Living with Technology

The use of technology is increasing day by day, we all depend on technology and we use various technologies to accomplish specific tasks in our lives. Today we have various emerging technologies which impact our lives in different ways. Technology is being implemented in almost every section of our lives and business structures.  It does not matter which industry you’re dealing in, technology will be of use in a certain manner.  So embracing it and learning how to use technology in whatever we do is very important and recommended. With technology playing a significant role in my life as a student and as a future teacher, sometimes I find it rather difficult to engage in a conversation with friends without the use of technology. My friends and I find excitement through watching YouTube videos and listening to music, which then leads to conversation. I have yet to see people engage in conversations the “old fashion” way, without phones, tablets, or computers and that is something that I would like to see more of. I am challenging myself to power my phone off when I am at dinner or hanging out with friends, but I always failed to do it.

Let’s use our imagination a bit. If the internet, mobile devices, and games were taken away from us, how would we feel? I know many of us would feel like a part of our life is missing due to technology now being a necessity in our everyday life. However, the big question is, does technology take away from interpersonal communication and interactions with our co-workers, peers, and colleagues. How many of you have rather talked to someone through text messaging, email, or social media to avoid a face to face communication? We may not realize it, but in my opinion, being dependent upon technology has only conditioned us to become less social, interactive, and outgoing. Technology can make us aloof with others that cannot understand or relate on how we are living. It can make us more focus on gadgets, online gaming and other applications that we’re not necessarily need to use. It can also let us to connect with sites that are not suitable for us like porn sites.

But for some instances we cannot deny that technology really contributes a big part to help us to have easy and comfortable life. Technology helps us to communicate with our loveones in other parts of the world, through internet using different applications like Facebook, face time, Skype, chika messenger, viber, and other stuffs like those. Technology helps us in education, professors/ teachers can now use projectors as their IMs. Remember that the learning capabilities of people depend from audio to visual. Visual presentation through technological devices allows professors to make visual learners easily understand and more interesting. In the same manner, teachers can easily lessen the load of work they need to do when preparing their presentations as well as the records of grades of their students. In health, in the early centuries doctors find it hard to know the sicknesses and cure for their patient, but nowadays it’s just a piece of cake for them because technology arises. Transportation, in the early centuries you will probably walk from home to office without transportation and you will do the same when going back home. It is one of the greatest developments in our technology, from a bicycle comes a car, a train, a boat, a ship and a plane. Without these developments, travelling from one place to another will take too long and it could waste a lot of your time. Technology also helps us from businesses, like in Agricultural business, without those invented machines our farmers would really suffer under the sun for several hours. Those are some things that we need to be thankful that technology does exist in our generation, but we should also be aware that we shouldn’t be so abusive in using those because everything that is too much might cause harms or problems.

Always remember that as the world keeps on developing, technology will be changed, what is working today might not work not be efficient tomorrow. So it is better to stay up-to-date with new emerging technologies and learn how to embrace and use them in your daily life.