The benefits of technology definitely do not always outweigh the costs. There are many advancements in technology that greatly aid us, but are also slowly, yet surely, destroying us.
Take electricity, for example. It has saved lives, and enabled instant contact between continents. But with electricity has come TV, the internet, self-checkout machines, and an almost infinite number of other nearly useless machines.
Television has become an everyday activity in many homes. Kids watch TV instead of reading books, playing outside, or doing anything which is at all beneficial to them.
The internet has turned into such an advertisement pool, a place to take peoples money, it offers you things you don't want, get rich quick schemes, a place to steal music and movies, and it offers so many ways to lose all your money, it is almost amusing! Yet, in spite of all this, it still offers semi-reliable communications around the world; providing email, news, even places to watch church services.
When I walk into a Wal-Mart these days, one of the first things I see is machines doing work that humans could be doing, that many jobs now unavailable. I can see little or no economical benefit in these machines, except for the owners of the store.
People lose their jobs to machines everyday. Whether it is a self-checkout machine, or a machine that forms iron instead of a smith, humans are being replaced by technology.
On the other hand, electricity has brought with it useful inventions, such as the heart rate monitor, the brain activity monitor, the light bulb, air conditioners, heaters, digital cameras, and little head massages. These inventions have saved lives, lit up lives, provided comfort, and caught evildoers.
Thus can technology be our good and faithful servant, but at the same time, if it continues unchecked, it could cause the utter demise of the human race on earth.
