Technology improves our lives?
I was brought up by my grandma with my cousins in a small village. We spent our free time with our family members or our friends when we didn’t have a television. We went to bed earlier after we had a nice chat with others because there was limited electricity at night. And soon I moved to the town as I had to go to the kindergarten. Life used to be very simple at that time, but I can feel the changes. We even went to see movies on weekends. I think that was a wonderful time. However, the technology improves so fast with out a glance. Every family has television and telephone. We don’t go to visit friends instead we give them a call. I can feel the distances between people are longer although it is easier to contact each other. ‘Potato couch’ souds bitter because people are lying on the couch, chewing the chips and becoming lazy and unhealthy.
There are both advantages and disadvantages of technology improvement. As I mentioned before, life becomes easier. We can talk to others through the internet even we are in different countries. The phone also develops from cell phone to smart phone. The smart phone provides multiplicity of functions. The functions such as push email, weather report, stocks report are really helpful. I downloaded some more apps such as Pandora, dictionary, Garmin, and sleep makers. The new generation Iphone has a facetime which is very interesting. You can watch your friend when you are talking though the phone. The smart phones are become more humanity, more professional and more entertainment.
Obviously, the disadvantages are serious. For example, I used to addict to the computer games and so as my cousins. I could not leave my chair as I was stick on the games. I dreamed about the games even I was sleeping. It was horrible I played games from 6 am, and I didn’t go to sleep until 12 pm. My cousin was even worse; he could not continue his courses. People rely on the hi-tech a lot in the daily life from cooking, laundering, gardening, farming and transporting. We spend more time on gym trying to keep fit but less time at home. People become bigger than those in the 1940s. Scientists claimed that people do less housework and eat more. Another example was the phone issue. It is weird people don’t talk to each other, instead they text to others, even they are close enough to have a nice talk. My experience was that my friend text to me every day, but she was living the next door to me.
I am so glad that the gaming becomes a global issue and finally the game companies do something right. The industry is trying to change the way people used to play the games. You have to move your whole body-not only your fingers to play the game. In some games you have stand up, leave the couch. And the games will be more entertainment. Technology will bring us better life.
I can’t claim to have grown up in a village, but I do relate to the somewhat nostalgic feelings about the relative simplicity of our youth. Not electronically tethered to a cell phone, and not yet addicted to video games, my early youth was spent outside, on a bike, or running around the neighborhood with the rest of the kids. Nowadays, I don’t feel that the neighborhood kids play outside the way I used to. I have a feeling they are more indoors now, playing their several game consoles, engrossed in texting one another, instead of meeting in person. And I don’t think we are going to reverse that course, but it is nice to see that game companies are starting to get kids moving again. I think the Kinect system could a long way in helping our kids slim down a bit. It certainly should be a step in the right direction.