How Does Technology Affect Our Lives

Science and technology affects us all in key positions that can determine the course of events in our lives and can also shape the consciousness of a generation. Science has interwoven with our lives up to such an extent that it influences the routine workings of our everyday lives. Technology such as “robots” is where we apply our scientific knowledge to achieve the goals of our interests. It is we who influences the technologies we create ourselves for our own purposes and good particularly, bring about a social change in technology. We create such technologies for our own benefits and ease which infers to a “projection” kind of relationship. Sherry Turkle’s essay, “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less
Clearly, this infers to a “projection” kind of relationship between humans and technology. Furthermore, Watters somewhat has a similar notion of this “projection” kind of relationship between humans and technology. He says that: “The intense trust the GlaxoSmithKline brain trust showed in the topic of how culture shapes the illness experience made sense given the thing of the meeting. The class of antidepressant drugs known as serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) had become the wonder drug of the 1990s, at least in terms of the profits they’d garnered for the drug company” (Watters 515). Watters tracks how “GlaxoSmithKline” sought to change the cultural beliefs of the Japanese. For him, using science and technology to make the drugs and getting those drugs approved in Japan was a costly gamble. Like “GlaxoSmithKline,” other companies around the globe too use science and technology to produce drugs with their ultimate goal of filling in
We develop different new technologies in order to “project” our desires and emotions thereby making our lives easier. Certainly, this does not intend to benefit us always. In her essay, Turkle mainly talks about the “projection” and “engagement” kind of relationships between individuals and the technologies they create. “Projection” is a kind of relationship in which only one person’s own desires and wants are taken into consideration which is the sneakiest form of internal sabotage. “Engagement” is a kind of relationship where in both people’s desires and wants are taken into consideration thus developing a healthy and meaningful connection amongst the two: “in describing people’s relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that psychologists use as a screen onto which people can project feelings and styles of thought. But as a children interact with sociable robots like Furbies, they move beyond a psychology projection to a new psychology of engagement” (Turkle 470). As adults, our relationship with science and technology is mainly to “project” our feelings and emotions. But when talking of children’s brush with technology, surprisingly, there is an “engagement” kind of relationship between the