Technology Surrounds Everyone

Since the beginning of the world, there has been
technology surrounding those individuals in that society. The first
societies developed fire and even an irrigation system to make sure all
of their crops were well watered and taken care of to make sure the
village was well fed. In the present, technology is everywhere. This
sudden burst of growth, in the technological sense, has skyrocketed
beyond belief in these past years. Before, people got along just fine
without cell phones, mp3 players, iPods, and personal computer.
Nowadays, take someone's cell phone away from them and they are lost.
Most people would agree that technology is an immense help, but
sometimes what is so useful and handy, hinders the society as a whole
in advancing communication with others around them.

With the
formation of E-mail, there has been a definite loss in hand written
letters as well as phone calls. Getting in contact with people on a
personal level is no more. The hand written letters to friends or
family has almost become extinct. What was once endeared and looked
forward to has become unappealing for the younger generation to take
the extra couple minutes to address the envelope. Typing a few
sentences and then clicking one's mouse a couple of times, takes a
minimum of a couple seconds. The sincerity of it all is lost.

When
wanting to get in contact with people, dropping an email has somehow
made its way to being an acceptable way to handle things, even though
it was thought at one point as being too impolite. Often time people
think that an email is a quicker way to respond or gain information
when really picking up a phone and dialing a number is easier and can
be faster.

This one example as left this world in a hold up. When
some of the younger generations come in contact with older ones, they
do not know how to communicate effectively and efficiently with each
other. There is a communication gap within society. Most of those
coming into high school can not even process speech to older
individuals and do not even know what a hand written letter is. There
is too much typing and computer processing being exposed and not enough
thought provoking tasks, like a good old fashioned note. Nothing is
personal and heart warming anymore. The words typed by a computer are
seen as hard and cold with no meaning behind them.

Everyone
whisked up in this whirlwind also is a speed demon. Most of the people
with these newer technologies, because they are so immediate in their
processing, are impatient and unruly. If something is not immediately
done, they start snapping and become irritable.

Many of these
technologies, like the personal computer or cell phone have also caused
a rise in ADD, or attention deficit disorder. Many of the children and
even adults have too much going on, that they can no longer focus on
one thing for a long amount of time.

Family time is also slipping
a way in many ways. The children are either on the computer, talking to
their friends or in their room listening to music and what not, off
their mp3 players. The parents are off doing their things that they
need to accomplish as well. That leaves the members of the family on
their own, with no human interaction. The days of the board games and
family get-togethers are almost non-existent.

There are, of
course, good things to this rise in technology. Information can be sent
quicker, one can file share pictures, etc., with family at a more rapid
pace. If a grandparent lives 600 miles away and their grandchild is
born they can immediately see the baby if they both have web cam,
unlike waiting for the mail for pictures and what not weeks later. That
is just a short example; there are, of course, millions more.

Yes,
there are good things that have come from the new wave of technological
advances; however, there is more harm being done. Families are seeing
less and less of each other and not spending any real, quality time
with one another. Personal connections are also almost eradicated from
the new culture. People are now, more than ever, impatient and want
everything done yesterday. Unfortunately, one must take the good with
the bad, however, sometimes the hindrances outweigh the advances.

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