Technology and How It Affects Your Life

Technology and How It Affects Your Life

In my opinion, technology changed our life into a simple and easy situation without question. As technology is becoming more advanced than ever, most of the products are designed to make our life more convenient. This paper will focus on the integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) as an Information System (IS) technology. My interest in GPS comes from the fact that it is a technology exploding with potential. GPS is a technology that has the potential to do good for our society, and is an important topic to research and examine.

Many things in life are centered on trying to make everything more efficient. Technology does a lot to make things in life easier, faster, and more efficient. This is so we can do more things, in a shorter amount of time, expending the least amount of physical and mental energy possible. For example, the GPS (Global Positioning System) is an amazing invention. It is a worldwide radio-navigation system formed from a constellation of 24 satellites and their ground stations. I am one of those people GPS was invented for, my sense of direction is terrible, and I get lost all the time. So when GPS came along, I was thanking my lucky stars. After using GPS for a short time, I found my sense of direction was worse. If I failed to have it with me, I was even more lost then before.

Although technology has made my life simpler, our brain still needs exercise as well. If we stop using our problem-solving skills, our logical skills and our cognitive skills- how do you expect your brain to improve. Think about modern conveniences that are helpful, but when relied on too much, can hurt your skill in that domain. Translation software: amazing, but my multilingual skills have declined, since I started using it more. I’ve now forced myself to struggle through translations before I look up the correct format. Same goes for spell-check and autocorrect, it will catch our mistakes, so you go right along,...