Essays about Technology-good points and bad points

The importance of technology

Technology refers to the collection of tools that make it easier to use, create and exchange information.

Nowadays, its importance is undeniable.

Most teenagers couldn’t even imagine their lives without technology, it would be meaningless.

On the one hand technology makes our lives easier, on the other hand it is a really dangerous means in the hands of human beings.

First of all, it helps everybody working and searching for information.

Teenagers have never lived without technology and don’t often think about how life was in the 1950s, for example.

Getting information was much more difficult, they had to go to a library and consult many books, while today it is necessary to have an Internet connection to get informed about eveything.

Secondly, it has shortened distances.

Planes allow us to move from a continent to another easily and quickly.

Moreover, getting in touch with people who live far from us is easier due to all the social networks that have been created in recent years.

But surely, technology does not consist only in computers, Internet, social networks and apps, but also in things that are essential for human beings’ lives, and so for our health.

Technology has helped scientists make discoveries which were unimaginable in the previous centuries.

Plenty of means that have permitted medicine to enhance have been invented.

Researchers have discovered how to cure some terminal illnesses and they are still developing cures for Cancer, SLA ecc..

Unfortunately, beyond all these benefits, there are drawbacks, too.

In the first place, the abundance of technology in daily life can often lead to the lack of social life.

More and more people prefer sending messages than talking, and social relations are gradually being substituted by Whatsapp messages and likes on Instagram.

In the second place, a really serious phenomenon is cyberbulling.

Sometimes, Internet is an unsafe means because teenagers use it to insult and mock classmates and often publish photos to humiliate them.

Last but not least, the problem of hackers.

Nowadays, it’s not difficult at all for hackers to change passwords and have access to private accounts, or even worse, to checking accounts.

To sum up, althought technology has produced many improvements, you need to be careful and use it responsibly.

Personally, I think that technology is a good discovery unless people use it eccessively, making human clones, stopping having a social life, using it to spread private information, but ONLY to get their lives better!