Ways to Take Advantages of Technology

Ways to Take Advantages of Technology

Technology changes the world in which we live and brings us universal pollution, genetic engineering, the loss of personal privacy, and the globalization of electronic telecommunications. These changes associated with industrialization and modernization have created vast challenges as well as benefits. What we should do is to find effective ways to deal with challenges and then take advantages of technology. Richard Restak, the author of “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”, studies the effect of modern media and communication devices on our daily lives and states that distraction is driven by technology to some degree. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “Small change”, also points out that social media cannot bind us with strong ties. However, both authors agrees with the benefits brought by technology. Although Social problems of technological change range from the loss of personal privacy to the loss of face-to-face communication, and from the reducing of efficiency to Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD), we can benefit from technology which will help us build strong ties, work efficiently and access more information but only if we use wisdom and methods in how we take advantages of it.

Technology provides us many efficient ways in which we can establish a strong bond with families and friends or a new relationship with strangers, even though technology drives our life to become so fast that we don’t have enough time to have a face-to-face communication. This modern world is full of chances and competitions, which forces us to chase after our time and thus we have no time to talk with our families and friends. To some degree, development of technology contributes to that social change. As Richard Restak said, technology results in “a devaluation of the depth and quality of our relationships”(416). But, in effect, technology also builds a virtual bridge from one...