Positive and negative impacts of technology

Technology and its Advantages

Technology is the application of ideas, concepts, tools, and energy sources to make living easier, more enjoyable, and more productive. Because of this, science deals with how and why things happen, whereas technology concentrates on making things happen. It is an area that is expanding every day, though. The technologist are inventing new items everyday replacing the old ones. In both positive and negative ways, technology has had a substantial impact on modern humans. This essay examines both the advantages and disadvantages of technology for people. With technology, humans have been able to overcome obstacles of both space and time. In time, the use of aircraft has enabled people to get to any corner of the world within a short period. Suppose for instance there was no aircraft or other fast mode of transport, and suppose people still use foot as a means of transport, then the word global village would be unknown, and many places in the world would be unrevealed. To mention just but few of the aircraft, it would not be possible to transport perishable commodities miles across the oceans or land. On space, humans have been able to learn a lot from others living miles away from them by probably visiting them by aircraft or any other means of transport.

Communication Made Easy

It is through technology that we have mobile phones and other means of technology which have made communication easy and efficient all over. It’s now an easy task to get clarification of appoint by somebody outside the continent within no time. It would be tiresome for example to travel all the way from town to home and back just to inquire the best substitute for pork to someone at home who prefers it to another meat but with a mobile phone, it just a call away. It saves time and also less tiresome. Another good thing with the mobile phone, you can locate an office or a place easily through the use of GPS, and it is so difficult to lose your way, unlike those days when they were yet to be invented.

Access to Information

It is through technology that we have the internet that we access information anytime anywhere. Unlike the old days when one was required to read a book to get knowledge from it, the internet has made learning easier. On affordability, many books would be needed to learn which are expensive in comparison to accessing the internet and finding all the information and also in many books, yours is just to choose which source you want the information. Not only learning but also getting new information about any area of interest, history of something, culture, the biography of people of interest to, information about nutrition, and much more, all are accessible through the internet.

Improving Lives and Ensuring Safety

Technology has enabled humans to be aware of things likely to happen before they happen. A good example of this is the weather forecasting therefore, one can know the best attire to put on before going for a walk. On the same, farmers can find out when to prepare their farms and the kind of crop that will suit them with a certain amount of rainfall. On many cases, people have to get informed of calamities like drought any they get prepared by storing excess food, or like the earthquakes and tsunamis, people may migrate to safer places, therefore, saving their life and minimize destruction of property.

Entertainment at Your Fingertips

Technology has played a big part in entertainment. It is now easy to get entertained by what you love most starting from playing games, watching movies or dances or songs and much more. It has however broken the monotony of traveling to get entertained in a pitch to play or watch others play. All this can be done by sitting down and look at a game or get involved in the playing of the match. It has also minimized the costs of traveling all the way to other parts of the world to watch say soccer or any other game; one is just required to sit down and look at the television.

Technology Drawbacks

Despite all the above few discussed positive impacts on human life, technology has the same numerous negative repercussions. Taking an example, the number of lives lost through accidents caused by the aircraft, vehicles, ships and many other means of transport are uncountable. Like the case of aircraft, cases of survival in the event of accidents are seldom while there are high chances of survival in case a car makes an accident. This proves that as we progress with the level of technology, the high the risk of survival we are getting in.

On mobile phones, many youths got addicted to them, and this has minimized the level of socialization. Still, on the same, cell phones has led to many secret family affairs leading up to divorce. Many of the times are when people are found on the internet watching pornographic materials hence increasing the level of immorality in the society. Another excellent case study could be of a boy who was playing a game with a smartphone, and he lost the game. Losing the game meant that he was dead according to the flow of the game. So the boy went on the internet and searched how to commit suicide, and he did it using a rope.

As much as human beings get entertained by the technology, they are likely to get less active and so many health problems get associated with this including diabetes. Human body need exercise to have healthy growth development, so people need to have a walk and get on the pitch and play games. Still, on the same, many electrical devices emit radioactive radiations which are dangerous to the body cells and can easily cause cancer. Staring at mobile phones and computer monitors’ can lead to eye problems as well.

In Conclusion

Technology has largely contributed positively in the world we are living today. New technology is always welcome to the humans, however, as the technology advances from one level to the next, the dangers are also elevating. We need to be cautious before introducing anything new to the world. It’s always good to weigh out the advantages and disadvantages of using a new technological device before using it, for example, there was the new model of vehicles introduced at a very affordable price, later it was discovered that it emitted dangerous radiation which is hazardous to humans.