Affects of Technologies In Our Lives

       This past century has made so many modern advances with which our daily lives are affected today. The advances range from assembly line to produce cars, television, computers, internet, mobile phones to biometrics, and artificially functioning robots. In the beginning, circuits, transistors, chips, and other necessary hardware components found in all the electronics today were developed. They started very big in size, limited in capacity and storage, and transformed into very small chips to be embedded onto the motherboard or a circuit. Moore's Law predicated that about every 18 months, the size of the circuit chips and the cost would reduce when the storage capacity and the speed would increase. This law laid the foundations of today's modern computing. 

      As time went by, more and more technologies started emerging - giving a beginning to today's modern age. Computers, internet, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets were developed. The intent behind all of these technologies was to make our lives better, efficient, and productive while reducing the human labor. All of the above started out fine, but as they grew they took over the old ways of life and formed a new digital world.  A world where everything is digitally connected; where computers, smartphones/tablets and other gadgets consume most of our time whether it be to learn, shop, play, watch, listen, or talk, they are the virtual medium for it all.

       These technologies have gave us so much. They have definitely reduced human labor by automating the tedious tasks. They have created new jobs while old skills hence jobs are tendered obsolete. They have provided a new medium of learning for sure but a broken, incomplete, interruptible learning. A lot of collaborative tasks have been made possible due to these technologies at the same time interruption in learning and lack of concentration while reading have also been caused by them. As new technologies are developed especially in the field of artificial intelligence, the time isn't far where all the manual labor will be performed by the robots - killing more jobs. The way to balance the society in my opinion is to provide sufficient need and a balance for all sorts of work. That is the only way in my opinion, a society can functional well.

           The problems aren't over yet. What about the our privacy? With these technologies being part of our everyday lives, is there anymore privacy left? I don't think so. Also, people are becoming extremely open about the things they post on social networking sites without any consideration for consequences. Who knows what is happening to the data that is provided to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other such sites? People tend to put their routine activities and other personal things on these sites for everyone to see, why? What is the need for sharing such private information?

            In conclusion, I understand that this past century has brought us many great advances in technology. We should definitely be proud of how far we have advanced. I am definitely in favor of technology and its usages as long as it doesn't take away our rights and means of living lives.