By: Evon Edwin
Modern services, infrastructure, products and many others are built using scientific knowledge.
Modern technology has made a great impact to our lives today. It has made things way faster and accuracy is achieved, and also reduced manual work.
Use of modern means of communication has also made it easier and faster to send and receive a message.
The modern technology has impacted our today’s life through various ways; first, through the internet a lot has been achieved. One can get to know what happening around the globe.
Student also has the access to e-learning which has been adapted to many learning institutions.
Modern technology has also play a role in scientific researches and data analysis. For example during the outbreak of covid-19 the scientists effortlessly spend their time in labs to find a way to curb the deadly disease, and their efforts bore fruits where they came up with various vaccines to prevent the disease.
Also online businesses and advert has also risen which has led to a lot of people securing jobs on these platforms.
Then apart from all these positive impacts to us, is there any negative side of these technologies?
Yes, there is the negative part of it.
There is addition and laxity among many people to internet. Many tend to spend their time on internet and forgetting you pursue the important tasks that they have.
There is also access to pornography among the young people which leads to corrupting their mind and some end up practicing what they see on these media. These leads to unwanted pregnancies, STD’S, and many other related diseases.
Also its leading to tarnishing of the print media, as many people can now access what happening around using the internet without going to access the newspapers or magazines.
Where we are heading, technology too is taking over some part of media. For example, in the advertisement part we see the animations or even robots performing the tasks instead of humans.
Technology has greatly impacted our modern day life. So let us work with the positive part of it and trying to minimize the negative part of it.
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