Is Technology Making Our Lives Better Or Worse?

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Is technology making our lives better or worse?
More people have cellphones than toilets. Out of the world 's estimated 7 billion people, there are 6 billion people have access to mobile phones. A lot more than the estimated 4.5 billion people that have access to a toilet. Of the 2.5 billion who don’t have proper sanitation, 1.1 billion defecate in the open, according to the study (CNN). There could be a couple of reasons that more people have cellphones than toilets. One of the most obvious reasons is that some people can have lots of kids in one house, and only a couple toilets. Each kid could have a cellphone, but they all don’t have a toilet. And also, one person could have more than one phone, being a work or just a recreational cell
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Is technology making our lives better or worse? If I haven’t addressed it well enough yet, technology is making our lives better. In America, we try to save lives as much as we can. As I said before, technology makes saving lives much, much easier. Technology can make contacting someone easier by texting sometimes than calling. Let’s say you need to talk to someone and they are in a meeting; you’re not going to call them, or if you do they more than likely answer. So what’s the solution? Texting! You can text the person you’re trying to contact and they can answer it whenever they would like. One last reason that technology is great to have in our lives is it keeps you connected to the world around …show more content…
When you use technology in the next few days, remember some of the things I stated in this paper. You will more than likely think and then put your phone down. You will realize just how much time a day you spend on technology. Technology is a great thing, but too much of it can be a bad thing. It all depends on how you spend your time with it. Most people see technology as a good thing, but there will always be someone against it. I am saying technology is a good thing for

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