...ESSAY Life without Technology What would life be if technology didn’t existed? What if the technology we’ve developed and manufactured over the last few centuries suddenly stopped working? Nonetheless, man will still go crazy without technology, especially in today’s society. We need technology to utilise other technology. In other words, technology depends on other technologies. The economy has grown so much that we rely on technology for basic operations. We would still be sleeping on work or school mornings if it wasn’t for an alarm clock. Many people in the U.S and Canada, as with simple families, are governed by this shrewd device. But then again, you need to set a time to wake up, because without the time itself, we would be doing nothing or the tasks we manage would be uneasy. But 90% of the time without time we ought to be in great chaos. Let’s look at video games. Without them, like girls, boys would be playing with dolly houses. Life would then be for them and me, devastated. Most of them are not influenced by sports or other physical activities. So they ought to get fat or lazy. Now girls are more sensitive. So let them imagine a world without cameras or camera devices. They are more likely on the list to die if those were never in existence. Nevertheless, today’s world is always about selfies. But there is one more topical idea that goes not only for adults, but especially teens i.e. the internet. Without the internet for some adolescents...
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...Technology is all around us. We have become dependent on it. Could you imagine a day without your cell phone or computer? These devises have become, “attached to our hips” so to speak. I have heard plenty of people say, “I could not live without my cell phone” or “I would be lost without my computer.” Right now this is not something that people do not take very seriously, it is just an expression they us to express how important these devices have become to them. We all have become dependent on technology; most everything today requires technology to function making it hard to live a normal life without it today. Technology has become both a blessing and a curse, the problem is finding out if it is more of a blessing then a curse. Have you ever asked the question “can I live without technology?” To answer that question fully we would have to see how technology affects the mind and body. You would think that technology would have no effect on a person, when really it affects us more than you might realize. It depends on how you use the technology. Technology can help shape what defines you mentally and physically, if you let it. Put simply if you get use to technology making life easier then you are prone to become less active. Simple example, before computers if you wanted to know what was going on in the news, and the news was not on TV at that time then you would have to go to a newspaper stand and get a newspaper. This simple act required you to get up walk to your car drive...
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...in the 21st century seem to be reliant on technology, however, does technology help or hinder me? As a biased approach I would strongly suggest that technology improves my quality of life to the extent that if it were removed from our society, i believe my quality of life would suffer dramatically. I am attached to technology every day of my life and so I have chosen 3 parts of technology that has improved my life dramatically. The first and most important thing in technology that i believe has helped and improved the quality of my life would be medication. Not that i have a deadly disease that would kill me had i not take medication at certain times of the day but never the less medication has had a dramatic impact on me. When i was born the doctors noticed a slight problem with my immune system it wasn't a massive problem however it needed attention. I was given some medication and i was monitored for a couple of months until i was fine. On birth my immune system was weak and couldn't fight viruses or infections. It was the slightest of problems but imagine they had not had the equipment or technology to fix or even notice what was wrong with me, would i still be here today? I mean look at Ebola for example, it started in West Africa some what 20 years ago and has recently returner infecting over 15000 people mostly in Africa a continent that I would say are decades behind the rest in terms of health care and modern technology. Had this disease started in the U.K or America...
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...advances in technology for the sake of convenience. With the advancements of knowledge in our ever changing world inconvenience has become a thing of the past, or has it? In almost every aspect of one’s life we deal with technology. It is how we deal with that technology decides whether it is useful or not. In this essay, I will address the ways technology has affected my life and the lives of my friends and family through my own observations, experience and actions. Thinking of both convenience and technology in terms of comfort, it can work for us or against us. Technology has taken us away from the discomfort of everyday life that is now a thing of the past. Presently, people no longer know how to be self sufficient; technology has made us incompetent and unable to function without it. The convenience of technology brought us the remote control, so we now no longer get off the couch. Striving for comfort has removed us from the dinner table and into a fast food drive-thru. This quick and easy route has taken us away from quality time spent with the family. Technology has made us lazy, overweight, and unprepared. We have let technology take over our lives with and create a demand that if taken away would topple our society, so much so that people involve every aspect of their life, from their business and their children, with the technology. Now more than ever inventions are being made to make life easier, and make people more comfortable in the modern world. Technology has changed...
