Refuse It or Embrace It

I think that we should not totally refuse technology but not totally embrace it. We should find a solution in the middle of both using technology to help us, while not being dependent on technology and paralyzing our brains.

In many ways technology has increased our lives. It has helped us stay connected to many different people, sometimes all at one time! We are able to contact anyone we need whether they are at home, on the road, at school, or at work by just picking up a cell phone and calling. When we are in need of another person's help in a car accident, we can simply pick up our cell phone and call for help. Back then if you were to get into a car accident, you would most likely have no way of communication to anyone unless you borrow someone else's phone, or stop by a gas station. How would that be convenient if you were in a car accident with no form of communication device near you? I feel that in that sort of sense technology has helped us. Another way technology has helped the world grow is by making us feel like we are never alone. While walking outside to your car at night you can call someone on the phone to comfort you so in a sense you feel safe. It gives us a feeling of not being alone and that anyone who is around would not bother because the person you are speaking to on the phone can simply call for help while being on the phone with you. This is what I do when I leave the mall or school and it is pitch black outside, it gives us a sense of security or that we are never alone and we can call for help and it will be on its way any minute.

There are also many ways that technology has made us dependent because we are not forced to use our brains. For instance, 10 years ago you would have to either carry a phone book around with you or simply memorize your friend’s numbers; now you can just open your cell phone and their numbers are stored in there. You are not forced to do any thinking to memorize anything because the cell phone does all the thinking and memorization that you would have to do if you didn't have one. This somewhat paralyzes our brain or makes us dependent on technology than to use our brains to its full potential. Another thing that technology has done to us is to hurt our communication skills with one another. We could be really talkative on the internet or through text messages but when it comes down to being face to face, the conversation is stale. Like you do not know how to communicate face to face anymore, instead you are use to typing to a computer or a cell phone.

All in all there are ways that technology increased the world but in other ways technology has paralyzed us. I believe that both refusing it and embracing it would weigh out the same so if we could simply find a way to not be dependent so much on technology then everything would be fine.