The Evolution of Technology

Hisham Ismail
Prof. Anthony Patterson
ENGL 101
12/6/2014

Technology

Today our world has known a huge transformation in modern technologies as it is surrounded by us mostly everywhere today and everyday it’s getting developed. Technology has a great impact and influence on people these days and of course without today’s technologies it would be difficult to get things done. Although modern technology is very useful and it helps us a lot and makes our life easier, and like everything else it also has advantages and disadvantages. No one can object that technology is one of the best things man has created, so technology in general has made life simpler and keeps people in touch even though they are thousands of miles away from each of other. So usually people are very dependent on today’s technologies like internet and cell phones and those two are two of the most important features that are impossible to get rid of. But, people should start to think of our technologies in a better way because it is being used by lots of people in a negative way and this will lead us to a disaster in which we will never know how to stop it and it looks like from now it’s hard to begin to change people’s thought. So what I am going to discuss in this essay is to proof that technology is leading us to dead end if we didn’t change our thoughts of it. First of all, the conflict between technology and thinking, then technology and its effects on children and youth, technology’s effect to our environment and increasing pollution, the relation between modern technology and increasing obesity and the effects of technology on society. So, although the benefits of technology are evident, we should take its negative effects more seriously. Technology and computers have shaped our world in many ways, today with our huge technological revolution many people depend on modern technologies, for example, computers, internet and calculators. There is a big relationship between technology and thinking, from the moment all those things were invented people mostly cancelled their minds and stopped thinking and god has gave us our mind to use it in a good way and correctly. Although these inventions have really made our life easier but that doesn’t mean we should cancel our minds and make those machines do our work always. Moreover, the society may be happy with all these but thinking ourselves and leaving the most hard obstacles to computers is the right way in my opinion, so we shouldn’t be depending on them mostly and always people should be reminded that we should think. Author: Hall, Brian R. , p119-127. And to proof that our mind is great and can do amazing things without depending on any computer is that our grandparents and elders used their minds to invent todays technologies and what we see today in modern technologies they thought of them without using any kind of computers or calculators. So in my opinion our minds created modern technologies and if we stopped using it we will never make progress again and will be stuck with a disaster. The evolution of internet and World Wide Web are having a serious effect on youth and children by many different ways, internet and web surfing are one of the reasons of wasting a lot of time which young people will regret for losing it and as todays technologies like computers, cell phones, emails make things faster and people are dependent more on them because everything now goes by just one click of a mouse. All these things occur but without any physical presence and young people are losing their shape and fitness by just relaxing with their portable gadgets; moreover, social networks nowadays are making another serious problem because today everyone just keep looking into their phones, although social network makes you connect to thousands of people around the world but it makes us secluded from the real world and nowadays we can find that when a group of people are hanging out together they just leave each other and keep looking into their phones. Another great disaster like what is said in one of the articles is fake identities that are mostly found on social network where you can simply present yourself with a different identity than the one that you ordinarily occupy ( Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy. Oct-Dec2011, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p422-427. 6p.). During the last two decades wireless communication became the fastest developing technology that spread around the world, today we can find that billions of mobiles are there with most people in all countries whether they are developed or developing countries and as a result of this, “the entire world is exposed to exponentially increasing radio frequency radiations from base stations and satellite antennas” as it is said in one of the articles. This paper focused on the importance of paying special attention on potential effects of wireless technologies on children’s brain. And this is a very serious and important situation because nowadays we see that cell phones are in the hands of children as little as 3-4 years old, today children are facing also isolation because for example, I pads, I phones, video games and computers makes children to watch and face them for hours, this makes them isolated from the world outside and they will lack contact with other people in normal daily living and this is just the opposite of the older generation where they had more time outside with their friends and had creativity and also physical activities were done, now very few children do these things. With the rapid changing world of electronics and technology, industrial factories are being built which have huge machines which do many of our products and supplies, those factories are giving out toxic chemicals and it is increased every day. These waste chemicals are not usually disposed properly and it is polluting our world and this will lead to the disaster of Global Warming which our whole world is afraid of, but what is the point of being afraid of something and not trying to repair what is happening. In architecture, green technology is the best way to reduce global warming’s disaster. Nevertheless; factories polluting rivers and lakes will lead to the death of young children and people because many homeless people and who do not find suitable water to drink from will definitely drink from polluted rivers, so there should be solutions to these serious problems which shows that technology should be thought in a better way. Increasing number of obese people is also one of modern technology’s important negative points. People spend a lot of time in front of video games, computers and televisions and these things do not make us active and fit, the way one settle in front of these machines adding up that a person can also eat unhealthy food which will definitely result to be over weighted, so we should know that today’s technologies prevent us from doing exercises and activities. Moreover; unhealthy food is a result of the technology of fast food which is the most point of being over weighted. An article shows a study as mentioned in it was (Results indicate that the increase in caloric intake is associated with technological innovations as well as changing sociodemographic factors). By author: Bleich, Sara. Obesity is found more in developed countries with improved technologies and that proofs that technology leads also to obesity and we should take care and think carefully to prevent such matters. Technology will never stop its development and evolution, as it is developing it becomes more harmful to us and harder for us to prevent its harness. Technology has played a big role in wars and it destroyed many societies, for example, the atomic bomb in world war two and the invention of dynamite, which was invented for digging inside mountains now, is instead used in bombing and killing people. So we can understand that these were technological inventions which vanished many countries and killed millions of people. It is stated in one of the journals that, (failure to check rapid technological uptake will result in continued disaster and (b) the abatement of the negative consequences of UFAIL is a more tempered approach to the infiltration of technologies into society by rigorous and preemptive investigation into the potential effects of a technology). Author: Agler, David W.