Some Innovations Make Us Lazy
Everything
seems to be moving so much more quickly nowadays. In the 21st century,
technology has evolved to accommodate a more convenient lifestyle and meet
every need. With the right tech in your home, you might not ever need to leave
your bed. If we go back a bit from previous years we see before had to queue to
buy a CD with the music we liked, or stop by Hollywood Video to rent a new
flick. Thanks to technology, these tasks are a breeze, now we just do all these
tasks from our cell phones. From the comfort of a sofa we can be aware of
everything that happens and we can perform various "activities" at
the same time, but we can really call them "activities"? Do they
stimulate something in our body for our benefit? Or are they bad habits we have
developed?
From the
comfort of my own house, while watching a movie on Pay Per View, I can pause
mid-movie to double check that my favorite songs on iTunes have been downloaded
or my playlists on spotify synced to my smartphone. Login to facebook to see
the latest notifications of my friends, take a selfie for snapchat and also
share it on instagram, then share images and publish online status, I flip back
to Pay Per View, resume the movie, and tweet out what’s happening on screen
like a narrator, amusing myself with the
flood of replies. However we do not see that we no longer share evenings with
friends, we put aside the family, we make birthday parties in publications in
facebook, good anniversary gift becomes share with a video on instagram; our
life ceases to be active socially, family gatherings no longer enjoy a joke but
to share the images that we walk in the cell. We settled so quickly to
technological innovations that are made but we have difficulties to regain the
life we had before all these innovations and that is where we say that some
innovations make us lazy.
Dominique
Jackson said in his article: “How many of
us go a week without could our cell phone? Technology has made
life so convenient for us that it’s almost scary to think of what would happen
if we had to go without our favorite gadget for an extended period of time”. Every day people
become dependent beings of technology, we see fewer people use a map and most
use gps cell, as well as can be very useful but we lose the sense of
exploration, we lose the intentions of knowing the way to our destination and
we forget our adventurous spirit. We lose more with technology than without it.
According to
Google, “How to tie a tie” gets over 500,000 searches a month. For some reason,
over 1,000 people are searching “how to boil water” and “how to boil eggs” gets
over 40,000 searches per month. Knowledge above were based on
experiences, which were transmitted to us by our family, but Google seems to be
our answer to everything; so it is with the books, we prefer quick search on Google
and so save the fatigue of having to look in books or other means involving
more our body movements of the movement of our fingers.
The technology was created to facilitate
the life of human beings, however; there is a misuse of technology, the main
idea of innovation is help and facilitate, not our work. Every day we rely more
on technology, and we forget and stand on their own. Moderate use is essential
for proper development in our lives, to leave the phone or any device and
jogging or exercising the body can be decisions that will give us a better
benefit our health and life.
References
Anonimus. (n.d.). Technologyuninhibited.
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Jackson, D. (n.d.).
Lifehack. Retrieved July 18, 2016, from
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/has-technology-made-lazy-and-dependent.html
Wagner, D. (n.d.). informationweek.
Retrieved July 18, 2016, from
http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/smartphones-make-some-of-us-lazy-thinkers/a/d-id/1319665
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