Nowadays, we have
already in an era of wisdom where machines are servants that functioned to
assist human being in their daily life chores. Even neighbours tend to use hand
phone to communicate rather than visiting each other, the mothers does not have
to cook to their family as the maid robots can take the job swiftly and the
fathers can drive an automatic remote car from his home to pick their child
from school. It is not technology to be blamed for but the humans that will
automatically change when they use it too much in their life. Technology just
makes humans to be a bunch of kids that need to use something even to
accomplish a simple tinny little thing. This attitude shaped humans to be distant
with each other thus creating a barrier that will eventually cause a severe
misunderstanding and might lead to war if this continues till the end.
First and foremost,
technology is defined as the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to
invent useful things or to solve problems. Basically the machines are invented
to solve certain problems based on certain mechanisms depend on the inventor’s
designs, knowledge and aims. The inventors always use their knowledge to be
applied with their intense skill to provide the best well functioned machine
that is useful to be used by the civilians. For example, a revolver was created
with the skill of an engineer which is then used by the police to capture
criminals. Humans are not prefect as well as the things they create. Certain
people with some genius but nerd minds always consider this imperfection part
is something that can be fixed. These kind of people always aimed beyond others
and expect that their doings way lead to a beneficial outcome for both him and
the peoples worldwide. It was inevitable that they won’t stop before their
heart pleased and satisfied on their own findings to correct the part which is
unperfected. A maniac like this will demand every single theories and field of
studies to be applied for the purpose of finding the true way of fixing the
machine imperfections even though they already know that the possibility is
nearly to zero. This kind of thought can drive humans to be more arrogant in
nature and easily conflicted with others. This can be clearly seen when a
country found a weapon that is really dangerous and can potentially harm other
countries, the countries around the world will absolutely put no trust to the
country with weapons and make haste to find a better weapon to the point where
they can threatened the country with that weapon. The persons with eligible
position in the government will also take this chance to expand their calibres
to the communities where he can use the communities to launch a direct
psychological attack to the other country with dangerous weapon in media or
social network. This can give an impact not only for the country but the
communities itself. They won’t stop quarrelling until one of them is defeated. This
scenario would probably cause a world war and chaos to mankind.
Technology which is
widely use in daily lives as the country produce more usable machines to help
develop more conditioning life have made it to be very essential for humans.
Humans tend to use technology a lot in order to conserve energy, make life even
well, health improvement and others. As far as it concerned, technology
increases the human’s habits of dependency towards something which sometimes
can cause trouble to themselves. Humans depend on technology too much and do
not want to use their own humane power to obligate things that can be done
easily. This is very notable as the guard does not even have to patrol the
place for security instead of just observing from the closed-circuit television
(CCTV) for the culprit while drinking a cup of coffee. When a person has the
luxury of using things they need excessively, they will surely not able to make
a single of the same things if the thing they use is unavailable or ruined.
Individually this things seems normal as the ruined machines can be fixed with
money, but if the money itself is depleted then how human can survive the harsh
life when they does not have a single usable things to depend on? Dependency cause the human to be greed. Then,
humans once again are to be blamed for their behaviours towards technology
because of greed. The nature of humans itself are really attracted to wealth,
intimacy and fame. They always seek things as far as to reach these goals. For
example, students want to live a better life when they are in university
because there are a slight feeling in their minds of being a rich and
well-being person. Greed is the seed of destruction. When a ruler is possessed
by greed, he or she won’t hold back to grasp all the good things and make use
of it for their own reasons. This condition surely affects the people in a
terrible manner such as their lifestyle is stricken, poor, mentally hurt and
psychologically unhealthy. Conflicts between the nobles and the poor are likely
to occur while the war between the community and ruler is a must. The ruler’s
greed over technology sometimes can cause people of community to suffer
terrible decline in economy and social problems. Terrible decline in economy
and social problems can lead to the fate of the country be conquered by another
strong ruler through war. The people also use technology to start the war to
change the leadership and make haste of certain improvements for community. This
type of war is a very tiny manner but will be bigger as it spread across the
globe. The popularity of that ruler will rise in a bad manner and cause the
nationwide to commence a supporting plan to assist the country for leadership
change. Besides that, greed also causes the leader to sell technology for money
and gold coins. This scenario can be seen throughout modern countries where
expensive weapons, cruises, aircrafts, mobile tanks are sold for rent with an
outstandingly high price. They did not care as if the merchandise is sold for
their own benefits. They does not even realise that thousands of precious lives
are sacrificed just for their lust towards being rich and wealthy. They even
sell bullets to the army to shoot old women, innocent children, babies and old
men. There are also countries that seem to be volunteering for help but they
keep the price for assisting as high as possible, just to take the money by
their side. In our daily life, money is not that important. Money is just a
tool to buy machines which is use to make our life easy and not to make
conflicts and terrorize things from surrounding. Technology is purposely for
our needs and it is not for taking other’s important properties.
