Informative Essay: How Technology Has Changed Our Society

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Technology is all around us, I’ve learned from an old class I took that technology is even that of a pencil but here, we will be talking about technology like everyone thinks of technology, the phones, computers, and tablets. Technology has advanced and changed for the better (as most would say) every day since human civilization but in the past 30 years or so technology has taken a big turn into our society and has changed our social norms and everyday way of life. Technology has also changed our education field, some would say for the better and others might think of it for the worst.
Technology has changed so much in the last decade. So much that most of our elders can’t keep up with the changes. Today I will be talking about the evolution of just a two pieces of
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You can now probably find a Rotary in an average antique shop but it used to be a big new hit and everyone through that was amazing that you didn’t have to hold two different pieces to your mouth and ear. Today, we just expect new technology to come out every year or so but back in the 1960s and 1970s every advancement like the rotary was a big deal. Not too long after the rotary came out came the push-button phone which was the first phone that had a keypad to dial numbers. The keypad on the phones made a big hit and it still used today. After the push-button phone the answering machine was invented and although updated since the first model, it is still used today. Then finally came out the portable phones in the 1980s which are still used in households today but becoming more and more rare. After that the first cell phone was invented in 1984 and since then cell phones keep evolving just like the household telephones from the Motorola DynaTAC to today’s Iphone a lot has changed. One author spoke out about the change and stated that he had a special relationship with payphones and today they are just about non-existent he stated that the “cell

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