How Does Technology Affect Human Life?

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Research question: How does technology affect human life? Did you ever ask yourself how much you use technology during your day and if you can live for only one day without using your cellphone or Internet? How would you feel about it, and in which ways would it affect your day? In this century most people are dependent on technology. Teenagers, adults and even children use cellphones, Internet and all other sorts of electronic devices day in and day out. Technology is part of our daily lives. We use it because it’s a necessity; we use it without thinking if we really need to utilize it right now. In a way technology tends to make life easier. A lot of the inventions are very useful for human life, but do we really need to use them all day long? Where are we going with all these technologies? Although technology surely has many advantages, it can also have a possible negative impact on human life and can be divided into three critical categories: cellphone, Internet and humanoid robotics. A first category of technology that can have negative consequences on human behavior is the mobile phone. Cellphones are a great invention, but do we really need to use them 24 hours a day, or are we able to switch them off some hours during the day? How addicted are we to our cellphones and how anxious do we get when we forget them at home? Some people just don’t know anymore where their boundaries are to turn off a cellphone. Mobile phones will interfere in the lives of people and a lot of cellphone users don’t know anymore when it’s the right time to turn them off. And now imagine if you forget your phone at home one day, what are you going to do? Do you freak out, do you get very anxious about it, or are you totally fine with it? For many people the answers to these questions underlie a really serious problem because cellphone users are afraid to turn off their

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