How Does Modern Technology Affect Our Lives

Technology can be considered one of the most important things in our lives if not if not the most important thing. We use technology in everything, science, medicine, engineering and many other fields. The robust impact of technology on our lives cannot be denied, we use technology in various ways and sometimes unconsciously we can end up harming the society we live in or our lives. Some people claim that technology helps us communicate in a very improved way. However, other support the idea that modern technology plays a big role in destroying jobs and that it can affect our creativity and decrease it. I believe that the latter is true.

Some may argue that modern technology has a big impact in communication and that it is beneficial for us. Modern technology provides us with text messaging services by creating mobile phone applications that allow us to chat with our friends anytime we want for free (Ramey, 2012). However, this claim is

Nowadays, we use technology in everything, and over-relying on technology can negatively affect our creativity and skills. Our brains are like muscles, if we rely on technology to do all of our thinking for us instead of using our cognitive skills, these skills will start to decay with the passage of time. For example, our spatial skills will progressively aggravate by using GPS to direct us everywhere we go, also depending on autocorrect and spell-check for typed communication will lead to the suffering of our spelling skills. Finally, technology negatively affects our creativity, without creativity we will not be able to problem-solve novel situations, we need creativity to find out the best course of action when we face a new problem. As a result of using our devices to make all of these decisions for us, our problem-solving skills start to fall apart. And due to all of the previous reasons, technology makes us less human and has an extremely significant impact on our creativity (Kuszweski,