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Negative Impact of Rapid Technology DevelopmentBY: Maya Ballesteros | Category: Technology | Submitted: 2010-09-04 07:00:37
Technology brings us more and more products which some people deem to be just a little short from miraculous. You can talk to a family member miles away from where you are in real time rather than wait 5 days for a snail mail to arrive and another 5 days for him to write back. You can see the latest picture of your newborn granddaughter who lives in another continent just minutes after it was taken. You can cruise a city you have never been before and not worry about getting lost, thanks to GPS technology installed in your car. You don't have to worry about ever losing your cat again thanks to the chip inserted inside her that lets you track her movement anytime. Technology is amazing when you are using it right. Nevertheless, the ease and time saving feature technology present us do have some negative impacts. Laziness Technology was first developed to make life easier. As things turned out, developing technology can be easy, especially with rich people interested and investing a lot of money. Plenty of daily life shortcuts are scrutinized, explored and adapted into a particular gadget. These kind of gadgets are popular and of course, more are produced for the sake of more profit. As a result however, life becomes easier and easier and technology turns people lazier. From remote control making potato couches out of us to dishwasher, automatic garage door, lawnmower and sprinkler system. There is even automatic cat food dispenser these days! Pretty soon there will be an automated microwave cum cooker that will ring your lunch, open itself and swing a plate right in front of your napping self at the living room sofa. Everything Instant With everything in real time now on the Internet, we are no longer used to waiting around for things. News are delivered to us the instant it happens half way around the globe thanks to Twitter. Latest depressing photos from last night's high school reunion will already be on Facebook in the morning, complete with insensitive comments from both the attendees and family members. When checks sent via mail take more than a couple of days we started getting antsy and wish everyone would use PayPal. When food takes longer than 15 minutes to prepare we no longer bother, we call fast food delivery. When things take some waiting we look for possibilities to substitute with something faster. We want everything yesterday. No waiting, no time to reconsider, regret should be for later. Detachment Social networking sites are big because they are social. You get to connect with people based on interests and mutual friends and have interesting conversation, all day long if you want to. This leads to codependency toward the mobile technology we need to keep us connected to said networking sites. Meanwhile, people right next to us, offline friends, family members, students, coworkers, are left on their own - although in all fairness, they are probably logging in to Facebook or Twitter themselves. Unhealthy Diet All the instant features of modern technology leads us to be impatient with home cook meals which we erroneously think as taking too long to prepare. We turn instead to fast cooking meal packets that takes 15 minutes to pop into the microwave and then presto, quick, hot, delicious meal. Unfortunately these types of instant food have gone through so many processing most of their healthy ingredients and beneficial elements have gone to the dust. Overspending Technology enable things like credit card, pre order, suggested items and all other things that entice us into buying things we don't really need. Online shopping has been known to give us links and even pictures of matching products to buy at the convenience of just another click. Wasting Time The biggest time waster of today's world is the Internet. Sure you can tell yourself you are reading news or monitoring the stock market - when the truth is other tabs are opened at Facebook where you are waiting to harvest your crop at Farmville; Twitter where you are busy retweeting the funny one liner from this funny guy you follow; I Can Has Cheezburger where you spend your whole day giggling at the funny captioned picture of cats. True, the Internet keep all the information one might need at the tip of the fingers. Still, how much time is actually spent on the Net researching for your latest assignment? Truth is, the Internet these days is pretty much like corporate emails. 1% work, 4% office gossip, 5% private chat, 90% funny forwarded articles, pictures and other memes. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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