Impact Of Technology

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Technology and the Impact It Brings Technology is a vital component of our lives today and is constantly growing. Technology is essential in our lives in order to continue to maintain our needs and wants. Throughout the past decades, technology has increasingly evolved in order to better suit our needs. One of technologies most significant impacts have been the ability to bring people together through communication. The future of technology has a lot to offer since more and more innovations are happening at very fast paces. The impact of technology on our lives is a very positive one, and living without it would be close to impossible in today’s society. We need technology in order to continue to fulfill our every day needs and wants. Technology is at a point where it has become transparent; meaning that we do not notice it anymore as almost everything we use/do involves a piece of technology (Edutopia, 2007). From work, to pleasure, to school, technology is everywhere we go (Edutopia, 2007). Studies show that technology improves students learning processes everyday (Edutopia, 2007). The three main factors technology affects is business, education, and communication (Pandey, 2011). As people live day by day, technology is in each and every single step of their way. Waking up to an alarm clock, to brushing our teeth with an electronic tooth brush, checking the television for the weather for the day, to taking the bus/car to school or work, messaging friends and family the latest gossip through Smartphone’s, to placing a USB in a computer in order to print a document, e-mailing teachers proposed extensions, to video chatting with relatives in different time zones, technology is literally everywhere. Without technology many actions would not be accessible and we wouldn’t be able to fulfill our needs and wants. The rate at which technology is growing has been
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