The Importance Of Technology

I have grown up during a time where new and advanced technology is constantly being produced. Ever since the third grade, I have been enveloped in this technology. That being said, several other people my age and younger, have been part of this technological society even before I was. Technology has so many practical uses including, learning, socializing, and entertaining. My school recognized the importance early on, and incorporated a mandatory computer class into the school day. This was most likely the stem of my addiction to computers. As time went by, computers became more compact, and portable. Now practically everyone has a smart phone. The smart phone is the smallest form of a computer that is available to me. I use my smart phone at least four to five hours every day, whether that be texting, playing games, going on YouTube, or listening to music. Night after night, I would lie in bed and stare into the screen of my phone before I went to sleep for school. Later on in life, I repeatedly heard …show more content…
I went from ProQuest to Academic OneFile, and I still found nothing. I quickly began to feel frustrated after an hour of searching. I used search terms such as “technology,” “sleep length,” “screen,” “melatonin,” and “sleep.” I then remembered to use Google Scholar. I searched “effects of light on sleep,” and I immediately came across the article, “Effects of playing a computer game using a bright display on presleep physiological variables, sleep latency, slow wave sleep and REM sleep,” by Shigekazu Higuchi, Yutaka Motohashi, Yang Liu,and Akira Maeda. According to this article, the light affected people on average by about thirty minutes, to an hour. Also, the light also has physiological effects on the body. This article has the data necessary for me to better explain the findings of my