How does Technology affect our society?

What is Technology? It is nothing but the advancement or applications of what we have now to make things easier and better. It has pros and cons and the level of technology can be briefly studied in education, communication, knowledge and obviously the quality of life. Conversely, technology doesn’t just improve the quality of life but also makes people more sluggish.

Technology made education system highly sophisticated. By improvising the infrastructure which embodies better laboratory facilities and equipments, use of projectors for teaching made it easier and more practical. Proper education ultimately results in the talented future professionals. It also helped in better communication all around the world. Use of cell phones with applications such as viber, whatsapp can connect you to anyone on the earth. But, one should know the ambit of using them in proper way. An app called Life360 shows how technology has been developed. Once you share this with your family, they will know you wherever you go with the help of navigation and you will be able to send danger alert to them if you are in trouble. Thus, technology also gives safety to people from kidnapping, murder and rape that are being very common now in the society.

Technology gives knowledge and awareness what is going on around by so called Internet. Through internet, one can know what is happening in the world, knowledge can be gained and shared and what not, you find everything. But, remember, this can also show adverse effects when you misuse it. Criminal cases have been increasing now and then everywhere. People with criminal mind can be tested using Neurocriminology which looks for the difference in prefrontal cortex of brain from that of normal people. Technology is now providing various medicinal drugs to prevent the crime thoughts from a criminal thereby reducing the crime rates.However, on the other hand, Technology has got disadvantages too. Using technology, wars between countries are now using Bio weapons and Nuclear weapons. Additionally, hacking confidential data can be seen many a times to misuse the information.
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Therefore, Technology has advantages as well as disadvantages. Miracles can be made in the near future when one knows the fine line between the right and wrong and when one is discern of minimum ethics.