How far has technology improved our liv
How far has technology improved our lives, and is this development good?
Ever since the industrial revolution in the end of the 1700s, people lives has changed dramatically due to the increasing use of technology. However, is the development of more complicated technology only for the better, or is it going too far? In these days we are so surrounded by the technology that living in a world without it is almost unthinkable.
Technical devices have made our lives easier in so many ways. We have dishwashers, cars, vacuum cleaners, automatic lawnmowers and so many other gadgets that saves us for hours of work or transport. This gives us more time to take part in more exciting events, use more time to gain knowledge, spend more time with family and so on. As we e.g. got gadgets to help us with house maintains, we can clearly see the change in women’s lives during the 1900’s. Women got the time to get educated, get good jobs and participate more politically. So technology gives everyone more opportunities to spend time more voluntarily on things they would like.
However, as many fancy devices are created to make our lives easier, we have also created many devices that makes it easy to waste our lives on writing about, taking pictures or talking about our lives. I am thinking about social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, twitter, tumblr (and the list goes on and on), as well as addictive games. PlayStation-, Xbox-, computer-games (to mention some) have been discussed a lot when it comes to creating a negative addiction among youth, and as we see the development in addictive phone-games (e.g. flappybird, angry birds), we can easily understand why. Therefore, even though we in one way save more time at using the newer technology, we have also created a world where people spend more time than ever before looking into a screen; maybe we have developed to that point where we save time on housework only to spend more time on Facebook. So does this mean that technology
Ever since the industrial revolution in the end of the 1700s, people lives has changed dramatically due to the increasing use of technology. However, is the development of more complicated technology only for the better, or is it going too far? In these days we are so surrounded by the technology that living in a world without it is almost unthinkable.
Technical devices have made our lives easier in so many ways. We have dishwashers, cars, vacuum cleaners, automatic lawnmowers and so many other gadgets that saves us for hours of work or transport. This gives us more time to take part in more exciting events, use more time to gain knowledge, spend more time with family and so on. As we e.g. got gadgets to help us with house maintains, we can clearly see the change in women’s lives during the 1900’s. Women got the time to get educated, get good jobs and participate more politically. So technology gives everyone more opportunities to spend time more voluntarily on things they would like.
However, as many fancy devices are created to make our lives easier, we have also created many devices that makes it easy to waste our lives on writing about, taking pictures or talking about our lives. I am thinking about social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, twitter, tumblr (and the list goes on and on), as well as addictive games. PlayStation-, Xbox-, computer-games (to mention some) have been discussed a lot when it comes to creating a negative addiction among youth, and as we see the development in addictive phone-games (e.g. flappybird, angry birds), we can easily understand why. Therefore, even though we in one way save more time at using the newer technology, we have also created a world where people spend more time than ever before looking into a screen; maybe we have developed to that point where we save time on housework only to spend more time on Facebook. So does this mean that technology