In today’s generation, technology has impacted human society through its innovations, advancements, and theory. Technology has become an important factor for human society as it has not only improved the standard of living of humans, but also it has given dynamic changes in the development of the country and economic growth.
TECHNOLOGY AS A NEW FRIEND
Technology advancement has become an important factor for human beings that without this we can’t live, life without technology will be the same as life without our family members, relatives, and friends. For us, technology is like a bestie whom we like to enjoy very much and also helps in every situation whether it is difficult or easy, like giving directions to our home on Google map if we have lost somewhere and given an excessive amount of information on a particular topic.
POSITIVE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY
In the years 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of technology even more. We can’t live in this COVID-19 pandemic if technology was not there, then the situation can become even worse. In this COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses were shut down and the production cycle has completely stopped.
Many people were suffering from lockdown, sitting at home. Technology helped people during the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways, students were not able to go to schools and colleges, but due to online study platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and other apps, students were able to take classes online and give exams through google forms. People who are working professionals were doing work from home, so their official work can’t be stopped during this pandemic. This is not the only example, there are several examples of how technology helped people in the difficult situation.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY
We have discussed lots of introduction and positive theories regarding technology advancements, but there are some negative effects too of technological advancements, and talking about this will create awareness among the people, especially kids, and youth. On 30th November 2022, an artificial intelligence chatbot was developed by Open AI which allows one to have human-like conversations and get all the information in one second on a particular topic.
This chatbot is known as ‘ChatGPT’. When ChatGPT was launched for the people, then everyone has different viewpoints regarding this chatbot, many people were creating a positive image regarding ChatGPT, but there are some disadvantages that should be known.
First, it gives an advantage to copyright, as many schools have banned this chatbot because it gives all copyright content, and because of this many students have lost their thinking ability power as these students are not using their thinking to write on a particular topic and reducing their originality. Second, it is very formal, this chatbot is biased on every topic as it reduces emotionality, feeling, thoughts, and comedy.
We, humans, like to read or respond to a topic that is not very formal or which is not very professional, we want to express other personality viewpoints using different language and slang. These are the two main cons that every people should think about it.
A psychological effect of technological advancement is that by using social media apps, people are isolating (or separating or not connecting) from other people, a study found this in young adults or youth aged between 19-32 years.
TECHNOLOGY CONTROLLING US
Technology has made our life easy and faster as a bullet train by changing the way we do before. When we move forward, we are coming closer and closer to technology. We are becoming a puppet of technology which we are completely dependent on and surrounded by it. When we see the past, technology has given us lots of things from entertaining us to giving all information which we can’t imagine.
But completely dependent on him is also not right, technology is used to help in doing the difficult task in one go and help in saving our time but doing the easy task and not using our minds is not only losing our creativity but also losing our own identity as it does not differentiate other people from us.
In past years, when we woke up in the morning, we always pray to God that our day would be good and felt very happy all the time, but now the time has completely changed, when we wake up in the morning, we see mobile phones seeing the notification, WhatsApp messages, Facebook likes and other apps comments and when we sleep in the night and suddenly notification comes, we immediately woke up. This shows how technology has disturbed our routine schedule and fully controlled it.
CONCLUSION
We have discussed lots of pros and cons of technology advancements, and how they not only changed our human lifestyle but also controlled it. Every person living in this world has some special qualities or talent, these qualities and talent cannot be detected by technology apps, applications, and theories, it is detected by humans themselves. Matt Mullenweg once said, “Technology is best when it brings people together”.
By: ARYAN VERMA
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