Race And Technology Essay

The world is always moving, and time is always ticking, but nothing changes. Throughout history, repetition is always occurring, empires being built, the downfall of the civilization, government, religion, economies, all centuries old; but the one thing that is constantly changing, constantly evolving is technology. The impacts technology has made are endless, but is it being taken advantage of? On average a regular person can spend up to 3.9 years of their lives on phones and other devices. Over the course of seven million years the human race has been on this earth, technology has caused the race to be more introverted, dependent of devices as short cuts, and even caused poverty. Often described as “recharging” on their own rather than when socializing, introverts have characteristics of being shy, antisocial, and somewhat lazy. Technology has made an impact on the introverts as well as the extroverts of the world by giving them a distraction, an
One study says that obesity is on the rise, not just because of food, but because as we use more technology, we exercise less. With technology that includes cars, television, computers and mobile devices, the amount of time we spend sedentary increased and our time in physical activity dropped. Not only this, but real people are asking the internet the most simplest of questions thanks to how easy it is the just type the question on google and get the answer in less than a second. According to Google, “How to tie a tie” gets over 500,000 searches a month, and for some reason, over 1,000 people are searching “how to boil water” and even “how to boil eggs” gets over 40,000 searches per month. The human is lazy, and if we keep it up, we too will be in the wheelchairs of WALL-E in no