The Technology field is expanding and building up and as years pass by, new improvements, new inventions and new gadgets are coming out of the market. However, I think that people are overusing technology and it is affecting our lives. Moreover, I believe we are all becoming more and more dependent on technology and using it as a crutch instead as a tool, because of the shortcuts technology does for us and we tend to forget how we get there in the first place. For example, students in math classes depend too much on the calculator to solve basic arithmetic and forget how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide by hand. Students in English classes depend too much on word processors to check their spelling and grammar. I am also guilty of this, coming from a different country and learning English as a secondary language, I use this utility to correct my mistakes and because of it, I feel that my English has not improve that much. Drivers depend too much on GPS to locate and navigate to their destination. In an article written by Tom Vanderbilt, he mentioned one driver who was instructed to make a turn on a rail road and eventually crashing with a train coming in front of him (Vanderbilt). There are other numerous stories told about GPS navigation in the news, where drivers just kept obeying the “turn by turn” feature in their GPS without using their senses to determine what path they are heading, whether it is legal to do so or not, and eventually crashing shortly after, because they rely too much on the GPS and fail to read the signs ahead of them. Most of us store our data such as old pictures, memorable videos, touching audio and important documents in our electronic storage devices, and if this device gets lost or infected with a virus, we would feel helpless because all our hard work and projects are lost. We can all relate about how technology has affected our life and how our society relies desperately on these electronics. I believe that if we properly use these gadgets it can benefit us, but if we misuse it we would be affected negatively.
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Vanderbilt, Tom. “It Wasn’t Me, Officer! It Was My GPS.” Slate. N.p., 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2011. <http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2010/06/it_wasnt_me_officer_it_was_my_gps.html>.
