How much do people depend on New Technologies?

How much do people depend on New Technology nowadays?
By Alberto E. D. New Technologies have modified all the aspects of life, from jobs to how we spend our leisure time. Most of us use these new technologies on our everyday life, most times without even realising that we do things we couldn’t have done just ten years ago.
There are lots of examples of this. MP3 players are a very good one, as they are used by lots of people. Videogames and films have also had a lot of development recently, and so have the mobile phones. Probably the most remarkable example is the Internet. The Internet has changed the whole world’s way of communicating and even thinking, as now it is easier to know what happens all around the world.
But these new technologies do not only affect the way we spend our leisure time, but also the whole of our lives. Although we do not pay much attention to this, there are a lot of medical improvements that have been developed thanks to these new technologies. More and more sophisticated programs control factories and many other aspects of our life. Even journeys are controlled by machines, as GPS are spreading all over the most developed countries.
People are nowadays dependent on technology. We may not always be aware of this, but we spend most of our time doing something related to new technologies, many times without realising. This may have many advantages, as it makes our lives far more comfortable, but it also involves some risks. Will we end up being unable to do anything without technology?



How much do people depend on New Technology nowadays? By Blanca E.L.
Nowadays, people from the development countries depend totally on New Technology.
We have become accustomed to using them in our daily life. They make our lives easier, we don’t have to do big efforts practically for anything. We could search on the net whatever we want, we could communicate with any person wherever and whenever we are by phone or also on the net, we could have amusement with the game consol and billions of more things that new technologies enable us to enjoy.
But we don’t use them only for entertainment, since the moment technology enters in our society we need it to live. We use computers to work in every job rom an architect to a teacher or a doctor. Students also use them to do our papers, to find more information…
In the house there are also many technologies, for example the electrical appliances which are expanding, each day someone creates a new machine which does different kinds of things, or the means which are in all the city too. We can’t imagine a city without streetlight or traffic lights.
We really depend on them, the proof is that if a day there’s a blackout in a whole city it would be totally collapsed, traffic would be a disaster, we couldn’t see anything at nights, hospitals wouldn’t work…
Although we don’t think of it, we use technologies everyday. We have to remember that 50 years ago, phone, washing machine, computer, tv… didn’t exist!! Could we imagine a life without them?
Maybe our answer is not, well, think about all the people, more than the ¾ parts of the inhabitants on the planet who don’t even know that these things exist or think about the question: Could they live? Are they alive? Do they really need new technologies in every moment?