TECHNOLOGY
Technology is no more than a dot of pigmentation that represents our modern life. The new era of the relationship
between humans and technology brings us the situation of transhipping from our sleep to waking
moment.Technology's impact can undermine our agency, making us subject to unthinking choices,
algorithmic bias, and giving up privacy. The awareness that technology can be controlled
enables ethical design, appropriate use and chance for improvement. If we recognize the control
that technology offers, then we can learn to become better informed consumers, lobby for
ethical practice and thereby determine the direction technology takes in service of humanity. If
we accept and address these problems we will be in a better position to make informed decisions
and play a part in a more sustainable future. Technology controlled us; therefore we need to be
alert and know the negative impacts of technology to us.
Technology controlling us now and we're becoming too dependent on technology, and we're
losing real-life interactions. Although there are positive aspects of technology, the negative ones
are much worse. Social media encourages us to be obsessed with appearances and to appreciate
what we already have. Although it is comfortable and good, its expanding power has begun to
control us with greater and greater harm than good. What occurs if you misplace or inadvertently
leave your phone at home? As your anxiety level rises, you either spend hours looking for your
phone or return home to retrieve it Tara D., & Arturo P. (2022) Why? since we are unable to function
without our phones these days. You rely on your phone to get out of traffic, do your online
banking, receive meeting reminders, order groceries and lunch, follow your diet and fitness
goals, read books, listen to podcasts, and shop. It's essential because you do everything on it.
Have you considered putting your phone away for a bit? It's more difficult than you may imagine.
You are set up to read the news, spy on your friends on Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat. This
reliance on technology has also resulted to some undesirable behaviors. We cannot go out to eat
and socialize with others if we are distracted by our devices. There are many times when you
look across at a table of people eating out and instead of conversing to one another, they are
interacting with their phones. Everyone appears to be immersed in their own virtual world while
commuting by subway or bus, rather than making small talk. Improved our Communication, with
technology, the world is a village. With the advancement of social media that we use and
messaging applications, we can now talk with friends, relatives, and coworkers in real time, no
matter where they are, Hoffman and Roslansk (2023). Also we can access to information, The
Internet allows you to search for and access information on practically any subject. Furthermore,
technology has made it possible for individuals to access learning and training from anywhere.
Medical progress, physicians and scientists have made significant contributions to morbidity
treatment and prevention through technological applications. Sometimes, we didn’t if we are
controlling by technology or we are already controlled by that. Technology has enabled medical
professionals to collect information about patients and engage with others in the health care
field, thereby improving patient care. Although this technology can make our life better, its
uncontrolled progression has made the world where considerations for ethics have been taken as
granted, making a situation that technology dominates our lives instead of our masters and
requires the relation with them to be reviewed. Now news and programming are available in any
language(s) and anywhere (we mean every country) in the world. Personal communication is also
facilitated as each person has access to a cell phone and a personal computer and an email,
which they can use at any moment. Technological has transformed not only the world picture
over global affairs, media, and communication, but also the common daily life. Through the use
of cell phones, computers, and emailing, individuals may carry out a range of tasks from a
distance, such as banking, scheduling, shopping, playing the lottery, and studying. This
unprecedented versatility has enabled us to perform tasks at any time of day.
The different technology have negative impact to people when they over use it. Isolation,
Participants were a nationally representative sample of 1,787 U.S. adults aged 19–32 years. They were recruited in
October–November 2014 for a cross-sectional survey using a sampling frame that represented 97% of the U.S.
population. SMU was assessed using both time and frequency associated with use of 11 social media platforms,
including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Vine, Snapchat, and Reddit. PSI
was measured using the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System scale. In 2015, ordered logistic
regression was used to assess associations between SMU and SI while controlling for eight covariates .
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