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Technology

currently we are faced with a period of time that heavily revolves around technology. Now we live in a society that is very over dependent and relies heavily on technology to complete its tasks. Since technology has come into our lives we feel that now we could never live without it. This shows the high degree of expectations and faith in technology that is apparent everywhere around us. Technology was once considered a luxury, now it is a necessity. There are two methods of coping with technological change: accept it and implement it or oppose it and try to stop its progress.
There are many positive reasons why our society should accept and implement technology. Technology has advanced our societies health care with the discovery of new treatments to certain diseases (Daniels 2002). This improvements seen in Chemotherapy which acts as treatment for cancer. Not only is the medical world improving through technology the communication systems world wide are upgrading. Important information can be sent around the world by a press of a button. The Internet has totally revolutionized the modern world. With the invention of the Internet we are internationally connected to people all over the world.
More importantly we should take into consideration the negative effects that technology can have. These negatives give us reasons why we should oppose this abundance of technological change. It introduces a change that temporarily disables a society. Technological determinism is a theory that suggests that change is not necessarily initiated by the individual, but by technology (Bain 2002, 122). Technology has greatly effected and altered our society.
There are many negative aspects of technology such as over dependence, discrimination towards older generations and the exploitation of privacy.

Over dependence on technology is detrimental to society and contributes to the negative aspect of technology. Furthermore we are doomed to be dependent on technology as long...