Is technology changing us for the better or worse?

This essay explains how technology is changing us for the better. The three main components of this essay are to make knowledge accessible, how technology helps people accomplish tasks more efficiently, and how technology helps people communicate with each other around the world. This essay will tell the reader lots of information about technology, like what it can do for us, how to use it, and why I think technology is changing us for the better.

How does technology make knowledge more accessible to everyone?

Technology makes learning and knowledge more accessible because it helps make a more inclusive society that benefits everyone. Accessible information can help people understand and interact with knowledge online. Having accessible knowledge also benefits people with disabilities. Using technology, you gain access to a much wider range of information and since so many people around the world have and use technology almost everyone can access it. Technology can be accessed through the Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and much more.

How does technology help us accomplish tasks easier and more efficiently?

Technology can make tasks easier because devices are portable, faster, and can make things fun. Technology can help people be much more productive depending on how you use it and what tools you use. Technology can help us with transportation like trains and cars, easily accessed information, time-saving, and much more. Education-wise, technology helps pass on information and knowledge to students using it, making it more efficient than using the old outdated textbooks. Using these methods it is easier for students to learn. Another task or thing that technology helped people with is business and online marketing. Business and online marketing were created when technology had become a thing. Online marketing helped a lot of businesses because before technology was a thing they had to sell their products physically. But now almost everything is online making it a lot easier and more accessible for other people to access.

How does technology allow us to communicate with people around the world?

Technology helps us communicate with people around the world because there are language barriers. A language barrier is someone that speaks another language. With technology, you can use translation apps like skype to help you understand them. While using technology people don’t have to be face to face to communicate either. By using technology online people can spread awareness of social issues as well. For example, the news is a live channel telling everyone about problems around the world, weather, and general information that would be good to know. Another type of communication for spreading awareness is social media. Social media can be many kinds of apps like Snapchat, Discord, Facebook, and Instagram. With these apps, everyone around the world can communicate with each other.

Conclusion

People think that technology is making our society worse because technology can become addicting while affecting our communication skills. Another downside to being on technology too much is you could experience ramifications that will affect your eyesight and mood. Technology can cause lack of sleep, ADHD, cyberbullying, and a lot of other bad consequences. The point is that technology makes people lazier, less social, and go through a lot of emotions. People would also have to pay to keep the wifi for technology to keep working, but with books and the old school type of stuff, you wouldn’t need to spend anything.

Overall the point is that without technology our lives and societies would be much different than they are now. We wouldn’t have phones, computers, or even wifi. People wouldn’t be able to contact each other, not all students would be able to access the same information or learning experience, and many things would be harder to accomplish and less efficient. That is the reason I think technology has changed us for the better. Thank you for listening to my speech and I hope you enjoyed it!

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