Modern Day Technology Essay

Modern day technology is fun to use and is a good pastime for the modern day man. Not only is it fun to use, but it is also very helpful in helping people get by in their daily lives. Electricity may be found nearly everywhere today, but it is a fairly new concept that was discovered nearly a century ago. Now people use electricity, sometimes not noticing until the electricity bill comes. Cars help humans reach distances and speeds that no one thought would be possible a century ago. Phones, computers, and the internet make it easier than ever to connect with people across the continent, and even around the world. Modern day technology has become a part of people’s daily lives, being used in their daily tasks, and sometimes used to the extent …show more content…
Most people go to work by driving a car. Some would argue that they use a bike, but by using a bike, that person would be getting help from modern day technology. Unless that bike was hand-built by a “bike smith” of some sort, then there’s a good chance that the bike was built in a factory. He would have no other choice, but to walk. Even simpler, making breakfast without using modern technology. The individual would not be able to use anything that came from the refrigerator, helping his food last longer. The microwave is clearly out of the picture and the stove is most likely powered by either electricity or gas; either way, it is technology used to help him. One must be able to find the food himself, most likely alive before caught, and one must have a wood-fueled fire ready to cook the meal and this is only for breakfast. From these two examples, it becomes evident that without modern day technology, even the simplest of everyday tasks can becomes a tiresome act or a battle for survival. People have become so dependent on modern day technology, that unless one thinks about it, they wouldn’t even know what it would be like to do everyday tasks, as simple as making breakfast, without …show more content…
Cellphones are one of the frequently used modern day technology today. Through an android app called ‘Locket’ the creators were able to gather numbers on its one-hundred fifty-thousand users to show just how much an average person unlocks their phone, or even just opens it (Woollaston 1). The average person checks it one hundred ten times a day (Woollaston 1). This was a statistic based on an app that monitored the amount of times the user turned on their phone, and the user was fully aware of this. This means that the user was most likely more conscious of how many times they were on their phone, knowing they were being monitored. Therefore the actual amount of times an average person checks their phone during the day would be much higher, if they weren’t being monitored. In fact, research revealed up to one-hundred fifty times per day, unmonitored, compared to the monitored one-hundred ten times per day (Woollaston