Monday, May 12, 2014

In What Ways Has Technology Impacted Our Lives?

In what ways has technology improved our lives in the last century? Have any technology advances made life worse? 120-150 words.

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  1. In the last years our culture has had many changes. Each age has a important part that make it unique, the technology has become in a important part of our lifes but the principal question is: is it positive or negative for us. I can see that every time that the technology approach to the human nature it make a larger gap between persons, we can see that many times the people prefer interact with electronic devices instead of persons, many things has become in necessary thing when really it is not but the society and the capitalism thinking force to the people to think like that in many cases the people lose their lifes because of that, for other part The technology can also help you if you know how to use it and you are conscious that it is just a tool that can make your life easier in the way to learn, see new information and so on. But always you have to remember, don't lose your self for the technology I mean use it but don't become it in something essential for you.

    Gersain Lozada

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  2. This is good, but can you give me a specific example of some kind of technology that supports your opinion? #mrford

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  4. #Antonio Toma
    In my opinion the technology, specially the last years, has changed our life. First of all now we can communicate very quickly with everybody; for example if somebody has a problem, in a second he/she can find a solution. The technology has some beneficts, but also a lot of negative things. Usually when the people talk about this topic think that technology is just smartphone or somenthing to communicate. We should start to think that technology is used in medicine or in engineering to get better our life. People who cannot walked few years ago now they can with the artificial leg. In engineering e.g. the new softwares allow to engineer to work more secure.
    By the way as mentioned above, the technology has negative things. We spend all the time to text with a friends, and doesn't matter if someone speak with us. Or to have a date with a girl.. before the guys tried to speak in a bar, and tried to know more about her; now it's easier because we have just to add her in a social network and that's it.
    In conclusion, we can use the technology, but we have to take care.

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    1. Pretty good Antonio! I agree that we have to stop thinking of technology as just handheld devices. #mrford

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  5. #Gabriele Galbiati

    In the last century the technology has changed our life. Now the communication are faster than before (for example if i want to video-call my parents that lives in the other side of the world, i need only to open my laptop or open the application of skype in my smart phone) and the life is easier, but the technological development doesn't have only advantages. There are also some disadvantages.
    The first disadvantages is the difficulty to fall asleep. The smartphones, laptops and tablets use a strong light that inhibit your mind and your brain exchange the day for the night. That could cause insomnia in some people.
    Another disadvantages is that a huge use of thechnology make the people less focusing and willing of study in deep. That happened because the web gives to the brain a lot of information simultaneously and the brain want more and more news. That could be a very big problem, especially for the young people, because they need to be focus and corious to develop their mind in a right way.
    In conclusion the challenge for the future will be to find a good balance between the technology and our social life.

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    1. I can agree with you that those same devices prevent us from sleeping, but I don't think it is the light as much as people wanting to stay connected to their social media. #mrford

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  6. #CristinaRepresa
    In my opinion, if we talk about medical developments it is evident that the use of technology improves the live of the people, and in this respect it is never enough. But I want to discuss about those devices that we use everyday like smartphones, laptops or tablets. The problem is not having these gadgets; the problem is the use that we make of them. In class, we talked about if they make us lazier. From my point of view this is partly true, although it depends of the person. For example, nowadays in the academic life fewer and fewer people look for a book because the most common thing is to use internet. We forget that we have great books where to find answers and learn new things. But internet is much faster and easier to use. Sometimes we should not think about what is faster or easier, we should think what is better or use both options to achieve the best.
    In conclusion, we must use new technologies without forgetting the old ways of learning.

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    1. Good write. You appealed to both sides of the argument. #mrford

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  7. Have the technology change our life style ? the right answer is , of curse , YES but in which way?
    The technology start to chenge our life since when was invented the first train , the first car or any other kind of trasportation . These invention made the way of comunication easy and at the same time was going to change the lifestyle of the people. With the passing of time the thecnology has evolved , improved and we with it. The work ,of any kind, had been made easier thanks to the support of the machine , such as agriculture or tha mass production of prodoct but like always there is another " part of the coin ". The people have become more and more lazy and sedentary because the increase of technology inside ours life took over and , probably at this moment , it has evolved more than us also because we don't know how to use it in the right way. Anyway it helped a lot of population to progress and if now we consider the technology almost as a poison it's only because of us , because we are not be able to use it correctly.

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    1. Good write. But, I think we use technology in the right way.#mrford

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  8. Technologies have impacted ours lives faster than them appears in the market. A brand new smartphone just few months later is not anymore the newest. It's not anymore like in earlies of 20th century, when a cathode ray tube appear as one of the greatests invention of the world, and only half century later the color television was made.

    Technologies came to change our worlds upside-down in many ways specially to make shorter the distance of communication. Devices, apps and faster mobile internet are some of the most important inventions in this case. Also, you can say a simple 'hi' to someone from USA to Japan in too much ways only by Internet. However, you will get confused in which one opition is better or faster. Anyone you decide to pick up, it will work as well as a message or a phone call have been. A great example is Skype or FaceTime. With these apps you can see your friend or many at the same time they see you. Besides the big advance in our communication abilities, we are more and more dependable of electricity and internet, and this can cost too much for you or your employer. So expensive that sometimes you can't afford and you will become sticked out of the world.

    In spite of technologies are really interesting, useful and a lot of fun, they didn't come to switch the real way that we were made to communicate. Humans are the only species that can talk using constructed words and many languages, so do not use only yours fingers to say good news to a person.

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    1. Very well written Lucas. We are on the same page.#mrford

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