Young Writers Society

Technology, Life and Humanity

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” This was a quote from the very famous genius, Albert Einstein that described the real situation of the world with technology. Lots of inventions and innovations were made due to the continuous application of knowledge which makes the domain of technology to expand. People used to live in the shadow of technology all throughout. In the same way, technology varies depends on how people need or want it. Others may just use them just to show their wealth and some are working with its real purpose. Just like having cellular phones, people wanted to show off their upgraded applications instead of using its real purpose for communication. Also, technology had a great impact to the lives of most people as it gives a collection of techniques, on being an entity and as a process.

Technology has been a big part on our lives in addition to learning and discovery of new things. Tony Bates (1995) once stated in his article that people were attached on technology to improve their knowledge and learning. Likewise, developing one’s education through technology was not preferred by Bates. He claimed that learning with technology loses the capabilities of humans to think in a broader perspective which is the Discovery Channel and Flow Cable used to alter (Jamaica Observer, 2013). "Enabling the delivery of education and enhancing the learning process with our technology is an area of major focus for us.” This was a statement by Nicole Campbell of Flow Cable in which showed their support in the use of technology as the means of learning and education. It promotes technology-aided learning that can help people, especially children to cope with the new trends in technology as well as in their studies. Thus, it indicates that learning with technology is beneficiary as the world goes through it. But as the realm of technology runs bigger and better, people see it as an entity which carried out to be good or bad.

Currently, technology comes into view as entity. It is the act where people refer to technology as a real being. In the same way, humans established in their minds that technology cannot be gone and something that is really hard to loose. Humans cannot definitely live without it. And this is how technology and the machines created through it manipulate people. Magicians were behind every amazing invention based on Standerfer (2012). It is because they keep on finding new ways to improve their products so that people will get attracted and be a regular user of it. The most common example for this was the cellular phones nowadays. It comes with boundless applications that become the customer’s apple of the eye. However, it was used by many to communicate to the social world and spends too much time on it that they can never do anything. And oftentimes, people demand more of the products that will enable manufacturers make an innovation and the process continue.

The world revolves on the wide imagination of people wherein it leads to the continuous process of everything. It explores the needs and wants of the society. By this, producers seek to find what is best for the consumer’s satisfactory until the set-up of a never ending demand and production was formed. We can call this as the process. Time goes by and things are very likely to change. Wants become needs and people barely live without technology by their sides. In line with this, technology becomes something to rely on. Let us say in school, we had lots of paper works to do and reading books will consume too much of our time but with one click, answers instantly appears in front of you. It also gives relaxation whenever stress comes. Technology is such a big solution to some but could it also be a problem? We never know where all of this will lead to.

Our world, our lives and our everyday living was greatly transformed by technology as it gives man a collection of techniques, on being an entity and as a process. Lots of activities became easier to achieve, never been time-consuming, and many others that could be thankful of. But still, not all individual see it as a positive one. Some were not assured if technology works better through a wide range of techniques, with the learning that it can give, the satisfactory and a lot. All things that have done had their own positive and negative features. We must learn how to make use of it equally so that its real purpose stands out. Technology is said to be the highway of ideas which we can find every single thing that is possible on earth. Lastly, technology was to explore, innovate and transformation which now can be seen everywhere, must be used fairly and enough to be understood.

References:

Bates, T. (1995). Technology, Open Learning and Distance Education. Retrieved from T and F online Web site: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0268051960110313?journalCode=copl20#.UjE7dcaxZqU

Negroponte, N. (n.d.). Nicholas Negroponte on New Technological Solutions. Retrieved from cisl.ucar: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/zine/96/spring/articles/6.negroponte.html

Observer, T. J. (2013). Flow, Discovery Channel team up to boost technology-aided learning. Retrieved from Jamaica Observer Web site: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Flow--Discovery-Channel-team-up-to-boost-technology-aided-learning_14936521#ixzz2e1BRQeSo

Regan, T. (2007, August 29). The Technology Kids want, Versus what they need. Retrieved from Csmonitor Web site: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0829/p17s01-stct.html

Standerfer, J. (2012, March 13). Manipulate Machines, Not People. Retrieved from John Standerfer Web site: http://www.johnstanderfer.com/2012/03/13/manipulate-machines-not-people/

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