Technology has made the world a better place to live

Technology has played an important role in our lives nowadays. People use technology almost in all aspects of their lives. Technology has become part of our lives. From example, when we wake up then see what time it is we see our clock, clock is the example of technology. Then before we start our daily activity, we take a shower using shower, shower is another example of technology. That just simple example, I can give you more examples but what I want to emphasize is I want to show that we face technology everyday in our lives. We can not deny that we need technology. Before we talk too much about technology, I think it is better for us to know what the meaning of technology is. According to Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, technology is the application of scientific knowledge, and the methods and materials of applied science. In other word, we can simplify that technology includes two things, the methods and the products.
Electricity is one of the products of technology. We use electricity as our source in doing our activity. For example: we need electricity to turn on the lamp, imagine if there were no electricity, means that no lamp, we would live in the darkness. We use electricity to turn on our telephones, TV, radio, refrigerator, washing-machine, and of course computer. We have to admit that computer nowadays is our second brain, our tool to do our job. Almost every job use computer. Computers also control a lot of things, if there were no computers, we would control manually which would be difficult.
Below, I would like to describe some of the advantages of technology in some aspects.

Technology in transportation makes it easy to move from one place to another place because the invention of car, plane, ship, train, etc. It allows us to be a mobile person, and it saves our time. For example if we want to go to other country, we can use plane, which is take a very short time to travel abroad. It allows us to visit other places in a short time.

Technology in medical field has helped doctors cure their medical patients. Technology helps people live longer, I mean technology can cure some diseases, also can retard the damage of the body. For example, hemodialisa machine can help patients with kidney problem live longer because this machine can retard the damage of the kidney. This machine replaces the kidney by discard the poison in the body. In surgery, now we have the method which is called laparoscopy. This method gives more advantage than the manual surgery. Laparoscopy is different with manual surgery, we do not need long cutlet. In laparoscopy, the surgical operation does not need cutlet, it only needs very small pricks in our body. This prick is very small, only like a dot. It needs three pricks in our body, from these pricks, some kind of tube enters our body, also the camera. And the doctor does the surgery by seeing the monitor. The advantages of this method are low risk, the recovery only need a short time, painless, no scratch.

Technology in working area makes the job easier to be done. As I mentioned earlier that recently almost every job has been controlled by computer. Computer helps people do their job effectively and efficiently.

Technology in education field supports the learning process that can motivate and help the students.

Technology in household helps people do the housework. For example, we do not need to wash manually, but we can use washing machine.

Technology in communication helps people communicate and get in touch with others effectively and efficiently. For example, we can use telephones, cell phones to talk to our relatives that live in different city. By watching television, we know what happens in the world, etc.

Somehow, technology helps us in make things easy to do. Technology makes our lives be much easier to live. By technology, we can do everything easily. We need technology to support our life. I think people start to depend on technology. In other words, we can say that we can not live without technology. And of course technology has made the world a better place to live. Technology helps us to overcome the problem as a human being in the world. Technology gives us the things that we can not get from the nature. But of course we have to have a big responsibility in using technology. We have to be aware of the development of technology. As a human being, we have to remember that we are the creator of technology not the slave of technology. We have to use technology in a good purpose, not to harm others. When we use technology, we have to care about environment, animals, and other people. Do not be greedy, do not use technology as a tool to do crime or evil things. :)