How Did Technology Impact Christopher Columbus

Technology’s Impact on the Voyage of Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s voyage is a subject that has been taught to every student since kindergarten and earlier. Technology is one of the basis of modern society that we cannot even dream of living without. We rely completely on our smartphones, laptops, and global positioning system, GPS. However, the idea of combining our technology, that we find common and essential, and the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, an event that occurred hundreds of years ago, is not something that would occur to many people. The thought of Columbus’s voyage, a thing in the time we think of as disgusting and dirty, and our modern smartphones is not and idea that comes naturally. Technology would have had a major impact on Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the new world by actually sending him to India, shortening his travel times by weeks, and improving the quality of life of the men on board of Columbus’s ships. Columbus’s first and most famous voyage to the new world would have been a milestone in history but it would not have been as celebrated as it today because through modern technology and GPS, global positioning system, he would have actually gone to India instead of discovering the New World.
Columbus’s first voyage to and unintentional discovery of the Americas is a topic we are taught and heard about our entire lives, but melding the concept of the expedition centuries ago and modern-day technology. The technology we use daily seems incompatible with the voyages of Columbus, but to imagine the impact our technology, that we think of as a given, would have on his voyages truly is an intriguing idea that makes you truly think and wonder how it would have changed the course of human