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Surname 1 Technology and Its Effects on Human It is crucial to understand the relationship between technology and the human brain in the society. People in earlier days utilized their minds to think of creative ways of solving day-to-day societal problems. Individuals have been relying solely on their minds for many years. Great scientist such as Galileo only used their powerful minds to build complex scientific instruments. In order to be tech-savvy, people need to use the common devices such as phones, computers to benefit themselves. They also depend on technology in every single day of their life. According to Jackson (40), Steven Spielberg, an American director says, “Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives.” The ability to sustain our thought process has been lost as nearly everyone has a primary concern of engaging with their cellphones in order to check current matters that are happening in the world. Technology takes our normal life that the older generation used to have and the social connection they had towards each other. Technology has caused some social problems as well as affected people's health such as poor eyesight from starring a computer for long hours and back. Staring at computers for long hours makes the eyes to strain and therefore people become more sensitive to light (Mashalla 34). As technology advances, it tends to control more of our lives than it has ever been seen before. Today it does not really matter where we live whether in a noisy urban street or a wealthy suburb. If you own a screen once, you start using it you are instantly transported to the same place that everybody in the world is transported to every day (Turner18).This is the place that the mind enters after staring at the screen when the brain basically stops thinking. The Use of technology is therefore slowly taking away the nature of what it means to be human both socially and psychologically which leads to health problems. Surname 2 Despite the benefits that result from technology, the disadvantages are also huge and it effecting human. Addiction is something that no one wishes to have and each person should fight to control his or her phone and internet usage. According to Turel et al. (12), “Use of technology simplifies tasks influencing people to develop a dependent behavior on it.” People hardly leave their phones and that poses a challenge to deal with phone addiction that has become a major concern which might escalate to uncontrollable levels in the future. Despite the fact that a phone is an essential tool that should be used to ease our communication, people hardly used it primarily to bridge that gap but to connect to internet and view other stuff such as Instagram and Facebook. The society is slowly losing good social skills as being addicted to a phone and internet encourages many to develop anti-social behavior that result in people spending less time with friends. Many use phones in the wrong places such during a lecture or during a work presentation and this highly distracts people. Moreover, the usage of internet continuously without using complementary materials only makes the users to be narrow-minded and therefore it does not improve one’s thinking capacity. People’s conceptual ability is slowly deteriorating as many people have forsaken the traditional methods of writing books and reading as this required commitment and grater time investment plus; online writing reduces creativity and introduces plagiarism (Ison 13).The internet has made tasks such as publishing to be easy and this one of the reasons why people find it more inviting as opposed to traditional methods. Therefore, using sources of information from the internet that are not beneficial to them such as blogs and much more. Additionally, online books makes skills in traditional writing to be lost since the internet simplifies research. People have lost the keenness of writing reducing the quality of information provided in platforms such as blogs. Due to heavy reliance on these new methods of learning, people no longer contain the Surname 3 higher retention capacity of information as people before used to be using traditional methods of study. The use of computers and the internet is quickly killing our normal social behavior. According to Alexander (34), “The old fashioned way of discussing issues over a cup of coffee to abandon solitude with other caffeine addicts has been replaced with sitting behind a computer.” The advent of Social Media it was impossible to meet all the people that you know in town, however, everybody you know is virtually close to you. We can no longer miss people since it is possible to interact with any person at every single day. The psychological feeling of missing people has been removed as people no longer find meet ups, reunion, family gatherings as significant. The Internet has completely changed communication within a very short period of time. Less than two decades ago you had to write a letter to communicate with friends, family or colleagues. Today however people are just fingertips away, if you skipped an episode of a show in the past you would only have to wait for reruns. The internet has however changed this completely. This aspect is destroying family relationships; for example, teenagers nowadays lock themselves in their rooms chatting with their friends online while parents are in the study busy working on their computers. Finding quality time for the family today is becoming harder by the minute. People today carry their work home and continue working from home online. That is why many families today have weak family connection or relationships