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TECHNOLOG
Y
Advantages and
disadvantages

Talk about technology is talk about a complex theme

of the modern world. There is no doubt, technology is
made to satisfy our main needs and help us in our
daily tasks.
However, technology goes beyond because it is not
only all advantages that it has, but there is very
important take account the "negative" part of the
technology if we don't know use it.
All is so good or so bad, it depends of the use that we
give it. For example, in the education process, the
technology can help us to improve of a best form
making use of the different interactive tools but if we
are lazy and we leave all to technology, it can be bad
because we lose the critical thinking.
Technological advancements are seen as an
important benefit for the human, it has also made the
world a much smaller and accessible place.

TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

Technology is an extension of our Although the communication with

body and it helps us in our daily
other people worldwide can be
life.
most economic and clear, an
aspect that it plays against is that
In communication, the immediacy
we
dedicate
much
time
to
and economy are the main
communicate with other persons in
advantages because with the last
front of the screen but we neglect
inventions, we can communicate at
the direct communication with our
instant with other people in any
near
environment.
So,
with
place of the world to a low cost. If
technology we can say our
we compare the costs of the first
communication with our parents or
technologies of communication
couple is null.
with
the
current
costs,
the
difference is great because now it
only is necessary to have internet
connection
to
do
some
communication.

TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

Education should be beneficiary Some teachers have fear of use

of the last inventions and
technology because it is different than
technology. For teachers there is
the traditional method.
great quantity of tools to
improve and ease their daily Generally, the students do not use
educational tasks. For example
technology correctly. Many students use
in the class preparation, they
technology to play, listen music, see
can develop much activities
videos and movies and they have the
making use of technology. Also,
education like excuse but really they do
in classroom, they have the
not study with the technology. Other,
possibility to have a helper to a
they use the main searchers like Google,
best development of the class.
Yahoo, Bing, etc., to find their homework,
but they don't read or study their
to get access to relevant
consultations, thus they will not learn.
information,
at
any
time
anywhere, and also they can it is probably that teenagers are losing
share these information easier
the critical thinking skills, because in
and faster than it looks.
many situations they do their homework
or oven they like to study making other
things at the same time and it is bad for
their
concentration
and
good
development.

TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

Medicine has been helped by The costs is the main disadvantage of

technology because with the
the technology in medicine because
new inventions, the doctors
generally, the costs of technology are
have improved their process
very high and anyone have not the
and the patients have found
possibility of assume these sums.
cure to their diseases. Before,
doctors had to do long The develop of the countries has to do
diagnostics to discover the real
in the access to the main discoveries in
disease and it was bad so
medicine. Generally, a developed
much for doctors like patients.
country will have access to them with
Now, the process is a bit most
most facility than the poor countries.
easy.
Most diseases has found their
cure.
Thanks
to
the
important
development of technology in
this field, countless lives have
been save and the overall
quality of life continues to
improve over time.

TECHNOLOGY
ADVANTAGES

Teenagers have in their hands, tools that

many persons had not in the past. They can
communicate, listen music and doing many
activities but especially they have the
opportunity of learn making use of
technology, using didactic tools that they
improve their learning process. Nowadays,
the students should not pass all day in a
library searching the homework. The process
is easier, only they start their technological
devices and search they need.

At any time and from any place of the world it

can keep a conversation, following in real
time the more important issues around the
world, the development of a new business
with a new customer is possible from one
other side of the world, work online with all
the coworkers in real time, communicate
through videos so you are to the other side of
the world, or even communicate in real time
with a doctor

The technology facilitate the life of the

people, is a vital tool to avoid moving from
one place to another and do not lose enough
time, speeds the processes in the work, it
helps to know new technical and scientific
advances in different fields.

DISADVANTAGES

Teenagers don't use correctly the technology. They

don't learn, don't investigate and in many
situations they become addicts to technology. A
boy prefers play in the computer, phone or tablet
than get out to play with her friends. The children
little by little go losing their critical thinking
because they only do mechanic actions linked to
the technological devices. It is not illogical to say,
the children are dominated by technology.

There are four points that are mostly on the negative

end of the inspection in technology

1. Technology are distracting our development.

2. Technology are disintegrating our relationships.
3. Technology are distracting our mental skills and
abilities.
4. Technology are depriving us as feelings.

References
Rahul Thadani . (2016). Buzzle. Obtenido de
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