Discuss The Consequences Of Using Technology

Are there consequences when using technology? Are we being too dependent on technology? Yes, I think we depend too much on technology now a days in this modern age. There are many positives and negatives to technology, if everything that powers technology were to stop working for at least a day, the world would be in jeopardy. If the internet were to go down for a couple of hours or anything longer than that, people would be at risk. Every person working in the office would be sent home because every office workers rely on the internet to transfer information or to just send an email. If you’re working for a major shoe, clothes company, then you would be at risk of losing money and employees would be losing their hard earned money. The companies who sell stuff like shoes, clothes or food, etc., would be the ones in major risk because they are losing profits and customers because everybody relies on the internet and order their stuff online. When people want to sell something they no longer do yard sales …show more content…
Technology can be a hazardous thing because as we get addicted to it, we can no longer stay away from it. Many driving accidents come from the distractions of our smartphones because unfortunately we have become too ignorant to see that there can be consequences and can cause permanent damage to ourselves. The major causes of car accidents are talking while driving or texting while driving, we become too attached to the phone that we can’t put it away while driving and we constantly look at the phone and takes about 1 second according to injuryclaimcoach.com to cause a major catastrophe. According to a AAA poll on edgarsyder.com 94% of teens know the danger of using your phone while driving, but about 35% of teens admitted to using their phone while driving and 21% of teens have died because of using their phones while