Debate On Technology

1. Bifurcated opinion about technology
2. TV a controversial device in the families
3. Viewers regarding household appliances
4. Internet a blessing & rich source of information
5. Computer the wave of future
6. What makes technology good or bad?
7. Scientists should exert their energies to useful devices
8. Conclusion

People very often debate whether technology is good or bad. Many people believe that technology can only cause ham to their lives and society, with many others strongly defined the technologies which have made their lives much more leisurely and enriching than it could have been several hundred years ago. In my opinion both of these views are correct to an extent, but I also believe that what should be examined is not whether technology in its self is good or bad, but rather how we as human use it.

For decades now, television has been accused of contributing to the dissolution of the families and the destruction of the minds of those who watch it. However, although the TV has been involved in this, he problem roots not with technology but rather the people who choose to let it run their lives. I believe this because it is parents, not TV sets, who choose to let their children sit in front of the television for hours upon hours, and it is the parents who do not intervene and replace TV time with quality family time. Technology has also been blame for destroying the minds of adults who spend too much time watching it but in fact, the blame should lie on what programs a person watches or the person who chooses to watch it continuously. Hence the television is only a contributing factor in family problems who watch television or let their children watch if who should be blamed for these harms, not technology.

Another topic that comes to mind when technology is discussed is the household appliances that have evolved in the last vacuums, dishwashers… the list goes on and on. All these things have made housework tremendously easier then it would have been about 100 years ago. This results with both positive and negative effects. It has given us easier ways to get jobs done, leaving more time for other things, but the bad part of this is what is chosen to do in this extra time. In many cases, this extra time is spent doing leisurely things, which might make us more happy, but also has an effect on our health. Lately we have become aware of the dangers of heart disease and the health benefits of exercise… the exercise we would have gotten 100 years ago just from doing our daily chores but now aren’t getting enough of because don’t have to work as hard to do those same chores. This can be blamed on technology, but again, in fact it is our own fault because we choose to use the technology and spend the extra time lazing around.

The Internet is now one of the biggest things in the world today. They say people can stay in their safety of their home while they can shop, talk to people online and even spend things like birthday cards hanks of companies that advertise on the web.

The Internet also offers a way to get information from a wide variety of sources like Compton’s Encyclopedia and other useful tools. The internet offers all of this stuff for us to browse through without leaving our home that pretty soon no one will leave their home especially with newer technology coming out every day. Computers are the wave of the future and with moderns and the Internet an now teleconferencing many more people will be staying at home while they work. New inventions like processing chips that can run billions of commands in a matter of seconds that soon will be able to take control of robots and other machinery that will make human work obsolete.

Technology is useful when we use in the right place like for medicine and other complicated procedures that make things easier. But I far that too many things are becoming automated and that leaves out any human interaction an pretty much makes a human being obsolete. Just look at the Western movies Terminator 2. A future of death and destruction that was brought on by humans that made everything they could controlled by computers and robots. I’m not saying that the world is coming to an end but what will happen when everything is being controlled by a computer. What will be left for the people in this world.

Now something that really bothers me about technology is what is made out of it. I often question why people spend so much time and money trying to come up with so many useless things when we have global warming problems and starving children working in shoe factories. For example, scientists spent years to make a clone of a sheep.

Now let me ask you, is their any practical use in knowing how to clone of a sheep? Many people think that eventually this scientific will lead into the cloning of humans, but again, what is he point? I feel strongly that nothing good can come from that. Instead, I think scientists should be using technology to come up with things that can greatly help the majority of the world’s population and make that make the world a better place.

It seems technology has brought both useful and pointless things into our lives which have contributed to making them better as well as causing negative affects upon them. As we live in this information age with new products and discoveries coming to us every day, we must remember to use our best judgment to decide what technologies are good and which could be harmful. We must also remember that whatever technology that whatever technology in itself is not to blame, but rather how we use it.