Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

In the last two decades technology has been changing deeply our society. Our habits, attitudes and our management of time are completely different from what they were 20 years ago.
I think there has been a real revolution, which has broken the old system and social schemes such as the Industrial Revolution which changed the production system in the eighteenth century or the Cultural Revolution which shook the conscience of society in the sixties.
This Revolution has created many advantages in our workplaces and in our daily lives, but also some disadvantages. In many workplaces technology has improved the personnel capabilities ant it has increased efficiency, reducing the time of employment. For example now a small and very cheap computer can perform a job more accurate and in a shorter time than 20 years ago, when the some job needed dozens of people to be performed.
Technology has also improved our quality of life very much, and it has allowed us to live much better than 20 years ago. Before there were only very useful electronic devices such as refrigerators, the television and the radio, now new technology has improved our standard of life and its quality. In fact, in the Western countries where electronic devices are widespread, everybody has a mobile phone, which enables him to call everyone, everywhere, in anytime for emergency, for business or for pleasure. Moreover a lot of people have a navigation system in their own car that permits them to arrive at the desired place quickly and safely. Most people have a digital camera which can catch every exciting moments of their life and they can record all the data on a very little part of a personal computer memory and so on for other electronic devices, like the internet, satellite television, etc…

But this revolution has also create some disadvantages. Since the 1980s, technology is used daily by the majority of the population. It has become the first source of information all around the world. Moreover, an increasing number of youths become addict to all kind of gadgets and it becomes worrying. While in most instances a majority of people think that technology is here to help them make their life better, this concept is controversial for many reasons. To begin with, I believe it interferes human relationships. Furthermore, technology leads them to the incapacity to think by themselves, and finally we will observe the health effects on human. First and foremost, there are multiple negative effects of technology on human, but the most frightening is that it interferes on human relationships. In fact, nowadays there is less and less communication between people. They do not talk as much as they used to, and when they do it is mostly non-verbally. There are many reasons why this phenomenon is happening. First of all, the major cause is that technology has become fashionable. Fashion is among human’s life because it is innate that people follow it. So when technology becomes fashion, and when it is necessary to be up to date, people follow the trend. Plus, technology has become very useful on a daily basis, and humans being are always looking for the easiest and the more convenient way to do their work. For example, if a student has to do a research paper on Adolf Hitler, he only has to type his name on Google and all the information that he or she needs are going to appear on the screen. No need to go to the library and look for a book of Hitler’s biography. Thus, youths will not use their capacities to think and find information by themselves.