Technology, Blessing or Curse?

Knock Knock..
Who is there?

People in suits and holding booklets and brochures.

i wonder who they are.

- Oh so u say you've been here before, well then how can i help you.
- 'We were just passing by thought you might want one of these brochures"
- oh okay, i'll read it later, bye.

The front page has a huge title and a picture of a city in the background.
The title says "Technology, Blessing or Curse?"
I am just staring at it for a few minutes, reading over it a couple of times just to make sure i am not reading wrong. I wasn't wrong, it definitely said "Technology, Blessing or Curse"

it just made me think - Wow what a strong message, especially in this world of technology. Thinking over the message it made me wonder, what would the world be like without technology. Would it be a better place? How would people live? What would everyone be like?
It also made me of the reasons behind technology, i was trying to balance out the positives and negative.

Positives
- Everyone is linked by technology
- Makes life easier
- Instant Messaging

Negatives
- Energy to use technology is destroying the earth
- Technology became a primary source of information
- Natural Links have become smaller or broken
- Changing technology is changing humanity

So now looking back at the Message "Technology, Blessing or Curse"

In my opinion i think that it is a blessing in the sense that people have came up with innovative ways to make the world smaller and make people closer via technology. But i think that it is a Curse when people start using technology as a way of life. The curse of technology is the affect it has on people.

Technology would be good if it was not used to be lazy, technology should not be a way of life. It should be something that we use in life, not to make it easy and be lazy but to make the world a better place.
I think that Technology would not be as bad if it did not replace things like speech (unless you cannot speak), by creating things like instant messaging, creating an alternative to normal speech. The alternative is not the same, the thing with normal speech, not technologically enhanced, is the sound of the voice that you can recognize and the emotions put in. By using the alternative - instant messaging - it is not the same, words that are typed up don't have a voice or emotions, even if you are using emoticons is it really the same?

But of course with the changing technology there are other ways of communicating, such as voice chatting or web camera. These ways of communicating i have nothing against, they are a good way of keeping in touch with those people that are far away and it feels the same as if they were right next to you.

So Technology is both a blessing and a curse. Depending on how you use it of course.

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☺ ~OnlyGabs†az!~