Technology: Boon or Bane

Hey, people, I want to start the blog with a question "what is technology to you?" I will tell you what I feel about technology, so for me, technology is a group of techniques, a skill used to make new products to make human life easy. I have said "EASY" because when new products are made, they are made for the benefits of human beings but have you ever thought that if the benefits transform into the loss of humans. In this blog, I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of technology to humans.

                Let us first count the items that we use in a day: pen, notebook, books, television, computer, and the most important which is a Smartphone. From television to computer, computer to tablets, tablets to Smartphone, cars to buses, buses to metro, almost everything is a technology and it is for our benefits. A pen lets you write, and it can be saved for many years, the paper is the medium on which you write. A book lets you gain knowledge from experienced people; a television lets you entertain yourself for some time. A computer lets you access online websites and to give you external knowledge and finally, a smartphone lets you chat and talk with your loved ones and people far from you. Also, you all got a fair idea of what all these do to our normal lives, and how important they are to humans. However, these are only the positive points of the technology and as we; all know that there are both positive points and negative points of any object or thing.

Now let us talk about some of the harms of technology. A computer is a very good device but if we use it for a longer purpose, then it can harm our eyes. The WI-FI that we use to connect our computer to the World Wide Web gives many radiations that can be harmful to our human body. The television, which gives us lots of entertainment, can actually change our lifestyles, I will tell you how, there are people who watch their role models on the television, and they try to copy the style of their role model that leads to change in their lives, and sometimes it can be harmful to our brain. The people will always think the way their role models do and which can make their lives fully dependent on television and then there can be some accidents. If I talk about the people's favorite device which is a smartphone, firstly it can make people get addicted to social media sites, it also harms our eyes by the blue rays, and the games are so dangerous that the death of children or teenagers is being very common. People's accounts are being hacked and so on. Always remember that if you are getting many benefits from technology then you are leaving the harms from that technology.

Technology has made changes to humans and their lives, they have given both advantages and disadvantages to humans, nature. If there is an advantage then always remember that there are disadvantages too. The person who made human life easy is not wrong but the person who is misusing the technology and blaming the person who invented, it is wrong because firstly you are misusing it and secondly it is made to make life easy. What I think is no one is wrong, in this world, people have invented robots and the robots are gaining knowledge but the people are losing the knowledge because the people are now more interested in their smartphones. My class teacher taught me a lesson in Sanskrit that if we share our gained knowledge then it increases but if we keep our knowledge secret in a locker then it decreases and now the people are decreasing their gained knowledge and this is sad for the future generations. If we are fully dependent on robots then our body and brain are of no use and then we are a waste towards nature and then robots will be a new generation for nature. Can you imagine human beings being slaves of robots, and robots being the master, what a weird situation? Isn’t it.

 Moreover, at the ending of this blog, I just wanted to say that technology is not just the small machines like mobiles but also the tractors and harvesters used in farming, which is helpful for the farmers, but not all the farmers can afford them. What about the space shuttles that are giving information on black holes, mars, moon, etc. I would conclude that technology has made human life easier but also remember that we should not be fully dependent on technology, as there are harms too. There are weapons for the wars between the countries, this tells that humans have made tools to kill humans; it’s not that they are made to kill terrorists but these weapons are killing humans only but now the security is also a reason to keep weapons. Besides, we conclude that technology is a boon and a bane, it gives benefits to people and some harm to the people. So do not just blindly trust technology, also look at the harms of the technology!