But not only that we have created inventions and machines to make our lives easier, more efficient some dare say, from the mastery of flight to the creation of the remote control. Technology has innovated our lives and brought us up in a society that’s entirely dependent on automation and instant gratification. We have become subordinate to technology and have been conditioned to be reliant on our own creation.
Technology has made our generation lazy and dependent.
Technology has integrated itself into every second of our lives. We are products of technology. Our brains are have been rewired to adapt this new, automated age. But with that adaption grew one of the biggest dependencies ever to grow on to mankind. Just think about it, if the internet was knocked offline for an indefinite period, where would we be? Some speculate the world would be thrown back a couple ages.
Now let’s just think of your common workplace, almost all companies have an advanced computerized system which organises tasks, helps the delivery of information and keep a record of the happenings in that workplace. If that system, the central hubs that controls the workings of the company, was say to be hit offline, most workplace become ineffectual and are not able to operate this applies from banks to legal firms. If there’s such a heavy reliance on technology that without it we are no longer able to work, then our dependency on it is beyond concern.
Now, I believe majority of young adults own a smartphone of some kind, and many of us would feel lost without it. Smartphones connect us to this other world, a world of communication where we tap on a name and are instantly connected to them. A couple decades back smartphones didn’t