The Importance Of Beauty In Technology

Perception of beauty is important to the society (in pursuit of happiness), as would be expected for the modern society served by capitalistic machine that is materialistic and monetarily controlled by the media, which is in desperate need of motivation for competition. Inevitably, that means great attention is paid to the appraisal of a certain form of appearance which is considered appealing in the eyes of the majority. However, as aesthetic conception (of beauty) is being distorted to the extent that spark up discussion, debate and if not to our liking, soul searching and perhaps ridicule/criticism. But we should not get influenced by these so called ‘definitions of beauty’ the media wants to convince us to believe in, as true beauty does

Great news for human development, you’d have though. Not everyone thinks so. Many don’t see the beauty in technology and are fearful of this pace of progress in science and technology, and the way it’s challenging basic ideas about nature of human life. A clear illustration would be the rising trend of nomophobia in this era of smartphone boom. Used to describe the phenomenon” No mobile phone phobia”, the symptoms are easily recognizable and found among teenagers: an inability to turn off mobile devices, which adversely affects their work, family and social life, and they would also suffer from physical consequences such as neck pain and eye strain. Given these consequences, anti-technology groups may see no beauty in technology. On the contrary, others may see beauty in technology in the way it improves our quality of life. Take smartphone technology again, for instance, a lot of fitness and health management applications in Apple’s health app can provide a systematic lifestyle for users to do more sports and become healthier through the constant health monitoring progress performed by the smartphone(Bolluyt,2015). There’s certainly beauty found in these powerful apps that improve physical health in a click of a button. Convenience brought by technology can both improve and harm our health substantially in various ways, and whether one see beauty in it is entirely up to how him/herself use