Is Technology a boon or a bane?

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This is an interesting question that I had in my mind. I wanted to give some thoughts on this topic. Sometimes I feel that we are bound to technology so much which makes us lazy in various aspects. But that cannot be completely true because the perspective changes from one person to another person and based on the needs as well. Yesterday, I got an opportunity to watch a video about the future of technology, machine learning and Artificial intelligence. It was totally mind blowing and it also clearly implies that we still become more technology dependent in the future.

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Our future generations will be more advanced than the exposure we had. Some of us were born with limited access to technologies and later got more exposure but the future generations will be born with the technological advancements and get more access to technologies as soon as they are born.

In today's world we are so much dependent on the technology and our day to day life and activities are incomplete without the technological advancements and features we use. I wanted to compare this question with another question which people usually ask. Can science provide explanations to everything that we see around us? Similarly, there are things that technology can help us with and there are things that technology cannot fulfill.

Technology a boon or bane

Technology has contributed so much in the fields of science especially for medicine, communications, travel, education, day to day living etc. We have been enjoying lots of great things because of the technological growth around us. If we take Google Maps for example, today it has been a great tool for people to commute from one place to another. We cannot imagine the world without certain technologies. It becomes hard to cope up with certain things if we don't have the technology in the hands.

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At the same time, there are also aspects where technology has created harmful effects for the human beings. Some of the things include e-waste that we are accumulating, global warming issues, automations replacing humans etc. We can even go to an extent saying that technology has made people lazy by taking over their jobs and the manual activities they do. It has also grabbed the opportunity for humans to think and do things on their own. For everything we are now dependent on the technological gadgets around us.

I still remember that my grandparents used to do all the calculations only by mind. If we ask them something, they will calculate it by mind and give us the answers. But today even though we know how to do it by mind, we prefer doing the calculations with a calculator. I don't even want to imagine how our future generations would be.

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Technology and matchstick

This is a good analogy that is usually given for things that are both a boon as well as bane to us. If we take matchstick for example, it is used to light a fire that can be used for cooking food and the same matchstick can be used to create a fire that can burn houses or other appliances. But if we take just the matchstick, it is nothing but a great innovation and a harmless thing. It is all about how people use the matchstick. Same applies to technology as well. It is also important in who's hands the matchstick gets to. It can be fatal if the matchstick reachers bad people's hands. If a child is playing with a matchstick, this is something we have to be careful about.

We have technology today to do a CT scan today with the help of technology. The technology helps us out to identify if we have any disease in our body. But with the same technology it is also possible to identify the Gender of a child during pregnency. In India and few other countries there are incidents where people kill the unborn child based on the gender. Espeically in the village areas there used to be a practice where if the child is a girl baby, the family will not accept it and it will be killed. Here the same technology that can help in curing diseases can become a killing weapon if in the wrong hands.

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To conclude, technology is something that has been given to us as a gift. It is purely up to us to use it properly or to use it for some harmful activities. Even in the future there will be lots of technological advancements emerging out. We have to be sensible to use the technology for righteous activities.



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