The Impact of Technological Advancement

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Nowadays, nobody can run from technology. We cannot live separately with it. Let me prove it, when we want to communicate, we use mobile phone and, when we want to search for data, we use internet, when we want to travel, we use the car and GPS so that we won’t get lost, when we want to produce goods, we use machines, when we want to complete tasks at the office or universities we will use the Microsoft office and any other software and many more activities in our live will require us to use technologies. We can’t live without it.

Together with technology come a lot of invention, innovation and creativity. It helps us to turn ideas into something that we can touch and use or something tangible. It also helps us to add value and luxury to life which increase our quality of life. It can be so beneficial and the most important is it has make today’s world to be full of automation and make things become simpler than before.

Through the examples that I’ve mentioned above, technology has affected both of our professional and private life. There are so many different gadgets that are used in our house that can help to save our time when it comes to doing responsibilities around the house and office. There are machines that do just about everything for us these days. Technology has really changed the way everything is done.

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When we think about how things are done now, verses how they were done years ago, we can see a drastic difference. Technology has allowed us to perform the same tasks that they have done for years much more easily and quickly. This allows us to have more time to focus on other things in our life. Technological advancements have also made a big impact on our lives when it comes to economic growth.

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Through my observation, I can see that one of the biggest and rapid changes in technology is the mobile phone. Mobile phones have really made a difference over the past twenty years. It started small but now mobile phones allow you to communicate virtually anywhere. Not only that, when the mobile phone is first introduced, the functions is only to make calls and sending messages, but now, mobile phones can do more than that. It has cameras, games, movies, music, map, GPS, Microsoft Office, video call and many more. As for now, Apple has introduced the Air Touch technology where we can write a message just by waving our hand at the air.   

Computer technology is something that has also made a big impact on the world. The internet allows us to communicate from a distance, and it also allows us to do a lot of things from the comfort of our own home. Internet technology changes each and every day. It allows us to find abundance of information about virtually any topic at any time. In the future, it is sure to advance even further.

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There are online chat rooms, databases, and social networks that allow us to stay connected. People communicate via instant messaging, video chat, email, and many other ways that would not have been possible without the technological advancements that have been introduced over the years.

Although there are many benefits that we received by having technological advancement from time to time but there are other issues that arise because as a result of this phenomenon. Since people are now getting connected through electrical device, they become less committed to meet others face to face and even a group of people is being together physically, but they are actually being with other people of individual through the devices.

In addition, people become too dependent on the technology which not good. It is because, when there are too easy to make and to get things done, people may become lazy and less thinkable. What if suddenly they face any difficulties and they do not have the technological devices at that time? It must be very painful as they are not used to it.

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Lastly, rapid advancement in technology has made people become too focus in updating the latest devices so that they won’t be left behind compared to other people. This situation brings two major consequences; first, people wasting their money for unnecessary thing as the device that they are using might be still working well. Second, there will a problem on how to dispose all the unused and obsolete devices. This second problem is actually a very big problem because the cost of disposal is high, some of it cannot be recycled and worse is our earth has limited place.

As you can see, there are both positive and negative aspects that come along with the advancement of technology. It actually depends on us on how to use the technology. If we let it be helpful, then it will be good for us, but if we did not use it well and keep on updating gadget without any need, it can bring harm to the world too. 

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