However, our dependence on technology has, undeniably affected creativity and communication. It can be a boon or a bane depending on how one uses it. One can’t deny that with the mushrooming of technology, people are getting less interactive. Look around you. Do you see strangers interacting with each other?
Words being “just words” has often been the acceptable excuse for offensive remarks and public displays of extravagantly preposterous behavior. But the proponents of this way of thinking, of course, don’t think what effects these words have on the people they choose victimize. With the word evolving to become a better place in terms of technological advancements, the people whom are able to use these technologies too broadens; and not every person withholds the same intentions as the next. There are the people who wish to use the internet, arguably the most important platform of today’s world, for good, and others on the opposite end of that spectrum. And just like Tom wishes to take advantage of Jerry in the famous cartoon, so does these ill-intentioned people.
To what extent does the internet foster an environment of misleading/false advertising and illegal scams? Internet scam is one of the most common types of scams. The internet allows easy manipulation, creating fake websites and advertisements which fools unknowing victims into giving up their personal information and money, all the while behind the safety of their screen. However, even though it is so, the majority of the internet still consists of scam-free, safe and legitimate websites. The internet is a perfect place for scams to thrive.
Today, our communication is really depends on smartphones while they changed the way of communication. In addition to communication, smartphones are really entertaining and they are beneficial in studies or in researches too. Although smartphones are necessity in our lives, they have some negative effects on us too. First of all, invention of cell phones revolutionize the communication and smartphones take a step further. Instead of using letters or using telegraph, now, we can speak with our friends or our family without any efforts with smartphones.
Addiction to technology can cause it to become a “dangerous master” (Lange). Once people are addicted to their technology, it seems like the devices control their usage and they always feel the need to be using them. Technology addiction is defined “as a psychological state of maladaptive dependency on the use of a technology” (Turel et al.). Symptoms of this addiction include salience, withdrawal, conflict, relapse and reinstatement, tolerance, and mood modification. Addiction can strengthen “perceptions of enjoyment, usefulness, and ease of use to the technology, which in turn influence usage intentions” (Turel et el.).
Smartphone Technology Technology holds many advancements that have become a part of individuals everyday lives. This new high-tech approach has left people more reliant on smartphones. Although it has proven to be helpful, it also has shown to be detrimental to society as well. By shifting purposes to revolve more around media, becoming a necessity because of its features, it is hard to place a label on the subject as simply good or bad. Smartphones becoming more media and web based has its cons just as well as its pros.
This is why people nowadays are so obsessed with technology and dependent on it in order to improve their quality of living. This obsession has impacted creativity and communication a lot. However, there is no hundred percent assurance that this reliance on technology will always cause positive implications to humanity as every single matter has it pros and cons. Firstly, let’s start with creativity. Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something.
Consequently, they become extremely dependent or even hooked to the usage and convenient of technology. As a result, people’s dependence on technology has affected and ruined the creativity and communication. For instance, people rather spend time browsing Internet than thinking using their own mind or interacts and communicates with the persons around them. However, technology actually brings numerous of positive impacts to human’s creativity and communication at the same time. First and foremost, technology helps to arouse and trigger one’s creativity.
However, despite how far technology has taken humans and no matter how convenient it may make things, there are some disadvantages accompanying this level of access. IT (Information Technology) problems that businesses face when dealing with technology The Problem Facing About The Online Marketing 1. Social Media Management The power of the social media is that thing you can’t imagine, the skill
With technology growing rapidly nowadays distributed computing, programs to better study and social media alongside with quality learning sources, job loss, destruction weapons and internet vulnerability are some of technology’s benefits and drawbacks. Technology’s greatest and most helpful achievements have brought progress, but too often this progress would not be as good as we think if and only we do not use it responsibly. The most important thing about technology is the ability to cure diseases with microscopes, supercomputers and other related hardware giving us the chance nowadays if we want to help doctors, we can just donate our computers CPU power with distributed computing. What if we could share our unused computer power to help find a cure ? even while we are sleeping we are very-very busy our proteins our folding like crazy , every second a bazillion tiny proteins inside us are folding into a bazillion shapes, tiny tools our body uses to fight diseases that is when a disease is creeping Alzheimers takes 1 of 8 of us when we get old, cancer takes 2 of 8 of us, no matter how old we are and if they do not take us completely they take a heavy toll.