especially between the children and their parents. Parents today are raising kids that they know very little about, once these kids start showing characters like petty theft or getting involved in drugs, they get surprised yet they did not spend time with them. Surname 4 Individuals’ normal lives of visiting shopping malls, banking, and visiting offices are being assimilated to the virtual internet world. The increasing popularity of online shopping, internet banking, technical supports, and online tax payment is reducing the interaction in the real word and increasing the time that people spend online instead. These advancements are turning everything into computer peripherals connected to a large computing network including ourselves. (Meuter 55) The news today is no longer about humanity but rather more about new products. Almost every TV commercial or internet ad is about encouraging people to buy the newest gadget in the market or upgrade premium offer. Every single aspect of human culture today encourages them to improve the digital connectedness by constantly reminding them how important technological advancement is. This continuous contact with the world is taking away the “me time” that many people before had. The impact of such a move is that other people will have more power to influence their own opinion and ideologies. The impact of this move is an increasingly growing on the global culture and beliefs that many people today are a part of. Global diversity is the wealth of humanity that should be kept; various cultures make the world an interesting place of varying heritages the global culture as built by the internet threatens this diversity (Ferguson 25). In the year 2008, a mere 16% of the population was hyper-connected to the internet (Ferguson 17). Today, however, this percentage has grown to hit an unbelievable 40% of US citizens. Today human lives have shifted from the normal real environment to living in their heads. As Sigel describes it, human beings today live more in their heads as compared to any other time in history to such extents that for some people, in fact, the only reality that exists for them is now only inside their heads. The human society today is becoming a workaholic society with schedules filled to the brim, which has been made possible with the hyper-connectedness; Surname 5 so that people can work even when they are on the move. People today have developed an attitude where they have minimal time to participate in other extracurricular activities such hobbies especially physically intensive activities. However, People spend more three to four hours sitting behind a computer even when they are sitting at the office, sitting in traffic and when they finally get home in the evening. The setting has greatly cut down available time for the physical exercises, which poses the risk of developing lifestyle diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Technology has also to a great extent killed our curiosity, thrill, sense of wonder or awe. Today great brilliance is greatly taken for granted hence elements of intelligence and creativity has been completely reduced to nothing. It is hard to find people even taking a second look at brilliant works of art such as painting after being continuously exposed to thousands of computer generated images. This trend is dangerous since it takes away the questions that we should be asking about how things happen. That curiosity is what has enabled many scientists to come up with breakthrough inventions in the past. The risk of reduced curiosity to future discoveries and invention disappearing is a clear threat posed by the use of technology. The use of technology has also made it easy to do everything we no longer put much effort in coming up with anything due to the increased automation made possible with the use technology. The extent at which the internet has also affected creativity is great. Let us just get realistic how many people download movies today using Torrent without having to pay a dime or getting permission from the owners of the movies. It is also clear that no matter the number of laws placed to guard against theft of intellectual property it seems like people still finds ways to do it. This trend has been made possible and encouraged with the internet. Human nature dictates that we put energy and effort to find a solution only where none Surname 6 already exists. The Internet therefore encourages many people to become lazy and copy other people’s intellectual property instead of coming up with their own new content negatively impacting on creativity. The internet has enabled producers to access a wider market for their intellectual property but at the same time, stealing of original ideas has become rampant (Bessen et al. 12). Audience reach is indeed achieved using the internet but what is the use of a very wide reach with no returns. Piracy and plagiarism have always been considered the worst enemies to creativity especially on the part of the readers or viewers. Many people, however, forget that the problem actually affects the creativity of its producers the worst. Individuals who have developed creative content do so expect a good return from it. Piracy and plagiarism, however, rob them of this income discouraging them from participating in the creative process ever again or doing their best. The health problems resulting from technology are numerous as well as chronic. For instance, the light from the computer normally results in total blindness for extreme case. Additionally, the sitting posture used especially using laptops causes serious back problems and could lead to injuries in the spinal cord, which can result in paralysis. The