Boon or Bane

Technology: Boon or Bane? It’s already fifteen years since the advent of the 21st century has started. New inventions had been developed. Amazing breakthroughs were done. Cure for diseases incurable before, is now made possible through the continuous research done in the field of medicine and technology. Reaching for the stars has never been easier through the inventions in technology. The things impossible from happening in the past, is now possible with the development of science and technology. The world has greatly changed. Humans are continuously trying to reach new heights. This is very observable in the tall skyscrapers most highly urbanized cities have. We all know from our science class that as you go high up in the atmosphere, pressure also increases and there is less concentration of oxygen atoms in the higher portions of the atmosphere. But this paper isn’t about the changes in the atmosphere, but is rather how technology works on us people. Take for example the 9/11 tragedy in the United States. You can completely see there how technology affects the lives the people. The World Trade Center is obviously a skyscraper, which is product of technology. On the contrary, the plane that crashed the building and lead to the large number of dead and injured people is also a product of technology. So what’s their difference then? Nowadays, technology can generally be seen as a boon rather as a bane. From the traditional letter-sending practice in the old days was then later replaced by the bulky telephones invented by Sir Alexander Graham Bell. Well, it did make communication faster and easier, but the telephones those days were as heavy as unabridged English dictionaries. In simpler terms, it’s not handy and is really bulky. With the further developments in science and technology, those bulky telephones were then reduced to smaller and a bit handy cellular phones. Handy in the sense that you can hold them in the palm of your hand but still, they’re quite