Persuasive Essay On Technology

Whom or what would people considered the most terrifying thing known to mankind to exist or to have existed on this planet? Something that would inject fear into your veins, send shivers down your spine. Some would argue sadistic serial killers like Jeffery Dahmer and Ted Bundy, others would claim a 30-foot tall meat eating dinosaur. What if all these examples pale in comparison to the greatest monstrosity of them all: Technology. Technology has seeped into every facet of our lives, its slowly contorting and manipulating society for the worse. Much like the story of Victor Frankenstein who created life, so have we in technology and just like him, we have failed to look after it. Inventors and scientists have become so heavily invested in advancing technology, that given in a certain time span, society could fall subordinate to technology as it starting to have ingrained itself and handicapping society to become dependent of it.
Technology ironically enough, for its vast troves of information that are a click away, is actually hindering and affecting our intelligence as a society. “We are losing the power to concentrate. If we are not drowned by email, by text messages, or tweets telling us to look at some site or YouTube clip, or browsing our friends’ updates on a social network, listening to mp3 music, zapping
With the progression and advancements in technology, it facilities life for those who would need it, in regards to people who have lost limbs and due to medical conditions, have a really difficult time getting around. In an ideal world, only the truly handicapped individuals would utilize these types of technology, which is not the case. Much like the scene from Andrew Stanton’s Wall-E, where it shows every human being riding in a hovering chair to every location, while being obese with a TV screen in front of them. This prediction of what humanity would be like isn’t as farfetched as it