Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology

Can you pick out any of your daily routine activity that does not involve technology? Yes, it is hard to find any! Wherever you look or whatever you want to do requires the involvement of technology via any means. Whether it is household, office or field work, you need to take help of the modern accessories like in past, people used to wash dishes by hand but now there are dish washing machines available. Similarly fast speed computers and machineries have made the work really easy and efficient too. Now the machines can complete the work in just few seconds that may require a whole day to complete if done manually by a person. No doubt, technology is a blessing for all of us but every invention has some disadvantages too along with its advantages. Here in this article we will briefly discuss how technology has affected our lives in both directions positively and negatively! We will first throw light on some of the vast advantages of technology.

Advantages

The best thing that information technology has gifted us is the Globalization. In past nobody could ever think about working with the teams in the other part of the world but now the whole world has come closer. It is too easy to interact with any person via an internet or phone, residing in any part of the world. The distance and language is no more a barrier for us. Secondly, now with the technology we can manage our time in a better way like IT based working environments allows the organization to work for 24x7 as the global team is working on the projects.

The economy is down all over the world and in such conditions freelance jobs helps the people of underdeveloped countries. The companies of well developed countries hire employees from the countries where labor cost is low. Thus it benefits both the parties and they can easy deal via means of an internet.

Disadvantages

Now let us look at the other side of the picture; the disadvantages of technology. In my point of view the main disadvantage of technology is that it has made us dependent on it. We are unable to do any work without the help of technology! Secondly our health has been affected a lot because of the modern technology because the physical work is almost out of our lives now. We work only by using machines or sitting in front of our systems.

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