Dependence on technology

Technology is very helpful for our lives today, but the negative part about it is the dependence we have on it. This could bring huge problems in the future, because we could be unemployed or we can start to believe that it’s impossible to make sort of thing without using technology. As a result, with this technology dependence, people can become sedentary. Technology is the set of abilities to build objects and machines to adapt the environment that helps us in what we need.

Depending on the way in which we use it, technology can affect us positively or negatively. The term technology include examples, such as a washing machine or a blender, also technological advances such as computers or mobile phones, which are constantly updated, to other more developed such as robotics, artificial intelligence and aeronautics.

This type of addiction is known as non-toxic, because the people do not use any kind of drugs or something like that. But as if it were any other drugs, addiction to technology may the person experience anxiety, hopelessness, insomnia, weak immune system, isolation, mental and physical exhaustion and dizziness, which requires professional help and psychotherapy in order for the victim to regain self-control and to handle the situation. It is necessary to ask ourselves, whether we are making appropriate use of our technology devices, or not, in that case we should reduce it before it becomes an addiction.

Between science, technology, and society, there is a close relationship and it could be considered at present as indestructible. I study computer engineering, which is a career with high technological impact, for me the technology has advantages such as easy access to information, communication, continuous and prolonged economic, both long and short distance, a very important aspect in the Twenty-First Century.

Internet use is normal for students and the majority of people in the Twenty-First Century, but was not always so. Not many years ago, about 10 people studied with other tools, consulting books in the library and spent too much time searching of data.

Internet has simplified many features and provides many advantages such as greater speed in the search of information, variety, audiovisual resources, but it also has other complications, such as the misuse of spelling and handwriting, as now routinely use a different language, filled with dots, vocal and repeated exclamations. Internet also differs from other media such as radio or television, by the easiest expansion.

The technology gives us happiness; we solve many problems. On the other hand, it has many negative aspects. One of the largest and oldest problems caused by technology is pollution, which now has become a very difficult problem to control.

In several countries of the world as the United States and England, is considered the need of a contract between government, employers, and the civil sector, associations and government agencies to share the benefits from the use of technology anticipating future problems.

People should be conscious about the use of technology because everyone can live without it. It's important to consider that technology makes life easier but it doesn't mean that is the only way that people can do something, I mean, technology shouldn't be a requisite in someone’s life.

We have to know how we use it and in which cases it is necessary and of course, take control in the quantity we use it.

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