Technology Induced Laziness
Introduction
When you roll out of bed your coffee is already browed. Your T.V. is turned to the news or weather channel. Your toothbrush does all the work for you as well as your razor. Even the alarm clock that wakes you up from your slumbering stupor is advancements in technology. Is our future drowning in the advances of technology? Or is the more good to come from these advances? Is the way that we live our lives today are making use lazier. From our cell phones that can do almost everything but washing the car, but wait there are automated car washes for that, from the car, to the cell phone, to television, even to the remote not just for your T.V. but for every electronic in your house. These items take advantage of the lack of control people have on their own lives. Why don’t we limit the amount of technology we use and make good use out of which we do have Frank Bowes says “We do not need to go shopping anymore, we can order almost everything from the internet.”1 These Thoughts are on the minds of many more. Just looking around the world The United States is of the most advanced countries with the success of technology, along with several other countries leading right beside or trailing shortly behind. That leads to the statistic found that the United States of America is rated number one for the amount of obese people at 30.6 percent.
Effects on the Youth
The farther growing concern how is the advancement of tech affecting our youth and young adults today. Are young adults today are being used by the advertisements and alluring new products that come out today? It is makes them do less and less every day. Sit behind a computer all day, then come home and pick up the remote to unwind. There is less stimulating activity for young adults and children today that draws their interest. They would rather be couch potatoes or lazy. Even students today are becoming much and much lazier. When everything is of the touch of your finger it draws
When you roll out of bed your coffee is already browed. Your T.V. is turned to the news or weather channel. Your toothbrush does all the work for you as well as your razor. Even the alarm clock that wakes you up from your slumbering stupor is advancements in technology. Is our future drowning in the advances of technology? Or is the more good to come from these advances? Is the way that we live our lives today are making use lazier. From our cell phones that can do almost everything but washing the car, but wait there are automated car washes for that, from the car, to the cell phone, to television, even to the remote not just for your T.V. but for every electronic in your house. These items take advantage of the lack of control people have on their own lives. Why don’t we limit the amount of technology we use and make good use out of which we do have Frank Bowes says “We do not need to go shopping anymore, we can order almost everything from the internet.”1 These Thoughts are on the minds of many more. Just looking around the world The United States is of the most advanced countries with the success of technology, along with several other countries leading right beside or trailing shortly behind. That leads to the statistic found that the United States of America is rated number one for the amount of obese people at 30.6 percent.
Effects on the Youth
The farther growing concern how is the advancement of tech affecting our youth and young adults today. Are young adults today are being used by the advertisements and alluring new products that come out today? It is makes them do less and less every day. Sit behind a computer all day, then come home and pick up the remote to unwind. There is less stimulating activity for young adults and children today that draws their interest. They would rather be couch potatoes or lazy. Even students today are becoming much and much lazier. When everything is of the touch of your finger it draws
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