Technology. Now a days people rely on technology for well, almost everything. Banking. Communication. Learning. The list goes on. We rely on technological advances for many of the things we humans do today. We are in a way very reliant upon the things we use every day just to get use by. Have you ever lost your phone for a day, let alone for five minutes? Lets be real, that moment is scarier than the moment you realize you forgot to do your project on the day that it is due. What about when there is a power outage and its a HUGE #tbt to the olden days where electricity was candles or a big fire. It seems like us, humans are no longer doing manual work to get things done. So lets say one day all this technology we rely on so much is snatched away from us, one day out of no where. What would we do?
According to AboveTopSecret.com, technology is starting to replace humans with machines and various robots. What if technology advances so much people start finding it difficult to find employment. Also, what if technology fails and we lose valuable information we now store online such as bank statements, photographs, and other important documents.
Many say that technology is taking over their lives and often find it hard to stay focused on things that matter the most. How many of you find yourself on twitter when you were really supposed to be doing homework. Or cuddled up watching Netflix when you were supposed to be cleaning your room or having family time. Shocking yet seemingly true, according to a report from Neilson, “The average American adult spends 11 hours per day with electronic media. That includes the age-old activities of watching TV and listening to the radio — which, surprisingly, are the top two digital activities in the average American adult’s day.” Talk about a big time consumer !
Anyways, these were just my thoughts. Not really sure if this is blog worthy but I though it was worth the risk. If any of you guys comment I’m curious to know what kind of a role media plays in your life (no role, a huge role, indifferent?) Let me know!
SOURCES:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread766127/pg1
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/8-tips-to-keep-technology-from-taking-over-your-life-from-wisdom-2-0/
http://mashable.com/2014/03/05/american-digital-media-hours/
Hi, I read your post and I thought it was interesting, because technology has been one of the big “double-sword” issue in today’s society. Technology is being developed in daily basis. We see new devices and machines every so often. For this reason, it is very common in these days to see people using different devices in everywhere we go. People are strongly attached to new technology items. However as you said in the post, the technology is taking human’s space, work and responsibilities. I found this article at The NY Times, and it listed some tech. items that we’ll have in few years. I was reading this article and thought that the more tech items we’ll have in our hands, the less we’ll value our things that we have in our lives, because everything could be replaced easily. Here’s is URL of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/innovations-issue.html?_r=0