Technology's Negatively Affecting Our Lives

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Technology can affect people widley around the world of all ages, both positively and unfortunately, negatively. Firstly, it is factual that technology has helped us to advance in society in things like making our countries safer and our lives easier, but they also have negatively affected our lives. Young adults are most likely to stay indoors and play on their mobile devices than go outdoors to places like the park. If you take a glace around, at least one person will have a pair of earbuds shoved into their ears or their faces stuck on their phones. But with all of this said, there are technolgies out there were they help to better the world not drain the life out of people and society.

Forward advances in technology have provided us things such as smart cars, machinery, and other chattels that are made to device performing work. Withal, they also bring up things such as hackers, identity theft, cyber stalking, and much more of other threatening things like …show more content…

It seems to be slowly taking over the world, and it is found everywhere around you. How you use technology is important. Nowadays, the government wants to take over technology in military warfare, but then others like doctors and scientist want to use to devise ways to save and improve humanity. This is evidently found in source #1 where it states, "But there are potential dangers, too. Laser-guided bombs and missiles already exist. The military wants to make laser “guns” that can blind and shoot enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Right now, the benefits of lasers vastly outweigh any of its existing or potential dangers. It is up to the scientists and citizens of the future to keep this “light fantastic” from becoming a fatal instrument of destruction." It is designed and programmed to make our lives easier, but should never be in place of physical exercise, socializing with one another real human beings, and especially not your

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