How Technology Affect Our Lives

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” It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity ” said the physician Albert Einstein. 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. Because internet is now available on every cell
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