Technology

LIVING WITH TECHNOLOGY (OR WITHOUT IT : The growing human dependence on technology

Technology has done a lot for human beings . Without the development in technology it is possible that the pyramids would never have been built and neither would we be able to communicate with each other from remote places all over the world . Some say that these technological advances such as the internet and cellular phones are a boon on society and humankind yet there are also those detractors who say that it is has not simplified life in so much

as it has complicated matters

It is hard to imagine life without email nowadays . The only efficient means of communication , with efficient meaning that the message is delivered within seconds , is either through the cellular phone or through email via the internet (Luke 5 . It is even more impossible to imagine how people could work under circumstances that denied them access to the latest communication technologies or even technology at all

Yet somehow , there was really a time when people where not at the beck and call of their cellular phones and a time when nobody really felt the urge to keep checking the mailbox every five minutes for fear of missing an email . There was a time when people actually drove to the store or entered a store and talked with the attendants before buying something (Goldman 3 . ing shoes and bags or other electronic items was done by going to a shop and not by going...