Technology and its effects in our life Research 2022

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Research topic: Technology and its effects in our life
The evaluation of technology has changed the society drastically. A good number of
individuals across the world uses as well as gets benefited from the modern technology and the
huge amount of opportunities provided by the technological advancement is playing a massive
role in all phases of human beings. Technology has ease out the right to use a good number of
necessary factors that include education, industry, medicine, communication, transportation, and
so on. However, massive usage of technology possesses its drawbacks. Technology is right only
at the aspects where it is needed, but when it is used for small purposes, it is making our
lives less worthy, which we in today's world have no idea what it is. It would be easier to
lead a life with limited usage of technology and enhanced bonding between the members of the
society. The fact that the speed of completing tasks gets higher with the assistance of technology,
if often is not realized by human beings that its development has intricate life a good number of
ways. In the following paragraph, the affect of technological advancement on the society and
how technology has affected communication will be analysed.
One of the major negative impact that is imposed by technology on our daily life style is
technology has weakened the relations amongst the family members. Often, it is seen that being
busy due to miscellaneous devices, family members lacks a convivial ambiance as they used to
have in the past. Family members, before the emergence of technological advancement, use to
spent time with each other and spent their leisure time together. This, in turn enhanced the bond
between the members. According to researchers, children who spent more time with their family
develop a positive outlook towards life along with effective emotional intelligence. Thus family
time can be considered as an essential factor that helps in creating strong bond as well as
relationship amongst the family members. This in turn helps the same in coping adverse

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situations, inculcate family values, instil a feeling of security and much more. Innovation of
video games and similar kind of virtual entertainment tools for children is imposing negative
impact on the social development of children. According to researchers, playing with peers in the
playground enhances the genitive and emotional development of children. They develop the
feelings of being and belonging and this in turn, enhances their social skills. Thus usage of
technology for entertainment for children is imposing negative impact on their development.
Keating, Elizabeth, and Mirus pointed out that amongst the adverse impact of technology,
obesity can be considered to be the most dangerous one. With the emergence of laptops, smart
phones and other portable devices, the working hours of employees have got enhanced
Prolonged working hours as well as spending leisure time on laptops ad tablets enhance the
tendency of individuals to consume unhealthy food items Not only this, the urge of individual to
perform physical exercise has got also reduced to a great extent. Prolonged working hours in
front of computers have led to less blood circulation, neck pain as well as head ache. Along with
this, sedentary life can be considered to be the reason why a good number of people have a
curved backbone as well as bad posture. Obesity due to lack of exercise is the leading cause of a
good number of heart diseases.
However, Hancock, Thom-Santelli and Ritchie have argued that it is the responsibility of the
society to use the technological advancement in an effective way so that the optimum benefits
can be utilized. In this era of technological advancement, it is not possible to keep children away
from technology. For instance, technology helps parents for communicating with their offsprings
in order to know their location since its always enough for the safety of the children just to stay
connected with the family.