Friday, May 29, 2009

Technology: The Gift & Curse

Technology has improved dramatically over the past few decades and has helped humans achieved development significantly.

The Gift of technology is that it relieve us of rough work and provide comfort in our lives. In my mind engineers' job is to make people lazier and more dependent on automation. It also produced high-definition games which awed many around the world. High-speed internet enables us to access information with a click of the mouse.

The Curse of technology is that when something goes wrong, we humans tend to be very impatient and often gets frustrated when things are slow as they expected everything to be instantaneous. A very good example is the problem of gaming.

Youths nowadays are too engrossed with gaming and can easily go up to 6 hours marathon. When they lose a match in the game they will curse loudly and making a mountain out of a molehill. I have a sibling like this who always curse when he loses a match in DOTA. I am irritated as i cannot concentrate on my studies.

Its a sad issue in my mind.

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