Technology at Its Sweetest Consequence
By Pauline Joy G. Katigbak
Chocolates. A dessert everyone would see piled up in a grocery store, in a person’s refrigerator and even inside one’s mouth. But, have you ever wondered about all its harm to people? Have you ever realized that it could only bring us to a certain point in life where all we see is lame useless people because of its unknown harming effects? Just like when we talk about technology. Technologies are also found at almost every corner of everyone else’s home. At the kitchen, dining room or at most, our bathrooms. It is viewed as the most essential object in today’s daily living. A part of us would always be cellphones, laptops and computers despite all the negative impacts it could give us. In this instance, technology leads to cybercrimes, pollution and human interaction.
One of the major negative outcomes of technology is cybercrime. Cybercrime is an immorality that involves technologies that affects human being and its society. As stated by Halder, D. & Jaishankar, K.(2011), cybercrimes are offences that are committed against individuals or group of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet. It is made up of a person’s misconduct that could disturb someone’s innocent life. It could move you in just one click. It could even steal your own identity and make you the talk of the town without you cracking the code. It brings out all the complications in life that leads not only you but also the people around you to danger. It has many implications including financial losses, theft of intellectual property and loss of consumer confidence and trust. And even according to DIR.TEXAS.GOV/SECURITY, the overall monetary impact of cybercrime on society and government is estimated to be billions of dollars a year. It is very obvious that a society could be affected through the means of economical problems as stated at the website.
Another negative effect of technology is the never ending issue about pollution. Pollution refers to the excessive amount of waste from different sources like machineries that cause great harm to people and the environment. There are a lot of kinds of pollution and one of those is air pollution. According to Wikipedia.com, motor vehicle emissions are one of the leading causes of air pollution. Which means that engines contributes to the excessive waste on air that may lead to some major diseases like Nausea, Headache, Fatigue, Cardiovascular illness and Cancer risk that people may gain from the exposure. As stated by Eastburn (2006) in his article, air pollution may also cause Coughs, Burning eyes and Breathing problems. Pollution doesn’t end with air because there is another type of pollution which we call, water pollution. It is the damage we cause to all forms of bodies of water in the environment. It can be due to the dangerous chemicals excreted by the machineries of factories to the ocean. As stated in the said article earlier, almost 14,000 deaths per day are reported due to the contamination of drinking water by untreated sewage in developing countries. But the most common pollution of this generation is the noise pollution. Because of all the technologies we have—cellphones, televisions, computers and speakers, people became unaware that it also contributes to the early signs of sickness that people gain like hearing loss, high blood pressure, stress and sleeping disturbance.
It is very obvious that technology is a great help in communicating to people far from us as fast as we could, as unending as possibly be. But reduced human interaction has been a problem that most people worry about because of all the gadgets and software that hinder us from communicating personally which affects us in many ways. The most established application nowadays, is Facebook. Due to its very convenient web page, people can easily post there photos, chat with their relatives and connect with their old friends. It may seem as a good idea, but unknowingly, people of this generation now relies only on the power of cellphones and gadgets that they never really knew how important it is to talk with other people directly. According to Montgomery (2013), founder of the Small Riot, communicating with loved ones via technology has become "cold and two-dimensional." Screen-based communication unbuckles us from our natural instincts, and calls for a return to physical, tactile means of interacting. Many people are talking to hospitals, nursing homes about using technology to enable mothers to feel close to a newborn, or providing relatives of hospitalized individuals with comfort, by connecting them directly. It is very obvious that even the day you were born, technology already had reduced your physical interaction with your own mother which, we all know is highly desired and necessary.
Technology has always been viewed in this generation as a necessity. We had never thought about before, where cellphones and gadgets are no way visible at all. And with the unceasing growth of technologies itself, crimes, threats and uncertainties are highly evident. Cybercrimes has contributed to bringing people’s lives to danger. Pollution, as obvious as it is, triggers people’s health conditions that lead to many harmful effects. And lastly, reduced human interaction makes people not realize the worth of speaking directly to your listener. With those entire burdens, have we ever thought of living life simply? Where advancements and technologies are not significant at all.
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