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The document discusses the pros and cons of technology, highlighting its ability to enhance cultural experiences, provide insights, improve efficiency, increase profits, and simplify research. Conversely, it also addresses the destructive potential of technology, health issues related to sedentary lifestyles, privacy concerns, and the constant need for upgrades. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of balancing the benefits and drawbacks of technology in daily life.

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The document discusses the pros and cons of technology, highlighting its ability to enhance cultural experiences, provide insights, improve efficiency, increase profits, and simplify research. Conversely, it also addresses the destructive potential of technology, health issues related to sedentary lifestyles, privacy concerns, and the constant need for upgrades. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of balancing the benefits and drawbacks of technology in daily life.

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Pros and Cons of Technology

Since the beginning the time, humanity has used technology to


make life better in some way. Every discovery is a form of
technology. At one point, being able to create fire was cutting-edge
technology. We’ve come a long way in a relatively short time thanks
to the innovative ways we have used technology over the
generations.

PROS

What Are the Pros of Technology?

1. It allows us to experience new cultures.


Technology has allowed the planet to become a smaller place.
Over the course of a day, it is possible to travel to the other
side of the world to see new countries, new cultures, and new
opportunities. Even in previous generations, shipbuilding
technologies provided this same benefit. In the future,
spacefaring technology could be the next evolution of this
experience.
2. It provides us with deeper insights.
Technology collects massive amounts of data that can be
mined for numerous insights and benefits. These analytics
allow us to pinpoint specific weak points that can be turned
into strengths. It can identify new business opportunities,
create new learning opportunities, and help people discover
new facets about themselves so they can achieve more than
ever before.
3. It allows us to do more with less.
Imagine what a cutting-edge farm looked like in the early
1800’s. There was no mechanization. Everything was done by
horse or by hand. That limited the yield an area could produce.
Those yields, however, were still greater than what previous
generations could achieve if they didn’t even have equipment
to work with horsepower. Every time there is a technology
improvement, we are able to do more, in any industry, with
fewer resources being consumed.
4. It improves profits.
New technologies are always expensive, but that’s because
they create more profits. It is possible today, through
technology, for a sole proprietor to run a global business from
their garage or home office. New technologies have created
platforms where freelancers and independent professionals
can make more on their own than if they worked for at
traditional employer. Technology can even improve the
efficiency of delivery and distribution mechanisms, which can
also improve profits.

5. It makes research become simple.

For children born in the 1980s or before, there was a time


when finding information required a trip to the library or
owning an encyclopedia. Today, the technologies of the data
access makes it possible to find out anything at almost any
time. Want to know why your leg is hurting? Need to order
some food for dinner? Want to book a vacation? Can’t
remember the name of a movie, but you remember who
starred in it? Technology makes it easy to research, purchase,
or discover what we want or need every day.

CONS

What Are the Cons of Technology?

1. It can be powerfully destructive.

Technology can be “good” or “evil” based on how it is used.


Innovation has led to incredibly destructive, world-altering
weapons with atomic, nuclear, and hydrogen bombs. Hackers
can use the internet to steal personal information. In
September 2017, more than 143 million people were affected
by a single data breach at Equifax. If humanity were to ever
become extinct, there is a good chance that technology would
provide a needed assist.

2. It leads to health problems.


Many forms of technology, from computers to televisions to
automobiles, cause people to sit for a majority of their day. This
constant sitting could be just as dangerous to a person’s health as
smoking could be. Consistently using technology can lead to hand,
wrist, and forearm pain, lead to social isolation, and may even be a
contributing factor to the formation of depression-like symptoms.

3. It has created a lack of privacy.


If you want to find out a lot of personal information about
someone, the technology of the internet can serve your needs quite
effectively. A website like Dirt Search allows you to enter a phone
number, look up a business, or find a person using public records.
Crawlers can put all of your social media feeds onto one page for
someone to review everything you’ve ever posted. Then consider
cameras and CCTV in most public locations and it is possible to track
a person’s every movement online and in real life.
4. It creates the need to constantly upgrade.
Technology can create greater efficiencies, but it can also create the
needs to constantly upgrade and improve the technologies being
used. If there is 100% reliance on a specific technology and it stops
working, then nothing will get done.

The pros and cons of technology show us that we can have a better
life and be more productive, but only if we are aware of the
potential negatives and proactively work to contain them. There will
always be a good side and a bad side to technology. It is up to each
of us to find the good in it every day.

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