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...Technology has made life easier for people and it is now becoming something that people rely on too much. In today’s world technology is seen everywhere you go, you can see it in a workplace, schools, public places and in our homes. Technology is a great thing as long as people remember to use it as a tool and not a way of life. Because people rely on technology, it has caused problem like loss of work, vehicle accidents, and lack of proper communication. People should know how to live without fully relying on technology and sadly, not many do know how to live without it. People will argue that technology is the future and that people need to know how to use it to live. Workplaces will argue that technology has improved productivity and reduced costs. Schools will argue that technology has made learning easier for most students and it is something they need to learn to be ready for life outside of school. Most people will just simply argue that they cannot live without technology. These are all good points and yes because of technology, we have been able to get more work done in less time. Sure technology can do the work faster and with fewer mistakes as a person and learning how to use technology is something that everyone needs to know. However, we have relied too much on technology and the question should not be can you live without technology, the question should be, do you know how to live without technology. Today’s jobs mostly run on technology and less by humans....
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...Charles Klosterman’s “Zombie Life” explains his theory that technology turns you into a zombie, and you only have 2 options, take a stand and fight or sit and get sucked in. Klosterman an American author and essayist which has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post, and has written books focusing on American popular culture believes that technology is changing our way of enjoying life by depending on a device to do our communicating for us. Klosterman’s idea that technology makes us zombie like is sadly true. If you have experienced textaphrenia-thinking you have heard or felt a new text message vibration when there is no message, then you have fallen in the category that Klosterman is talking about and don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Can you imagine yourself without your phone, or without a computer, what about car? Well just think without any of those things you would think that living life would be boring and dull. You might be right but you could be wrong. Imagine yourself living hundreds of years ago where almost no sign of technology existed, then what would you do? You would do things in person instead of over the phone, you would interact with other humans who exist, and you even might live a happier life due to not having to deal with the downsides of what technology has brought us. But some might disagree and say that technology is good and makes life easier and more practical which is true without technology I wouldn’t know very much...
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...11.01.2011 Deification of Technology The term technology may have many different meanings to different persons and it can be used to describe many different things and ideas. We can speak about technology when the very first human beings realised that a regular stone can be used as a tool, that it can be sharpened and shaped, it can be piled up to build walls and houses. Round pieces of wood could be used as wheels and wheels can be used to help move cars etc. What I mean when I use the term technology in this essay is modern technology – from telephones and computers to stem-cell research and cloning. Currently we are living literally in the age of technology, meaning it is impossible to live without technology. In theory of course we could still survive or exist without technology, but what I mean by living is not surviving, or simply the physical qualities our bodies have while we are living, but being part of the society and being a more or less accepted human being among others. Living, in that sense, without using technology has been impossible for quite some time already. In order to work and keep up with our surroundings we are forced at some point to accept new technology that comes and has enough followers. In the 1980-s only few people had a possibility to use a personal computer, but now it is a common tool just as a sharp shard of rock would have been in the stone age. We have choices about what kind of computer we have or what operating systems and programs...
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...Technology Technology is the fastest growing industry in the world. The reason for technology being so important is because it has a huge spectrum of uses and purposes. Exploring these uses and purposes is a required task for us to complete. Learning the uses and purposes of technology will give one a better understanding of why technology is important. Technology makes life in today’s society much more convenient and expedient. The fact that technology is used by almost everyone is extraordinary. It makes sense to explore this topic further and learn more about what is inevitably going to change your life. Technology: What is it? Technology is the term that is sometimes used to include all the skills and tools people acquire for their convenience in their lives. The United Nations Education, Social and Cultural Organization, defines technology as: "The know-how and creative processes that may assist people to utilize tools, resources and systems to solve problems and to enhance control over the natural and man made environment in an endeavor to improve the human condition." (UNESCO, 1985). In ancient times, technology was defined by Homer and Hesiod as the spoken word of manual craft or cunning skill. By 330 BC, Aristotle created the Greek term technologia and split scientific knowledge into three parts: theoretical science, practical science, and productive science (Backer, 2005). Technology advancements started to take place in 8000 b.c. How is technology important...
