Six in the morning. You get out of the bed, turn on the TV and a woman starts to read a news script and reports you what is going on around the world in details. You get an apple out of the refrigerator which keeps the food fresh and cool for longer. Then, you get dressed in a nice suit and hop on your brandnew sportscar and tune the radio to listen to the weather forecast. As soon as you get into the office, you put the power on your laptop to check whether you have received any e-mails. After all, you video-call your girlfriend to say goodmorning. No one would have dare imagined a life of this hypothetical man few decades ago. Even though some side effects exist such as environmental pollution and traffic jams, I firmly believe that the development of technology has brought us a lot of benefits that made our lives so much easier. Advance in technology improved the quality of people's lives in both physical and cultural aspects.
First of all, advance in technology dramatically reduced the effort and workforce needed. Prior to the invention of communication and transportation devices, people had difficulties to get in touch with people who are far apart. Not only friends and families in remote areas often lose contacts, but also People used to sail few months just to trade with overseas countries; and many of them even died on the sea. On the other hand, it is now possible to have a face-to-face conversation on the mobile phones, and you could send an e-mail to your friends instead of writing letters. Also, people in nowadays can just book a flight ticket to wherever they want to visit; it only takes a day at the most on the airplain. You do not need to risk your life to have an international trade; machines produce goods at a factory and trucks and ships simply deliver it for you.
Furthermore, the IT industry granted the people with freedom of speech, also promoting the globalization which enhanced our lives. The development of IT technology, people nowadays became more aware of what is going on around the world and start to speak out what they think about certain social or political issues. Before the IT industries develop, people had to simply accept whatever is on the newspapers. Yet, now we became able to write our viewpoints on our personal blogs or websites. This is an impressive change as television and newspapers are only one-way communication devices, whereas internet enabled the mutual communication, respecting people's right of speech and publish. People can freely talk and share their thoughts in a cyber space with those people from all around the world; this played a significant role to create the globalised world. Various cultures are blened together to maximize the benefits. For instance, People use cellphones produced by Samsung in the United States, while young Korean people love listening to pop songs on their iPods, and so on. There is no doubt that it will certainly provide the consumers both in Korea and the United States with a wide range of products that they can choose from. In other words, we now do not need to actually travel abroad get the products that we want from the foreign countries.
All things under consideration, I believe that advanced technologies have afforded us lots of advantages; it connected friends and families close together by fast transport and communication system, also contributed to the right establishment of democracy and globalization. As the decades pass away, scientists have been continuously discovering cures and vaccines for the diseases that people had been considering incurable. Robots are operating factories and a sheep has been successfully cloned. I understand there are some drawbacks in the development of technologies, yet we could possibly expect a new scientist with another great revolution. |