The Nature Of Technology

Due to the rapid development impact of modern technology, many people feel that nature is in danger of becoming extinct. As long as there have been people in this world, there has been technology. Indeed, the techniques of shaping tools are taken as the chief evidence of the beginning of human culture. In today's world, technology is a complex social enterprise that includes not only research, design, and crafts but also finance, manufacturing, management, labor, marketing, and maintenance. Technology and human always be together.In the broadest sense, technology extends our abilities to change the world: to cut, shape, or put together materials; to move things from one place to another; to reach farther with our hands, voices, and senses. We use technology to try to change the world to suit us better. The nature of technology is required for scientific literacy and emphasizes ways of thinking about technology that can contribute to using it wisely.




The ideas are sorted into three sections: the connection of science and technology, the principles of technology itself, and the connection of technology and society.

Have we become slaves of technology?

Do you remember what life was like before answering machines, faxes and cell phones? It was simpler. I remember having only one phone in the house for a family of six. Still, it hasn't been so many years since most of us had just one phone in the house.

In those days, if somebody called you and you weren't home, they called back and hoped to get you later. If you happened to be on the phone they got a busy signal and still had to call you back when the line was free. They were responsible for getting to you and delivering news or messages important to them.

Now we have the internet and email and people expect instant responses when sending email. No matter that you aren't sitting in front of your computer 24 hours a day just waiting for their email in. 

It's all gotten out of hand and we are becoming slaves to technology more every day. Not only is technology changing our world at an unprecedented rate, we are struggling to keep up. We have access to more information than we could possibly need. We can send messages across the globe and "talk" to people on the other side of the world. We are running a technology race and we're going to lose if we continue to run it. There is a way to win, though. It requires some major shifts on your part and I guarantee it's worth it.

Answer these questions:

1. Do you think that you are a slave to technology?

2. Do you check your email first thing in the morning before anything else?

3. Is the answering machine your first destination when you come into the house from being out?

4. When the phone rings, do you run to answer it? Do you feel guilty if you don't?

5. When you're home and in the middle of a conversation, a task or a meal and the phone rings, do you stop to listen to the message instead of just letting the machine do it's job?

6. Do you feel compelled to answer emails and return calls as soon as you get them?

7. Do you carry a beeper and jump to respond to each message?

8. Do you talk on a cell phone when you're having lunch with somebody else (or in your car or when you have any kind of non-committed time)?

9. Do you have call-waiting and interrupt telephone conversations to check who else might be calling you?

10. Do you feel totally overwhelmed by the volume of calls and emails you think you have to return to people?

If you are being honest, most of you will answer yes to at least three of these questions. Even one "yes" is a red flag, though, and means you are a slave to technology to some degree. It's not a right or wrong. It's a trap you've fallen into and it's time to get out. Wouldn't you rather shed all that and take back control of your life?

  

Chains Of Technology

Cell phones, smart phones, ipods, computer, laptops, play stations, PDA’s, the list goes on and on when discussing today’s popular technological “toys”.With the culmination of a sharp increase in information technology products, the usability of these products for businesses, and a generation whose adolescence was filled with these gadgets now entering the workforce, we are becoming more and more of a “plugged in” culture Chains Of Technology.

Everyone has cell phones, one for work and one personal phone. Cell phones have the ability now to allow its owner to access their email, surf the internet, play music, manage a calendar, text messages, and of course talk to anyone. Well, I don’t know about everything, but I do feel there are chains attached to some of the conveniences we enjoy from new technological tools. 

Since the information technology boom, creating virtual realities has become a competition within the industry. For video games the more real the better. Colleges can now teach in virtual classrooms. The list of virtual capabilities is growing at an amazing rate. According to dictionary.com, an online dictionary, one of the definitions for the word ‘virtual’ includes “temporarily simulated or extended by computer software”. This website also shows the American Heritage Dictionary definition which includes “Computer Science Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network” (“Virtual”). For this reason, when I discuss virtual solitude, I am focusing on a solitude that is not real, but instead created by some sort of computer software or technological tool. One representation of this virtual solitude is the individual on the cell phone…you know the one…they are yelling about something you want to know nothing about, in front of you at the grocery store. As your eyes dart all over the store searching for anything to focus on besides them and their personal issue, you wonder…why do they think they can’t be heard? Where does that phone, and their mind, take them that is so private? Of course, in reality, they are not even close to being alone. Most likely, if they were conducting the conversation face-to-face with the person in public, they would lower their voice and lean into the person’s ear, so as to not share the subject of the conversation. Yet, something about that gadget they hold to their ear denies them the ability to remember they are surrounded by strangers.

We also become dishonest with ourselves in regards to solitude. We say we are “alone” when instead we are only distracting ourselves through technology such as music, TV, or computers.

Technologies Around Us

Technology is all around us and it's tough to keep on on the most recent and greatest.It used to be said this population always lagged behind the rest in technology, but things have changed and this appears to now be an idea of the past. Today they are much more likely than the overall population to use wireless services like text messaging, customized ringtones, and other wireless devices. Nowadays people are really helped with some gadgets that they have, whether it is to communicate, to give them some entertainment or even to help them with their job. All of those things really prove that technology give good effect in our daily life. Even though there are several people who use technology for crime but we still get many benefits from it.

With technology, we are able to get many benefits in the matter of communication, business, health and many others. We have to use what the technology offer us for good thing, not for crime.