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...ARE WE TOO DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY? Introduction Today, when were driving our cars, following a GPS, and talking on the phone we can wondered if we are too dependent on technology. It feels that recently, more and more people have become less connected with the real world and more connected with 'cyberspace'. Today, less people sit down to lunch and have a conversation without an interruption from a Smartphone buzzing on the table. Hardly anyone can go a day without posting a status on Facebook or sending out tweets or even constantly messaging their friends. While this all is very convenient and enjoyable, it makes us wonder…What would it be like if we all put down our phones and computers for a week and really lived life, a life outside of the confines of a cyber world. Maybe if we did this, we would be able to hold a conversation face to face without the risk of feeling uncomfortable. We wouldn’t have to wait for the delay of technology to keep us feeling secure in replies. Maybe, we wouldn’t all hide behind the mask of “a profile”. Maybe more people would be genuine and more honorable. We are all fans of technology and how much easier it makes life, however, we do feel that if individuals were less dependent on it, we would live a much more ‘real’ world. Our purpose it to expose the true colors of technology, in order to answer the question; are we too dependent of technology? Motivation The motivation factor which made us decide on the topic of this thesis is...
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...the use of nanotechnology that can repair all the cells that were ruptured n the freezing process. The technology that they were referring in the movie is called Cryonics. This Cryonics would enable a man to prolong his life and at the same time be able to revive himself in certain conditions. As a technology, it also has technological system which various aspects. The first aspect is the techniques or human activity-form. In the Cryonics, it was seen on how people preserved a dead body. In Egypt, the dead people were mummified and preserved in order to reach the second life. In Cryonics, they also want to follow this ritual or activity. They want to preserved a dead body in order to revive it and not for the preparation of the afterlife. With this technology, they can prolong the life of a person or they can make people “immortal”. The technique that they will use in technology is the power of ice to preserve a dead body. Their example is a frog that was frozen to dead and was still able to revive itself when the ice melted. The second aspect of the technological system is resources, tools, or materials. In studying Cryonics and to further develop its technology, they are using dead bodies that are stored in a freezing apparatus that has liquid nitrogen to preserve a body. All the tools that they will be using are located in their laboratories. Their tools and apparatus would enable them to further study and analyze their research on how to revive a frozen dead body. The third...
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...Audrey Runner Media: Good or Evil? I can remember what it was like to watch television as a child, in the morning while eating cereal, and how it felt playing on my Nintendo 64 and believing that piece of technology to be “cutting edge”. I also remember from an early education stand point that as a class in kindergarten we were introduced to computers, and told we would need to know how to use these when we were older. In reality, I have been born and raised in an era where technology is viewed more as a machine and not as the thriving life source of our community as it is now. Today we have digital technology everywhere; in our pockets, in our homes, in our cars, for some - even in their glasses. We are never too far from our technology or the access to social media it possesses. Social media is taking over our world. Now is this a good or bad thing? My answer to that is it always has been and always will be – there is no wrong or right. Meaning that technology and media in itself has always been progressing and digital media is just another step. Today’s media is in an ever progressing state, and it will continue to grow; such is the nature of media and social relations in themselves. Technology today has given us the ability to interact with one another much differently than we have in the past, it also has reached new heights in our ability to share and distribute knowledge, but one of the biggest problems is that of the generation gap between the technologically savvy and...
