Technology and Society

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Technology and Society Technology is something society uses all the time. Many people feel that we are abusing the technology we have, while others think it makes our life easier and more efficient. Technology affects our society from our households, workplaces, and everywhere else we venture. Rapid advancement of technology has made a great impact on peoples' life-styles, and there has been a debate on how we are using technology in our life. Many people think that we are now abusing modern devices to support for our own life; while others reckon that using technology brings us just good things and makes our life easier. According to what I have observed and experienced, I believe that people, nowadays, have been overly dependent on technology. Household: To begin with, it is not hard to realize the important role of technology in houses. Housewives, nowadays, are no longer “housewives” as it used to mean. They do almost every task with the assistance of modern machines. They have clothes washed by washing machine instead of doing that by hand as before or they clean dishes just by putting them into a dishwasher. In the past, televisions seemed like the luxurious thing but each family now has at least one or even more than two TV sets in their house. It is now common to catch the image of many children or some adults spending most of their time in front of the screens containing various attractive things. With the ability to download music straight to your computer from the internet, people see no need to go out and buy CD’s now. With the constant use of these luxuries, it can diminish someone’s creativity and imagination. There’s no need to sit down and let your mind wander and produce ideas, when you have a device right in front of your eyes that can do that for you. There are some benefits also: Having access to technology around the house can make
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