What technology really brings to us
Technology has been highly developed to improve human’s life. Nowadays, we have the technology that enables us to talk to friends across the ocean, to manage our schedules and even to finish most of the activities in our daily life. But do all these really give us a happier life? Does technology really take us to the day we wanted when we invented it? In this essay I’m going to discuss the effect technology has in reality.
As is always the case, something new will definitely do us good in some way. For instant, huge amount of labor work has been reduced due to the First Technology Evolution. It’s also undeniable that new technology breaks the isolation of time and distance, which makes it possible for us to share our points and views all over the world just on a click. People have been happy and enjoyed talking with SMS, email instead of sending a real letter or have a direct meeting for over decades of years.
However, is the above the life we really want? Not really. Technology seems to make everything real time. Actually, it’s not. New methods like SMS give people more time to “think” before they talk to each other, before they present their thoughts. Gradually, people begin to lose the ability to chat in real time. They rely too much on the time behind an SMS or an email. The lack of direct communication, which we usually refer to as “Face to Face”, results in even more reliance on the delayed communication. Technology, instead of helping people jump out of the circle made of time and distance, has made another circle itself
trapping people to the fear of making a real communication.
For me, I don’t think that technology is leading us to a bright future that it was supposed to. It’s rather creating another situation called “We are alone together”. Making the best of the technology doesn’t just mean let it invade every single room in our life. Only being used properly can it really bring us a happier life.
