Is Technology Good Or Bad Essay

Is technology really that bad? Does it really affect our lives in more negative ways than positive ways? Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average (visualize them here), which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. But those searches could be for good causes too, but there is always a bad side of the argument, are most of the searches useless and unnecessary?

What helps us capture memories with a click of a button? Technology.
What helps us connect with other people across the world? Technology. What provides us with better learning environment, better living conditions and better time management skill? Technology. Some people strongly believe that technology is so helpful. How and Why?!

Learning is a big part of the school curriculums nowadays, students are required to carry their personal laptops with them everyday at school.

People are becoming obese due to the fact that they are not exposing themselves to outdoor air and activity which can be severe in the long term. Technology can change our personality, from super duper active to extremely inactive in the period of 2-3 months. We do not see many children playing outside as we used to, this MUST mean something, right? We often think about it so much, why don’t we do something? Because we are too lazy, it is technology’s fault.

I have given you the reasons for both sides, but what do you think, is the negative side stronger or the positive side stronger? I think that technology is more harmful than helpful since the reasons against it are strong and make sense, the positive side’s reason make sense too, but the reasons against technology are very reasonable and I see way many people want it to be banned.

Snigdha Rai