Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Is technology makes us less human?



In 21st century, technology is not just everywhere around us, but is a need for human being to continue survive. With the advanced of the technology, human became less socialized. 
 
If we take a look back for 20years, when there is a world mobile phone still not famous, kids are playing chess, kids are running here and there, or even in the coffee shops, people are directly interaction with the face to face communication. 

Nowadays, people are now so-called the screenager, which means people are facing the screen (mobile screen/desktop screen) more often. Nowadays, children are no longer chasing here and there to gain fun. They are all now spending their time with the phone, pad, and those electronic devices. They are now also fall into the screenager categories.

While facing the screenager, people also described their feeling as “the furthest distance in the world is when I am aside you, but you do care your gadget/devices rather than me.”  

Yes, technology could affect relationship as well. Just imagine, when you are in a date, but your partner is busy with Facebook, WeChat, or Line. The lack of face to face communication is the disadvantages of the appearance of the technology. Never to deny, social network let us stayed contact with anyone in the world. However, words, emotion, or even the stickers could not let us share our real feeling. According to the research done by the LINE corporate in 2013, most of the people have no face emotion while they are sending the emotional stickers. 

Of course, technology is making human more comfortable in human lifestyle. Heavy, duty and dangerous works are now worked by technology. So, here comes the question. If everything is assigned to technology, to machine, then what else human still can do? Human would become lazier?

For now, human claimed that technology is now the best creation of human. Those programs which works in technology, seldom makes mistake and technology could perform better than the human brains now. There is a past experiment. To test either human could be more intelligent than the technology; the scientist assigned the best Chess player in the world to fight with the technology. The result showed that the best player could not defeat the computer but he draw with the computer. This is a surprise result. The scientist concluded that the technology in the world continues its development, but human brains are not. How if the technology in further are better than human?

Yes, never to deny, technology did help us a lots. Technology turns us to have an easier life. However, is that human are now already too dependent to the technology? Is the technology makes us less human? 

Below, is the analysis of the appearance of the technology of our group. 


Advantages:

Ø  Help people access more information and get it faster
Ø  Can increase the human communication
Ø  Can speed up the people work
Ø  Increase the world economic

Disadvantages:
Ø  Less value in human workers
Ø  Influence human healthy
Ø  Environment pollution
 

So, let’s think about it.

6 comments:

  1. If I have kids in the future, I will make sure that they have "real life" childhood more than "digital" childhood. "real life" childhood is fun I dont know why the parents want to let their kids to play the electronic devices instead of the rocks, cups, congkak and all that.

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    1. Wah, playing rocks, cups, congkak is another to be disappeared culture in future. Will you let your kids play congkak and restrict them to get in touch with any electronic devices in childhood? But I am pretty sure "real life" childhood is more meaningful than "digital childhood".

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    2. If I have my children in future, I will not totally ban her or him to use any digital devices but I will try to make my child interested in healthier activities. Gardening is a good idea I think

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    3. don't know why. i really do not like the digital devices so much.
      maybe for me these digital device really make us have the space between us.
      miss the game that we play in childhood.

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  2. i know right! soon the 'digital childhood' will replace our traditional childhood and become the tradition for new generation kids. Sad but true, evolution never stops

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    1. So sad to hear this, our tradition been replaced. No more Sinchan and Pokemon :(

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