How Has Technology Affected Your Life

In year 2014, technology is well developed. Technology is the creation of human by using knowledge on tools, techniques and a little modification in order to perform and achieve success by solving problem. How did technology created? In the old days, human converse natural resources into simple tools. So, technology started to improve and bring more functions as the days grow. Nowadays, we can see things that surrounded us are mostly technology. Without technology, we can hardly imagine what our life will be. Moreover, some of us already treat technology as a part of our family. Humans rely much on technology now if being compared to the older generation. We can find technology everywhere in our house like living rooms, kitchen, laundry room and even our bathroom.

This has somehow proves that technology plays an important role in our life. Technology has brought changes to our life. It has advanced day by day. Everyone will own at least one smartphone or computer. Technology has made our life easier and comfortable. However, it also brings disadvantages to us. Firstly, technology has affected my life and everyone too. Why am I saying this? Technology has accomplished our needs in every way and provides many benefits to us. No matter the outcome is good or bad, technology definitely has made an impact to us. One of the technologies that affected most of our life is smart phone. Smart phone have make our life easier and it always bring in lot of surprise to us. For example, it allows us to make free calls and free message too.

This has helped us to save cost and time. We can even contact our family or relatives that stay in another country so that the family bonds remain strong and we do not become stranger. During the old days, people need to go to the post office to send their mail to their loves one and relatives. Sometimes, we can’t even confirm if they have received our mails too. But now we can know it by seeing the seen word or details below our text. Other than that, there are varieties of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Line, Viber, Tango and even more. We can even know new friends on our social networks too whereas some people find their soul mates on there. But still, we did not know that whether the people we know is sincere toward us. In our social networks apps, some of our privacy may not be safe too. We cannot prevent stalker and hacker too. Without our knowing, they may already track our activities and keep an eye on us too.

This is one of the disadvantages that may cause danger to our life because we do not know the action that might be taken by those people. Moreover, people tend to chat non-stop on their social networks but when they face each other in real life, they may feel awkward and do not know how to social at all. But still, when one of the family members or relatives had gone missing, we can use the tracking device on our phones to detect their whereabouts. Parents can even know if their children went to school and prevent them being influenced by bad students to absent from the class. Smart phone also advanced to the extent that we did not only send messages and call but also help us to remind us about important dates or event that we need to attend.

People nowadays also store photo and music in their smart phone too. It also contains a health device that can know how much steps you have walk today and how much calories that you have burn during your workout. We also no longer need to open dictionary and go through pages just to search for the words we do not understand or find for translation of a certain words of other language. All we need to do is just simply type in the words that we are looking for in our dictionary apps of our smart phone and we will get the answer that we want. Next, square sized and heavy televisions are now being replaced by flat and rectangular shape LCD. Televisions have become a luxury in our life. We now no longer need to held captive by the prime-time schedule of a handful of networks.

Furthermore, we don’t have to wait for our favourite shows that on air later only after a few months. We can straight away search it online and watch it. Other than that, we can even rewatch the entire seasons that we may have missed it for the first time by using Netflix. All of these have made us no worries about our favourite shows. But, family members might not gather together in the living room for the TV shows like how they do last time because of the easiness that technology has brought. Moreover, despite the advancement of technology, people can make copies from the original one and that affects the copyright of an entertainment industry and hard work of the artist. On the other hand, when it comes to photo, our old camera that need film is substitute by the new and good quality camera. We can even add effects to a photo we just took anyway we want it to be.

In addition, the inexpensiveness of snapping pictures help us to capture more moments that we want to remember and cherished in our life. We don’t even need to go to shops and get our pictures print in this generation, we can just save those pictures into a hard drives and review it later. Anyhow, people still misused the advanced of camera to capture other people privacy or install a camera on other people rooms to do something that are illegal. In the older centuries, computers cost thousands and took up entire space. Now, computers are more affordable to everyone and can easy to be carry to other places. With the help of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, students or workers can search information that they need easily. They can even note down the information by favourite the link if they want to use it later. Meanwhile, the games industries are also well developed these days.

People play online games or video games because it is fun and can occupied their free times. But, some of them may get addicted and play it for the whole day. This may not only increase the level of stress of a person but also cause them have health problem. Some of them may even die because of lacking sleep and rest. The invention of the online games will also make people lazy and stay indoor all the time. This situation is bad for our health and our spine as well as we didn’t move around more after staying only one position for hours. We also will not go for outdoors to work out or exercise like we used to anymore and this will end up more new diseases. Not only this, people are less friendly if compared to the older generation. All we do is facing our devices or tabloids and ignore the people and environment around us. This also causes more robbery cases to take place because of the unawareness of ourselves. Besides, technology helps us in daily activity.

We can do everything by using online. People can go online shopping and order it from the website. However, we can be fraud sometimes and get the wrong or cheaper items. So, there are also detriments that cause by online shopping. Many of us use the online payment system to buy airplane ticket, movies ticket and others. In effect, it brings convenient to all of us. People need not worry about the available of ticket and can even book the ticket and pay it later. Additionally, in the field of travel, we can no longer need to depend on tourism agent. We can organize our own trips by searching where are the famous places for tourist to visit and install the address into our little GPS (Global Positioning System) device. This device has helped us to maps out the route and also informs us if there’s traffic ahead.

Although it seems that it is perfect, but the GPS navigational systems are not always right and it might also lost signals. In the past, when we needed to cancel a trip, all we had to do was call our tourism agent. Instead, now it’s up to us to call the airline, the hotel and the restaurant to cancel everything. At the present time, people also work at home by using technology. We are not affected by the traffic or need to rush to the office early in the morning. Regardless, people will get lazy and lost discipline in their work. There are also robots that help us to clean up the house when we are not at our house. Anyhow, there are some narrow places that robots can’t pass by so our houses are not completely clean. Transportations have improved a lot too.

People that can’t afford car can arrive at their destinations by using public transport like monorail, train and bus. As can be seen, technology has affected our life by many ways. Without technology, I wonder how miserable our life will be. We also definitely could not live comfortably like how we do now. Problem will arise and we might be trapping in hardship. Obviously, technology is important although it still lack in many ways and bring in disadvantages. We should continue improve and advanced technology so that we will have a brighter and better future. In conclusion, technology has make our life difference and more wonderful. Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life, it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts.

References:
1.Jennifer L.Deleo (2008) How Technology has Changed Our Lives http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332338,00.asp 2. Armando Rodriguez (2011) Then and Now: How Technology has Changed Our Lives http://www.cio.com/article/2411971/infrastructure/then-and-now–how-technology-has-changed-our-lives.html 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology