Discuss the Role of Technology in Modern Life
The Role of Technology in Modern Life
The concept of technology as a necessity does not come to us as a surprise, since we have been depending on technology for decades. But what are we really using it for? How is it changing the way we live? What are we looking for when we buy a new devise? We will discuss this topics in order to achieve a clear idea of the role technology has in our lives.
Nowadays, we are far away from the days when people complained about technology’s omnipresence, it is a reality. There is technology involved in everything we do and everywhere we go, therefore, it feels like a basic need. We depend on it so much, its absence makes us feel isolated from the rest of the World and we judge people and countries depending on their technology or its lack.
This omnipresence is also partly due to the latest trends in current technology: communication and interconnection. Since the arrival of the Internet, people consider communication on of the most important things and this aspect has become a behemoth. A result of this need for Internet is Wifi; nowadays, if a device does not have wifi signal it is useless because people need to tell everyone what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A great example of this would be the new televisions with wifi signal, a few years ago –maybe even two years ago– this idea would have sounded stupid, but today it seems fundamental because now the whole family will be able to video chat with a relative that lives abroad from the comfort of their living room and principally because the video chat service is for free.
When we talk about interconnection, we mean that companies are trying to allow a complete transfer of documents, files, and programs between devices of the same brand. Apple is one of the companies that started this, that is why now everybody is using something with the apple logo on. If you have an iPhone then you decide to get an iMac in order to be able to share and store everything, but in a
The concept of technology as a necessity does not come to us as a surprise, since we have been depending on technology for decades. But what are we really using it for? How is it changing the way we live? What are we looking for when we buy a new devise? We will discuss this topics in order to achieve a clear idea of the role technology has in our lives.
Nowadays, we are far away from the days when people complained about technology’s omnipresence, it is a reality. There is technology involved in everything we do and everywhere we go, therefore, it feels like a basic need. We depend on it so much, its absence makes us feel isolated from the rest of the World and we judge people and countries depending on their technology or its lack.
This omnipresence is also partly due to the latest trends in current technology: communication and interconnection. Since the arrival of the Internet, people consider communication on of the most important things and this aspect has become a behemoth. A result of this need for Internet is Wifi; nowadays, if a device does not have wifi signal it is useless because people need to tell everyone what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A great example of this would be the new televisions with wifi signal, a few years ago –maybe even two years ago– this idea would have sounded stupid, but today it seems fundamental because now the whole family will be able to video chat with a relative that lives abroad from the comfort of their living room and principally because the video chat service is for free.
When we talk about interconnection, we mean that companies are trying to allow a complete transfer of documents, files, and programs between devices of the same brand. Apple is one of the companies that started this, that is why now everybody is using something with the apple logo on. If you have an iPhone then you decide to get an iMac in order to be able to share and store everything, but in a