Technology use and abuse

A major change that has occurred in our world is the development of technology. Technology has been invented to address society´s problems and to fulfill its growing desire for speed and convenience. We “interact” with technologies on a daily basis. However, technology is not always the panacea it seems to be, because it carries a lot of problems with it.

Whereas in the past, technology was a relatively rare ocurrence, in recent times it has become commonplace. Technology has changed our lives forever. A good example are mobile phones. What do many people do (above all, teenagers who are always the most compliant) first thing in the morning? They wake up with their mobile phones' alarm , and then they check their messages. Other examples are internet (although we already have it on the phone , most of the times), digital tv, digital cameras...Everything seems to be digital. We are in the digital era, the analogical era is past, we will find it only in museums.

An important issue is the consequences of the abuse of technology. We still do not know the real consequences of this, but we do know about the advent of new addictions, obsessions ,isolation and depression among others. Is people happier today than in the past?. In general, I would say so, however we are so full of things that at the end of the day, our life runs so quickly , that we do not stop to think about the happiness in our lives. It is like we are never happy enough, we just want to have more and more and more of whatever is the new gadget in the market.

And what about military technology?. The advance of technology have encouraged the development of new weapons easily and to a lesser cost. Besides internet has facilitated illegal trading, piracy and other illegal activities which cause a lot of money and a lot of lives. Furthermore, many countries spend more money in weapons than they do in education. And not only that, technology has also snatched away the innocence from children