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Kenan Besirevic
1984

To begin, technology is both, a simple and complex advances that benefit humanity in one way, and hurt us in the other. I, on the other hand strongly feel that continuing advancement in technology is and will be beneficial to society. While other people can disagree, and probably bring up some good arguments in where the technology has done more harm than good, I still feel that the advancement of technology is inevitable. We, as humans are always in search of a way to make our lives easier and better. Since the beginning of time, human kind has been advancing in technology. In the book 1984, some would say that the government used technology to control people by spying on them, and I would have to agree. That would be one of the negative aspects of technology, but the positive aspects are overwhelming. Meaning, that technology brought so much good to the human kind, that the negative aspects don’t play a major role. Due to technology, peoples dreams and desires are limitless. With technology we could only improve our lives in many ways. So far, we made transportation fast and easy, and it can only improve. There are millions of examples of how technology affects us positively, but I will only mention a few.

First of all, technology made our lives much better and easier. When technology was not as good and advanced as it is today people had to work harder. In the book 1984, Winston worked ninety hour work weeks, but nowadays machines due most of the work for us. I am a cashier at Stop and Shop, and I work around twenty five to thirty hours per week. I do not have to work as much due to a fact that Stop and Shop has Self-Checkout registers. Self-Checkout registers are machines that shoppers use to pay for their groceries, it is much more convenient for the shoppers and the store as well. It takes me ten minutes to get to work, but if we didn’t have advanced technology it would take me hours walking....