The Social Effects of Technology

Simplicity is being destroyed. Technology destroys the opportunity to learn or try something yourself (StraightUp). Technology wastes time, for when people try using it to accomplish something and the technology fails, they spend more time trying to fix the piece of technology rather than trying to get what they wanted to achieve in the first place. Technology ruins an “actual” feeling of accomplishment. In a project that has been created technology-free, the results show that more energy was put into the project than if it was created with the aid of technology. Productivity is increased with the use of technology, but the thing is, its so easy to use it in order to make something. It shouldn't be so easy. It should be hard in order to craft something, so that a person can be educated upon what he/she is doing and use that in a different time or different situation. People would be so much more independent if there was no technology in the world. They would understand that life is all about survival, and there wouldn't be anything to waste money on. Even so, in reality technology should be in our lives, it shouldn't be completely gone.

Technology does help us, but only so much. The only problem is that it should be less focused on by people. It should be the lesser part of our lives rather than the greater part. We would have smarter people living in our world. We would have less lonely people in the world, less of a gap between the rich people in our world and the poor people in our world. People would be more equal to one another.

Whereas technology helps us in many ways, it also harms us in many ways. We don't need so much technology and we don't need it all the time. Technology is not as essential to our lives as it is portrayed. When stuck in a dilemma, people should not think of a solution using technology; the “easy way out.” They should learn from their problem and think of a solution using actual labor. Life wouldn't be so terrible if technology wasn't taken to the extremes that they are taken to right now by everyone. Life would be better. Life would be more spontaneous, with us using our own skills and building upon them at the same time instead of using the skills of a computer. We don't need technology as much as we seem to. Lessen the amount of time you spend with technology; get rid of your addiction. Get technology out of our jobs. Don't let technology functions that humans have always been meant to do. More technology only means more money for the manager and less money for the employees. Accept that technology should be controlled, and technology in your body should be released. Forget about the T.V., or the video games, or the iPods, the cell phones, and try learning how to play an instrument or a new sport. Have fun and go out with different people.

Make new friends, embrace the amount of time you will have if you just forget about technology even just a little bit. The world would be more efficient, more educated, if we controlled technology, and technology didn't control us.