Importance of technology
Without technology, our lives wouldn’t be just the usual walk in the park daily routine. Technology is a huge contributor to the well being of human kind. Just try to imagine how hard it would be to make it through the day without the simplest of technologies. We have grown by using the luxuries that technology provides that many wouldn’t know how to adapt to the traditional and simpler methods. Technology has surely proven itself to be very beneficial, if not necessary. Some people may be confused on what exactly technology is? Technology is the systematic study of the methods and techniques employed in industry, research, agriculture, and commerce. These studies are then put to use in order to make daily life much easier. Some might think that technology is not necessary due to the opinion that it brings out the worst in people.
The earliest technologies of all time are said to be made during the Paleolithic Era. When these technologies were made, language was a key factor in their creation. Right around 250,000 years ago, homo sapiens used the first kind of language. With this language, humans were able to communicate their different ideas, or technologies, through verbal communication. Human ancestors have been using stone and other tools since long before the emergence of Homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago. These tools greatly aided the early humans in their hunter-gatherer lifestyle to perform a variety of tasks including chopping wood, cracking open nuts, skinning an animal for its skin, and even creating other tools out of softer materials such as bone and wood. Other technological advances made during the Paleolithic era were clothing and shelter. the adoption of both technologies cannot be dated exactly.
But the results could be seen until our era also. In the past ten years technology has completely changed the way we live. The progress in technology have not slowed down and it continue to advance so must we and the world around us change also if we want to keep up. Before the turn of the century we were in a world of mass media. As a population we were stuck together and all marketed at in the same style regardless of our social class and other social and personal differences. Pop culture was central, hug and controlled by big trans-national media companies. This has changed drastically in the last decade. With the advancement in internet technology such as mobile internet and broadband people have more access to various forms of entertainment, information and communication. With all these changes the way we interact and use media has changed, however questions can be raised about how much influence this has on us and who controls this. The media corporations, which make up the mass media, have also had to change by using new technologies and platforms to sell their products. New technologies have raised new problems and questions can be raised as to whether this is really progress.The influence of the Internet has caused a change in the way we communicate, learn and shop.
The Internet is probably most famous for the ability to spread information, fact or fiction. We were once limited to news editors of a local paper, then to national cable news. Now anyone can search the globe, visit local papers in foreign countries, and see the views of all sides. This ease of information has also brought with it a large amount of hoaxes, money schemes, and fallacies.
There is no question that easy access to the Internet, like the introduction of mail service and the invention of the telephone, has changed the nature of people’s connection to others in their social world. Mail made possible connections among people without physical proximity, and the telephone facilitated communication among distant people, making rapid connections possible across long distances. But has this communication revolution changed the pure nature of interpersonal and group processes? On the one hand, since the primary use of the Internet is communication, some people might speculate that the Internet will have positive social consequences in people’s everyday lives because it increases the frequency and quality of interpersonal communications among people. People with easy access to others would feel better connected and more strongly supported by others, leading to happiness and engagement in families, organizations, communities, and society more generally. But, on the other hand, the ease of electronic communication may lead to weaker social ties, because people have less reason to leave their homes and actually interact face to face with other people. The Internet allows people to more easily work from their home, to form and sustain friendships and even romantic attachments from their home, to bank from their home, to vote and engage in political and social issue based discussions with others. In this modern high-tech world, the mobile phones have become an inseparable object from our daily life. The handset are gaining its importance in today’s world because of their communication features. Therefore it can be said that mobile phones have turned out to be one of the most popular additions to style statements. These devices can be seen out among people of all ages, all over the world. Many people consider that without mobile phone, they cannot imagine their life; both in terms of necessity and in terms of a fashion statement.
Apart from being a fashion accessory and communication gadget these phones add prestige value to the individual. The mobile phones have many other benefits to offer to their users such as camera, music player, games, GPS, Mobile office and much more. With high connectivity features, the users can stay connected with the world and their loved ones whenever and wherever they want.
As a matter of fact, initially mobile phones were launched in the market to provide the normal telephonic communication with the help of the wireless technology and the short message service(which is always known as SMS). The phones also provide phone book storage, organising of dates and time. The phones also worked as calculators also. These mobiles served as a suitable way of managing and detecting appointments
Technology has also considered a huge factor for the influence of television in our daily life this decade. Nowadays, television has become the most popular type of communication and entertainment. Because of this popularity, television clearly has a far-reaching effect on human life, and on people’s behavior.
On the one hand, television provides people with many advantages. With a TV, you can easily gain knowledge about everything. If you want to get some information about the current situation in Haiti, just turn on your TV and open CNN or BBC channels.
Also programs on TV can help people learn many practical skills to communicate with each other. The TV programs often simulate cases happening in all aspects of real life. Therefore, people can learn their own lessons from those cases. For example, from movies shown on TV, people could come to know how to behave in certain cases and then, apply into their real lives to solve their own issues. Also, TV brings a huge source of entertainment, making people’s lives more pleasant. After a long working-day, tired from all stuff you’ve done, you just want to stay at home, lying on the sofa to enjoy interesting films of all kinds, from action films, horror films to romantic films and so on. This helps you feel at relaxed and escape from your tensions. In general, TV has clearly become an essential part in human life.
TV also brings with it serious problems. Watching TV could lead to a number of health issues. For instance, in developed countries where TV is popular, many children acquire obesity because of watching TV too much without exercises. As a consequence, it leads to laziness and health deterioration. In addition, not only could TV harm people physically but it could also impact on people mentally in many cases. More and more violent behaviors are shown on TV today. As a result, they become persist obsessions in people’s mental and gradually lead them to violence in real life. Especially, young people’s fledgling brains are vulnerable to these stimuli. Many young criminals are found to commit crimes due to the fact that they simply imitate what they have seen on the screen. Since 2000 many companies have added a special filter in all LCD and PLASMA televisions and that aims to reduce epilepsy from all that colors and maintain the influence that images are having to our brain due to the velocity of the image cube that come and go in frond of us approximately 200 times per minute so since 2000-2010 TV has become safer and better for all of us since that this decade had been essential for TV companies. But this lead to even more addiction
Concluding 2000-2010 was a very important decade for technology especially on TV mobile phones and internet. Technology with the dawn of the millennium dramatically increased with super speeds internet got more updates and possibilities, as a result teenagers and people of all ages become even more internet addicts. new companies launched high definition TV’s and that cause all youngsters to get stuck with videogames and of course that was gold decade for mobile phone industries new models pop up with differed styles and colors possibilities become endless and the population became tech-addict and with an empty pocket. This decade is known as the most addictive era of all times. I believe that this decade truly should be considered as gold for technology and
