Why Is Technology Important?

Most people today don’t know how to look something up without looking at their phone. In fact more often than not if you asked someone how to do something they would just pull up a youtube video for you to watch. It would be much easier and they wouldn’t have to think of a way to explain something to you. With all the access to technology the world has become lazy to the traditional researching and learning method. Reading used to be the essential way of retaining knowledge and information. If you wanted to know something you would have to pick up a book and read it. Today’s videos that are so useful in demonstrations of building used to be in a book and everyone had to try and make sense of the pictures. It was essential to have language and …show more content…
There have been upgrades in computers, software, television etc. All of which was made to be used as a tool and for entertainment. With all this technology we have become dependent on using it not just as a tool but as a necessity to learn. The computer is giving us the ability to research without actually obtaining quality information. All of the analyzing and research is already done for you in one easy click. As an example, if you were assigned to read a book for class and do a report on it. People normally would read the book while taking notes and come up with summary’s for each chapter and come up with their own opinion of the book. There is no need to do that when you have a computer and can just look at summary’s instead of reading. The computer takes away the necessity of reading when it should only be used as a tool to understand reading. Carr talks about us becoming so accustomed to using the computer he wrote, “The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.” (Shallows by Nicholas Carr) There is no excuse for not reading the actual book it is the foundation that you need to build your information off of. When people are looking up the summaries and not doing the work themselves …show more content…
What people are yet to understand is that it has brought a burden to our society that now most people cannot live without. The need and want for technology has made a big hit to the world and how we all learn and go about learning today. More often than not instead of someone reading and picking up a book they turn to a computer or a phone to find the answer and quick and try and prove that they knew it all along. These devices that are so commonly used are doing nothing for us but being a cop out to working hard and achieving knowledge on our own. We as a society have become to lazy and have neglected the important things. While doing this we have lost valuable language and writing skills, and have developed a skill that really won’t benefit us. Computer’s and phones for example have brought us such a gift in the ability to communicate fast and easily but it is all for nothing if we continue to use them for just receiving answers. Our brains today are wired to get things done faster and faster without actually giving anything the proper amount of thought and quality time needed. With the technology today there is always something more important to be done and something else out there that will distract us from focusing. We as a society need to be better about this and strive to use technology not as the answer but as a tool for helping us learn. There are so many different ways to help a