An Ongoing Cycle

Technology affects how we do thing and how we see things, nothing is done by hand anymore. Everything is done by computers or machines. For example, making merchandise for certain stores, like clothing, back in the day it was hand made. Now they have sewing machines to do the labor for the workers. Due to technology advancement during the years, employers need a smaller amount of people, which means more people are out of work and receiving no income. Sometimes technology makes things easier for us, but then again it would take away job opportunities.


Another piece of technology that has kind of took over what people do manually are the phones, Ipads and tablets. Now, instead only using your phone to make calls or text message, people text message a whole lot more, they use their phone to listen to music, take videos, to play games, and now to even control their car when they're not around to do it manually with car keys. Some people don't go to the movies anymore; they rather stay in their house and watch movies off of Netflix. We depend so much on different type of technology that we've lost some psychical contact with people and how we interact with different things, like unlocking your car with your car key, which now people can do with their phones.

            Everything is changing. Some changes are for the better, and some for the worse. Technology makes things more accessible. But does it make us lazy? I think sometimes it does. An example would be a car. If i didn't want to walk to the store that's a block away from my house, I can just get in my car and drive. If I had to call my sister downstairs for dinner, but i didn't feel like walking upstairs, I can simply send her a text or I can call her. Technology is very useful, but then again, it kind of makes us lazy because we don't do the things by hand, instead most things we do is through a piece of technology. An example would be getting information. Instead of buying a newspaper, I can just go online and go to the Daily News website and read today's news, or I can go to weatherchannel.com to find out tomorrows weather. I mean even with simply just checking the weather online, it shows us how much we depend on technology. Everything is changing, we just have to know how to keep up.