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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Technology to us

As I mentioned in my previous posts, technology plays an important role in our lives. Look around you and almost everything you see is technology. Technology has served us for a long time. It is difficult to live without it. Due to technology, we have lost some of the abilities, skills and traditions that the people in the past have. Take away mobile phones, telephones, internet, and any other communication devices, the people will have difficultly to communicate with others. Writing a letter may a way to communicate with others, but how many of them have actually wrote one before? Removing vehicles, ships, airplanes will lead to people having difficulties to travel from one place to another. They will definitely not ride a horse or camel.

So Man has been relying on technology and this will no doubt lead to over-reliance on technology. It has been asked whether Man has become the servant and technology the master instead of the other way around. From the above examples, it already shows the power and influence of technology over us. An example that clearly shows this relationship between Man and technology would be the Taiwan earthquake at the end of last year which damaged several undersea cables, disrupting telecommunication services in various parts of Asia which also lead to the disruption of internet services. Financial transactions, particularly in the foreign exchange market were seriously affected. Businesses were also affected. This shows that technology has a great influenced on the world. We are too reliant on technology. Thus a slight change or absent of technology will affect us greatly.

I feel that technology is meant for Man to rely on. So it is expected that such a thing will occur. As long as technology is within our control and not take over our lives, it is fine to rely on technology.

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