My Physics essay :D

Today, we must adapt ourselves to an environment that is different from what human race had evolved in... An environment of technology. This is the future, the 21st century, it is where you can send a mail, talk to your friends even order your groceries and do shopping all at the comfort of your home. Technology had made our world small, it made talking to someone from a different continent a whole lot easier, and technology even lets you look at the world from a satellite’s view! Who would have guessed that from snail mailing, here is now E-mail, faster, easier and with less effort, to it you could even attach pictures, and music. Who would have guessed that instead of the months or even years of traveling using a ship, come only a number of hours of flying via airplanes. Who would have guessed that technology had made its own world… an intangible world called the Internet.

Advances in technology are truly overwhelming when you think about it, but a question often rang is “is technology good or bad?”

There are always two sides of everything, the black and the white. Often debated are the two sides of technology. Clearly, technology had made our lives easier and comfortable. Without technology, cure for deadly diseases wouldn’t have been discovered, easier communication wouldn’t have emerged and we wouldn’t be as educated as well. What we are embracing now is human development in action; to do away with this, is like denying our humanity, we are human beings, we are made with intellect, and we are made to prosper.

Then now, what is really the problem? The problem is that we use it and then we abuse it. A person could sit in his comfy couch, watching TV, or surfing the internet all day… and with all the things accessible to him via his laptop (he could shop, mail and even take his college classes) he would never have to leave his house, and soon grow obese, but thanks to technology, an easier solution materialized, he could have liposuction. Using this scenario, it is clear to us how a person could abuse technology. This is obviously not a good thing, since all things that are too much is bad.

Ironic it may seem, but we have to face the fact that good and bad always co-exist. There wouldn’t be good if there wasn’t bad, and vice versa. That is why there is no clear answer to such questions like “Is technology good or bad?”. For the effects of technology depend on the one who uses it, no doubt that technology brought us to a life that is comfortable and beneficial. What makes technology bad is the people who abuse it, because some tend to become over dependent to computers and advanced appliances, and addicted to T.V. and online or Nitendo games. We just have to learn to balance and learn how to use these overwhelming breakthroughs that surrounds us today.