Our Rise and Downfall

    Technology. Some people say it has led to our downfall as the human race. Others may think it's the boon of the world. I say it's both. I say its led to the our downfall mainly because we use technology for the wrong things. Though without technology, we wouldn't have medicine or many of the luxuries we have right now.

We try to make day-to-day actions too easy. We try to make it where we don't have to put in as much effort into our actions while still trying to get the same results. For example: social networks like Facebook and Twitter make it to where we chat online with multitudes of people instead of actually going out into the real world an conversing with people face to face. My very class does most of its daily activities on computers and internet. The only bad thing about education and computers is, if we do too much, we become more reliant on it. If something were to go wrong and we went without computers, my class wouldn't have much to do because basically everything we do is on computers (or a good chunk of it anyway).

Despite all the ways technology is abused, without it, our mass media would still consist of newspapers and messengers if it wasn't for the invention of television, internet, and cameras. We wouldn't have any of the medical treatments like prescription drugs, surgeries, or antibiotics.

I could go down entire lists of the ways technology has affected society, but that would take too much room. Technology is great like any other luxury, but it can be dangerous if it is abused by its user, much like in the way people drink alcohol or gamble.