light from the computer also causes headaches as well as migraines in extreme cases. Using computers for long periods without exercise results in arthritis as well as obesity. Therefore, use of computers should always be moderated to eliminate the negative effects. From the above facts, it is, therefore, clear that despite the highly popularized use of technology there exists a completely different side of the same story. Use of technology has been seen to lead to addiction making it hard to do without technology. Some people also argue that the use of the technology especially to get information makes the human race dumber. Social media and mobile phone have eradicated the previous aspect of loneliness it is possible to be Surname 7 physically in solitude but not lonely at all. This is, therefore, killing the normal human social behavior where people tend to where traditional people meet physically. Further, the use of internet has encouraged plagiarism and piracy robbing producers of these types of intellectual property of their due credit or revenue in terms of cash. Additionally, use of computers results in very chronic lifestyle diseases. Surname 8 Works Cited Alexander, Jeffrey C. The meanings of social life: A cultural sociology. Oxford University Press, 2003. Bessen, James, and Eric Maskin. "Intellectual Property on the Internet: What's Wrong with Conventional Wisdom?." Cambridge, Mass.: photocopied(1997). Ferguson, Christopher John. "The good, the bad and the ugly: A meta-analytic review of positive and negative effects of violent video games." Psychiatric Quarterly 78.4 (2007): 309316. Ison, David C. "Does the online environment promote plagiarism? A comparative study of dissertations from brick-and-mortar versus online institutions." Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 10.2 (2014): 272. Jackson, Kathi. Steven Spielberg: a biography. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.rer Mashalla, Y. J. "Impact of computer technology on health: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)." Medical Practice and Reviews 5.3 (2014): 20-30. Meuter, Matthew L., et al. "Self-service technologies: understanding customer satisfaction with technology-based service encounters." Journal of marketing 64.3 (2000): 50-64. Turel, Ofir, Alexander Serenko, and Paul Giles. "Integrating technology addiction and use: an empirical investigation of online auction users." MIS quarterly 35.4 (2011): 1043-1062. Turner, Phil, and Susan Turner. "Place, sense of place, and presence." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 15.2 (2006): 204-217.
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Technology and Its Effects on Human
It stands crucial to understand the relationship between technology and the human brain
in the society. Ancient folks poked into their minds for creative ways of solving day-to-day
societal phenomenon. Individuals have been relying solely on their minds for many years. Great
scientist such as Galileo used their creativity extents to build complex scientific instruments. In
order to be tech-savvy, our generation needs to merge more of their brain activity with the use of
common devices such as palmtops and laptops to nourish their understanding. In recent years
technology has turned into somewhat a ‘basic need’. According to Jackson (40), Steven
Spielberg, an American director says, “Technology can be our best friend, and technology can
also be the biggest party pooper of our lives.” The ability to sustain our thought process has been
interfered with. Nearly everyone has a primary concern of engaging with their cellphones for indepth know-how.
Technology blew off our unprogressive problem solving techniques passed to us by our
primogenitors. However, it is to be noted that, it has not prevailed in all life aspects. For instance,
it has incurred some social and mental human disorders, i.e. poor eyesight from ogling at a
computer for long hours and back pains. Staring at computers for long hours strains the eye in
turn increasing ones’ light sensitivity (Mashalla 34). As technology advances, it tends to control
more of our lives in the course. Today, regardless of where we reside, once in contact with any
technological device, it tends to take control over our lives. It makes the globe seem to be a small
village in which all humanity appears fitting in it. It does not really matter where we live whether
in a noisy urban street or a wealthy suburb. If you own a screen, once you start gazing at it, you
are instantly transported to the same place that everybody in the world is transported to every day
(Turner18).This is the place that the mind enters after staring at the screen when the brain

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basically stops thinking. The use of technology is therefore slowly taking away the nature of
what it means to be human both socially and psychologically which leads to health problems.
Despite the benefits that result from technology, disadvantages also seem to showcase.
Addiction is one of the serious pandemics brought about by technology, especially the internet
addiction. According to Turel et al. (12), “Use of technology simplifies tasks influencing people
to develop a dependent behavior on it.” People hardly leave their phones and that poses a
challenge to deal with phone addiction that has become a major concern which might escalate to
uncontrollable levels in the future. Despite the fact that a phone is an essential tool that should be
used to ease our communication, people hardly used it primarily to bridge that gap but to connect
to internet and view other stuff such as Inst...


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