Written by: Muskan Singh - 2023005, Grade IX
Posted on: 14 March, 2021
Technology simply means those things that make our life easier and provides us better services to help us from different perspectives. Nowadays as technology has been developing at such a fast pace it has been affecting our lives imperiously. Nowadays we have been using technology to do simpler things to solve and do big and important issues and things. We have become lazier as it takes less effort and more comfort. This has affected our physical health as well.
Similarly being dependent on technology has made us forget about our traditional technologies and skills. Yes, technology is indeed very helpful for our daily life and they have been helping us in wonderful manners although using our effortlessness and being dependent on them has impacts on various things like traditional skills and physical health as well. We can’t read the map as now we have GPS and mapquest for the directions. People are so dependent on their things that if they don’t have them they get lost and couldn't find their destination. And I also heard about something called automatic driving in which we don't need to do anything for the operation of the manual cars it drives itself. Similarly, calculators have become so famous among the students, shopkeepers, and others as well. Many people use it to solve all the simple calculations as well instead of using their brains for it. This thing decreases the mental capacity as well. The digital compact cameras are also much popular as it is in most use the people face to use the different type of digital camera except it which is very dangerous as well.
People are so much dependent on technology that their brains cannot develop well. They are physically and mentally not fully grown. Also, they make our reading, learning, and writing powerless as much information could easily be found on the internet and other resources, so a common person doesn’t use his/her brain how much it could be occupied. Similarly, our ability to learn is also reduced as computers can provide us all the information similarly they correct our spelling and grammatical mistakes so our English cannot be improved as well. Similarly in some people get packaged food so they don’t even learn to make food by themselves which is very harmful as when they get alone then they would be affected by it.
Similarly, the internet has many facilities that help to make us listen to music, chat with our friends, watch videos and give us information about different things in a short period. Due to this people spend a lot of time on the internet rather than useful productive activities.
I am also using the internet to do my assignments easily and quickly. Then I also use it to chat with friends who are far from my home or city. And I also use it to watch anime, movies, dramas, and many other things to entertain myself. Then to listen to music, songs, and other things. But what I think that it's true that being dependent has imperious harmful effects although what I think is that if we use the technology properly and not be fully dependent on it then surely it can be very productive.
For example, we can watch useful lectures and productive things through the internet. We can learn many things through the search engine about the world, history, past, countries, scientific inventions, and many other things. Similarly, the other products as well if we use it properly then it has many benefits. So what I want to deliver the message through this article is that we should not be dependent on technology but that doesn’t mean we should not use it. If we use these technologies properly then surely we can be more productive and creative. Keeping this in consideration I hope you will also improve your habit and make good use of the technology.
