In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, we’re all required to do several things at once.
But this constant multitasking is all taking its toll...
Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, jibber-jabber, and rumours, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago, travel agents made our airline and rail reservations, salespeople helped us find what we were looking for in shops, and professional typists or secretaries helped busy people with their correspondence. Now we do most of those things ourselves. We are doing the jobs of 10 different people while still trying to keep up with our lives, our children and parents, our friends, our careers, our hobbies, and our favourite TV shows.
Our smartphones have become Swiss army knife–like appliances that include a dictionary, calculator, web browser, email, Game Boy, appointment calendar, voice recorder, guitar tuner, weather forecaster, GPS, texter, tweeter, Facebook updater, and flashlight. They’re more powerful and do more things than the most advanced computer at IBM corporate headquarters 30 years ago.
When you really think about it, there is always going to be two sides to this debatable. It is fair to say that technology can never move to fast. This is because technology has to be created and invented. If someone can keep up with this creativity, then society can keep up with the result. The faster technology moves, the more advanced our society can become. Only good things can come from technology. On the other hand though, due to the advancements in technology there are more disadvantages rather than advantages . Every thing that is created or developed has its limits. We should not resist the technology but we should have control on ourselves in adjusting to the technology. Technology influences our lives very much but it shouldn't become a major part of living.
But this constant multitasking is all taking its toll...
Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, jibber-jabber, and rumours, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago, travel agents made our airline and rail reservations, salespeople helped us find what we were looking for in shops, and professional typists or secretaries helped busy people with their correspondence. Now we do most of those things ourselves. We are doing the jobs of 10 different people while still trying to keep up with our lives, our children and parents, our friends, our careers, our hobbies, and our favourite TV shows.
Our smartphones have become Swiss army knife–like appliances that include a dictionary, calculator, web browser, email, Game Boy, appointment calendar, voice recorder, guitar tuner, weather forecaster, GPS, texter, tweeter, Facebook updater, and flashlight. They’re more powerful and do more things than the most advanced computer at IBM corporate headquarters 30 years ago.
When you really think about it, there is always going to be two sides to this debatable. It is fair to say that technology can never move to fast. This is because technology has to be created and invented. If someone can keep up with this creativity, then society can keep up with the result. The faster technology moves, the more advanced our society can become. Only good things can come from technology. On the other hand though, due to the advancements in technology there are more disadvantages rather than advantages . Every thing that is created or developed has its limits. We should not resist the technology but we should have control on ourselves in adjusting to the technology. Technology influences our lives very much but it shouldn't become a major part of living.