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...Technology and happiness I don’t think there’s any doubt that technology has changed our lives, but the question is, if it has made our lives better? What would it feel like, if you got the technology you know, taken away? It’s something you, and many others, grew up with. It’s a gigantic part of your everyday life and you have never tried to be without it. Would it then have been better to not know about technology from the start? If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t loose anything. We keep trying to move forward, even though no one is chasing us. Animals adapt to the environment we create. Human beings are already seen upon, as the supreme race, but that just aren’t enough, we keep increasing our knowledge. But is there really a need for that? All devices have been made to make our lives easier, but there are still so many people who suffer from a stressful life. We tell us self that we need more time, and the devices that are efficient, can make this happen. But for what price? We’ll feel helpless, if our technology is taken away from us. What would you e.g. do without any stove or kettle? There would be no hot water for your tea or cup noodles without it. And there would be no delicious, warm dinner to set on the table. Off course, you could just light a fire and heat up the water like that, but that would take time. And we love to save time, especially because we claim that we don’t have enough. If we loose our phone or computer, even for just a day, we’ll...
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...Technology – Boon or Bane? Posted on August 25, 2011by Sumukh Naik Technology is one of the greatest invention of mankind.It is so powerful that it shapes our thinking and our way of life within no time.It is ever evolving.Technology is a tool invented and sharpened by humans to make their life easier.Those who know the correct application of technology, be it any sphere of activity, have managed to make lives easier for themselves and to some extent also for others. I feel the best technological breakthrough was the invention of computers which basically led to further advancement in technology viz the creation of many softwares and hardware. Technology has gifted mankind with various boons but look closely and you will realise that technology have blessed mankind with two very important aspects – facility of communication and creation of time. Creation of phone, fax, paging services, mobile services, video conferencing etc are few of the facilities that the human mind has been able to conceive with the aid of technology.All have played a very important part in making the world a ‘Global Village’. Technology has ensured that one can easily communicate with anyone on land, in air(aeroplanes) or even when the person is under the calm waves of dark deep-sea (submarines). But the Time Creation aspect of technology has now posed a challenge and threat which very few had ever thought of. Computers – They have evolved rapidly at the rate of knots. A few decades ago, a single...
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...The Pervasiveness of Technology within Our World Over a long time, there have been varied opinions from different groups of individuals concerning the value of technology in our lives. Currently, the technological advancement has made the world a global village where you can access all sorts of information and services, reach people and places with ease and interact on various platforms such as business. As a result of these, technology has had a significant control on the way we carry out our daily activities and how we relate with each other. However, some school of thought argues that the technology has had very little impact on our lives. They see technological development as separate from our social culture and its concerns. Also, it poses a ruling force on the people who use it or interact with it. Therefore, the argument says that we have little influence on the development of technology rather we try to fit in the prevailing conditions of technology. This debate has resulted to a question whether we have full control over technology, or it is the other way round where it is the technology determines what we do. For us to understand this concept, the theory of technological determinism has played an important role. According to Oliver (2011), this theory explains that the technology is the force that drives change and progression in our society. It determines how we interact in the society. Even though some people agree with the statement, others have a different point...
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...Nature Modern life has seen many advances, from industrialization through the cell phone, which work to achieve peak efficiency. Efficiency first began as a means to make the less enjoyable parts of the day such as work go by quickly and relatively painlessly, in order for family and play time to be gained with less work. Somewhere down the road however, something went wrong and this efficiency began to destroy the ends it worked to reach. Today, technology and efficiency no longer work to aid in the achievement of life’s little pleasures that people once enjoyed. Technology has progressed so far that it has created a detachment from nature and the simple things that people once relished. As Rebecca Solnit notes in her essay, “Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche,” modern methods of transportation seem largely responsible for this disembodiment from nature. People once used to travel at no more than a few miles per hour, whether on foot or horse, which allowed them to really appreciate and take in their surroundings. With the development of trains, this was no longer the case. People were now traveling at such high speeds that the landscape became a blur, and the thrill of this new method of transportation led to few noticing what they were leaving behind. “The speed... with which the railroad proceeds through the terrain destroys the close relationship between traveler and the traveled space” (Solnit 441). The traveler no longer has the time to appreciate what he or she...
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