Can technology ruin happiness? People today regularly use their mobile devices to communicate with friends, but they do not take advantage of the chance to talk in person with those who are around them. As a result, using technical devices can make people isolated from the real world. Quality of life is influenced by the extent to which a person is happy, safe, and healthy. Technology has had a larger influence on human life and society overall than it used to a few decades ago. Although technology might have some positive effects, in this advanced technological world, the excessive use of technology has often resulted in negative effects on people’s quality of life, specifically in terms of happiness, safety, and health.
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This is one of the most important factors which helps to determine quality of life, and it is very obvious that the safer people feel, better their quality of life. Technology has provided many services like online banking and online shopping which has also created fear of online theft. Operating one’s bank account with just one click looks like fun, but online theft can ruin a person’s whole life savings. Hackers, with the help of technology, can steal savings from bank accounts with the same one click and can transfer money into their own accounts. The money that a person had been saving since starting to work for a better quality of life, for retirement, for the future can be stolen just because of that one click of technology. Not only in the banking sector, but technology has advanced even in fields like atoms and nuclear fusion which created the Atomic Bomb. The attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve as examples of the negative effect of technology on quality of life. As per Radiation Effects Foundation (1945), more than 100,000 people were killed, and almost same number were injured or lost, but the effect on quality of life of the people of that attack was even worse. Consequently, ten years after the bombarding, the radiation effects were still seen among people. Cancer and leukemia were some of the diseases shown even after several years. The atomic bomb was a “gift” of technology to humans which ruined lives. One more “gift” to mankind and its freedom given by technology is cybercrime. One notable reason for the increase in cybercrime is video games; there are video games which are very violent that makes people’s minds violent too. According to The Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 47 (2010), in 82% of sex crimes against minors, the offender used the victim’s social networking site to get information such as “likes” and “dislikes” of the victims, school, and home of
This is one of the most important factors which helps to determine quality of life, and it is very obvious that the safer people feel, better their quality of life. Technology has provided many services like online banking and online shopping which has also created fear of online theft. Operating one’s bank account with just one click looks like fun, but online theft can ruin a person’s whole life savings. Hackers, with the help of technology, can steal savings from bank accounts with the same one click and can transfer money into their own accounts. The money that a person had been saving since starting to work for a better quality of life, for retirement, for the future can be stolen just because of that one click of technology. Not only in the banking sector, but technology has advanced even in fields like atoms and nuclear fusion which created the Atomic Bomb. The attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve as examples of the negative effect of technology on quality of life. As per Radiation Effects Foundation (1945), more than 100,000 people were killed, and almost same number were injured or lost, but the effect on quality of life of the people of that attack was even worse. Consequently, ten years after the bombarding, the radiation effects were still seen among people. Cancer and leukemia were some of the diseases shown even after several years. The atomic bomb was a “gift” of technology to humans which ruined lives. One more “gift” to mankind and its freedom given by technology is cybercrime. One notable reason for the increase in cybercrime is video games; there are video games which are very violent that makes people’s minds violent too. According to The Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 47 (2010), in 82% of sex crimes against minors, the offender used the victim’s social networking site to get information such as “likes” and “dislikes” of the victims, school, and home of