Importance Of Technology Essay

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Technology is important to all people. It becomes one of the necessary that we need in our daily life. Firstly, phone is one of the technology that we need to communicate with each other no matter how far the distance. Nowadays, as we can see, everyone has their own phone that being a necessary to us.
Most kids these days don't even know how to use a dictionary because "Google has everything" so they don't see it is a necessary skill. They can find everything that they want by using smartphone, laptop, tablet or computer. Besides, teenagers spend their time on their phone than their family. They spend their time on a phone, the television, and the computer to do a lot of the communication. They think that all of the technology will help them
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What if it all one day disappeared? What would we be left with? Would we even be able to communicate with our friends or enjoy life at least? How we can survive without these necessary? We should all focus more on reality than just the screen in front of our face. We also must appreciate and use our technology efficiently. Communication keeps me in contact with everyone. Without it I think society would have some serious issues to deal with. I also believe though that with proper mental training one can rely on technology and still retain good mental health. It's all about how aware you are of your actions. So, we have to become overly dependent on technology. While it obviously has it's uses and we certainly live better for it. The accessibility to information that technology brings and dependency one it means that people, especially the younger generations tend to be at a loss without it. When people forget their phone and do not have it on their person, they often feel the phantom vibrations of the phone that is not there, much like a lost limb. There is less of a need to maintain knowledge and learn a language when we can just use automated translators and pocket-dictionaries and maintain normal social interactions when the majority of our friendships are maintained online. We have to remove from recent technology today for a week or for a month, we would find it hard to cope with the

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