The Influence Of Modern Technology

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We live in an age in which modern technology has greatly developed and advanced. It has become indispensable in our lives. Imagining our lives without technology is hard, and most people probably would not even care to do that. If we look about our home or workplace, we find an AC here and a PC there; a refrigerator here and a printing machine there. What do you find by your side all the time? Your handheld device, of course. Such technological devices have really improved our lifestyle by saving time, effort and energy for only a little extra cost. They provide us comfort and convenience in our day-to-day lives. Modern technology has made it easy for people to acquire education, helped expand and improve businesses, made it easy to stay in …show more content…

It might have been something we read or someone saying something to us, but we cannot pinpoint exactly what made us so blue. Now, however, modern technology has come up with devices that have the capability to detect our emotions. Cognitive psychologist Mary Czerwinski works in affective computing, which emerged in 2000 from the laboratory of Rosalind Picard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Allen)1. An early project of Picard’s was based on helping autistic children. Such children are not good at communicating their feelings, which hinders parents and caretakers from providing the best care possible. Picard designed wrist sensors that could feed information about the stress or strain that the children were undergoing to cell phones of caregivers. Hence, this helped the caregivers to take appropriate action and, more importantly, at the appropriate time. “The sensors have provided data that has allowed people to see things that they were guessing about, and often guessing wrong,” Picard says (Allen)1. For example, a child may be looking calm and serene by his expression but inside he may be feeling stressed or …show more content…

There are increasing cases of children running away from home, divorce and other mishaps due to people not being able to understand each other. Also, some people hide their inner feelings but at the same time want others to know them. In addition, some people do not know their own selves, cannot understand their own emotions. Such problems can be overcome by devices that help us to identify our own feelings towards certain things, events and people and also that help us understand our fellow human

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