well advanced, but we have also forgotten our harmony and attunement to nature, because actually all started learning from nature and copying models of it. Aircraft-birds just examples, agriculture- ants, architecture-spiders, etc ...
We have to reach stability, connecting modern technology with knowledge of nature.
Advancement of technology has promoted quality of life in patients like dialysis patients, but in some instance technology causes some diseases like hypertension.
Dear @Abishek, you MUST cite the original resource and ensure the proper link to!
"Our personal life is highly dependent on the technology that people have developed. Technology has advanced with years and it has changed the way we purchase products , the way we live , the way we communicate , the way we travel , the way we learn and so many changes have been brought about by these continuous technological advancements. As people’s demands and life style change, the demand for advancing the type of technology we use is high. Almost every thing we use has been innovated to better standards, a good example is the ”Mobile Phone ”, the type of mobile phones we had in 1995 are no longer on demand in this century, the demands of mobile phone users have changed greatly, and this has resulted in the advancement of mobile phone technologies."
Well from seeing the above answers i don't think i need to say anything about the question but i would like to say one thing, some may think quality of life has been changed so much and we have become slaves but if we want we can try on our own try not to become slaves of the technology by doing our work on our own and preferring to have a walk rather than using Automobiles for shorter distance and try to inculcate the good from the technology rather taking the bad and becoming slaves.