Technology: A Bad influence?

Can technology be bad? I believe so yes. I believe that humanity has become too dependent on technology, to the extremity that it has made most people lazy. Youngsters are growing up using computers, having mobile phones and having all the latest toys (which just happen to have the latest electronic software built in somewhere) and the reality is, children are the future. So what happens when they grow up and believe that they need more things to help them get by in life, because let’s face it, isn’t that the whole point of technology?

Electricity was created so that we didn’t have to use candles for light and fires for warmth. Typewriters, which were to eventually evolve into computers, were invented so we didn’t have to write and although it is all very well that we have these things, are we becoming more reliant on things that don’t come naturally to us? What must also be considered are the things that are getting left behind, people don’t visit libraries because they think they can get everything online and why not? If you can track something down by the click of a button, why waste time trawling through books?

But what happens when technology lets us down? No doubt we have all been victim to a computer crash which makes us lose all our work (hand written, we wouldn’t have had this problem) or perhaps a power cut that makes all of our items in the freezer ruined. This is clearly a drawback to technology that most people push aside as it only happens once in a blue moon. So most things considered, this isn’t really a big deal. But what about when it becomes a risk to our health?

According to Dr Vini Khurana ‘mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos’ as more tests are revealing ‘that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer’. This is definitely something to be concerned about as most people own a mobile phone and in some cases people choose to have a mobile phone rather than have a landline. Scarily enough Khurana notes that mobile phone usage for a decade can cause ‘certain brain tumors’ and one of those is a ‘malignant brain tumors’ which represent ‘a life-ending diagnosis’. I have been a mobile phone user for the best part of seven or eight years now and this could be having an negative effect on my brain.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-802602.html

Unfortunately, the reality is, that these types of warnings probably won’t stop people using their mobile phones and as the phone industry rises to the challenge of making a phone that ‘can do everything’ it seems that this is an offer people can’t refuse.