What Are Advantages and Disadvantages 

of Ever-increasing Use of Technology

Half of the century ago no one would imagine how technically advanced our world be. But now, as we live in the century of full dominance of technology, it influences us in almost all spheres of life. It goes without saying, this dominance has a beneficial effect on human beings’ lives as well as it inevitably produces some negative impact on all of us.

With the development of technology people get used to notice firstly its positive sides. Firstly, it has helped to get in touch millions of people around the world: lost friendship could now be restored, distant relatives are capable of finding out about the existence of each other. Many parents do not worry about their children, leaving them at school as they are always in touch via their mobile phones. Besides, technologies have made our life so easier. Nowadays it is hard to find a person who does his laundry with his own hands; it is rather inconvenient and takes a lot of time. Instead it is hard to find a person who does not possess a washing machine at home. The conveniences used inside a house are innumerable: vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, microwaves and many others.  They have come so deeply into our lives that the modern children and teenagers feel lost, not realizing clearly enough how to manage the household chores without them. The last but not the least, the technologies have brought the most important invention, the Internet, into life. The Internet has become nowadays the most important source of a variety of information. Moreover, it enables students to increase their knowledge and develop their research skills. In short, it is difficult to make up something the Internet cannot be applied for.

Unfortunately, abuse of using technology is one of the modern sins which leads to unhappy consequences. First of all, some new inventions could jeopardize the life of their inventors and people around them. With the invention of atom bomb the humanity is on verge of starting the new war with no survivors at all. Therefore, I think, the main problem today is how to prevent this from happening as long as we can.  Secondly, a man has lost its mind; there is no need to think himself as the calculator can work out necessary figures and the Internet can find every required pieces of information. Finally, there is a danger for human being to lose their job as more and more works today are done by machines; they do not need to sleep and do not ask for salary, do they? As it is said in the article by Bernick, Michael “today, not a week goes by without a new study being released or conference convened on robots replacing jobs or a newspaper account of a new use of robots taking the place of workers” (1).
As for me, I am not able to imagine my life without technologies and I  am not definetely eager to reject using them while in my life their advantages overweight disadvantages. But to my mind the world has gone mad with invention of atom bomb and all-mighty artificial intellect as these changes put the existence of humanity to danger.

To make a long story short, I would like to say that the technologies has irreversibly changed our lives, but it is up to the future generation to decide whether these changes are for the better or for the worse.
(1) “After Robots Take Over Our Jobs, Then What?” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017, www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2017/04/11/after-robots-take-over-our-jobs-then-what/