TECHNOLOGY: ARE WE ADDICTED TO IT?

Technology now a day has become an integral part of urban life. It’s even impossible to imagine life without technology. Wherever we see we find technology comforting our life. You want to talk to someone, no matter wherever he/she is, you have mobile. You have television to entertain you to keep you updated with news/events across the globe. And last but not the least we can use technology in education.  We can use projectors in school, e-learning and software for various teaching purpose.

This looks like a really good scenario, but if we delve a little deeper we can find some kind of problem with this technology.  This technology is making us addictive to it. For example, calculator, calculator helps us do very complicated calculations but you can easily find people doing very trivial addition also on calculator. You remove calculator away from them, they will take a lot of time to do that calculation.

Let’s take one more example, internet. We all know that internet provides us with vast source and access to knowledge. With the help of internet you can send e-mail which has revolutionized the communication. We can do shopping sitting at home. We have social networking sites to stay connected but these social networking sites are becoming addiction to people. People develop their virtual world and start living in it. Researchers found nearly four in five students had significant mental and physical distress, panic, confusion and extreme isolation when forced to unplug from technology for an entire day. Isn’t this an alarming situation?

According to me we should use technology in such a way that we don’t get addicted to it. I would like to say “Use technology but don’t let technology use u.” We should use technology for education but we should also consider the adverse effect which might arise due to overuse of it.