Apart from that,
machines and robots indeed is an amazing manufactured being that can benefit
humans which had make them using suitable materials suited for the design.
Thus, the increase in machine manufacturing in factories can cause the incline
in human resources. It is not the technology that causes the decrease in
earth’s sources but the demands from humans that make this happened in a blink
of an eye. The earth’s sources usage is used even more than replaced by a new
one. For example, ten big tree was cut by a lumberjack and replaced by ten
little tree that take about several decades to grow fully into the big tree
size, Natural gas and petroleum are wasted and misused, the manufacturing of
non-recyclable machines that is dumped after it is not needed and many others
can best demonstrate the ruckuses caused by human itself that tribute to the
dramatic inclination in human resources. Some materials used for manufacturing
machines are pollutants. These non-environment friendly materials can
contribute to health problems, extinction of flora and fauna, thinning of ozone
layer, global warming, greenhouse effect, acid rain and the melting of ice at the
South Pole. Pollutants are very harmful for the environment regardless of its molecular
size. Precautions and steps taken from the government regarding this issue are
just to contain the pollution and thus reducing the amount of pollutants being
released. Even though the factory is equipped with filters to clean the smoke
which cause pollution, the smoke still remains as it is. Even a small amount
can cause a huge difference as the time flies. Although the government declare
a prohibition on open burning, smoking and illegal industrial business, the
humans won’t learn with words. They would ignore the order and continue with
their doings in daily life. Despite the nuclear power plants are shielded with
numerous insulating materials, natural disaster was unavoidable. Tsunami that
occurred in Japan lately is a good example where their nuclear power plant
located underground are destroyed by the wave and terribly cause deaths of
numerous citizens. The news are taken from: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/asia/japan-fukushima-radioactive-water/
“CNN-The drip, drip,
drip of bad news about Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant keeps going.
Several tanks and pipes at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant are suspected
of leaking toxic water, the chairman of the Japanese nuclear watchdog, Shunichi
Tanaka, said Monday. His comments come after the much-criticized plant
operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, said over the weekend that it had
detected a sharp spike in radiation levels in some of the pipes and huge
containers that hold the vast quantities of contaminated water accumulating at
the site. That issue is the latest setback at the plant, where Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe's government has vowed to step in to deal with the toxic water
crisis that has deepened concerns in Japan and abroad about the daunting scale
of the problem. Since the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit north-eastern
Japan in March 2011 set off meltdowns at three of the reactors at the nuclear
plant, TEPCO has been storing the enormous volumes of water contaminated at the
site in a steadily growing collection of containers. Some of the water tanks
were constructed hastily as temporary storage units in the aftermath of the
natural and nuclear disasters. Those makeshift containers are the ones where
problems have arisen recently”.
Furthermore, not only the environment will continue to deplete but
the people themselves can suffer various kind of diseases that results from the
various functions of advance machine technology mechanisms. The manufacture of
synthetic materials produced in industrial factory release toxic waste and
harmful gases. This dangerous waste will harm the citizen as they inhale,
ingest or exposed through skin contact and will lead to severe infectious
diseases such as cancer, liver failure and stunted growth development. Not only
through that, has the toxic waste also contaminated important human needs. Contaminated
soil can cause infertility of the soil. Infertility of the soil would decrease
in the soil yield. The trees won’t grow and the life of the faunas will
eventually decreases slowly with time. This also can cause the deaths of
animals that live in that particular polluted area as they consume food that
contain no natural nutrients present in it. Also, the death of trees can be a
cause of severe soil erosion. The balance of flora and fauna residing in the
soil will be disturbed. The salinity of the soil will increases which therefore
make it unfit to plant vegetables, making it useless and barren. Generally
crops cannot grow and flourish in polluted soil. Yet, if some crops manage to
grow, they would be poisonous enough to cause serious health problems in people
consuming them. Foul smell due to industrial chemicals and gases might result
in headaches, fatigue, nausea, etc., in many people. Soil pollutants would
bring in alteration in the soil structure, which would lead to death of many
essential organisms in it. This would also affect the larger predators and
compel them to move to other places, once they lose their food supply. Not only
the soil can be contaminated by the pollutants, the water also can be polluted
as well. Drinking contaminated water can cause a severe case of diarrhoea,
nausea, vomiting and cramps. The marine inhabitants will be affected and
decreases as they were poisoned by the toxic waste. Trees in the land that get
their water from the water source that is polluted can also be poisoned and
died. The birds that feed on marine beasts will can also decrease in their
population as their source of food is depleted. This will cause the disruption
in the food chain of an ecosystem and may eventually causing extinction of
flora and faunas. Air pollution is the most dangerous of all contamination as
it spread really fast and can give severe side effects in a short period of
time. For example, the carbon monoxide pollution can cause immediate death
towards citizens as the gas can disturb the oxygen transport in blood
circulation by binding itself to haemoglobin. The binding site of haemoglobin
will be reduced greatly as the carbon monoxide diffusion rate is greater than
in oxygen. The people that inhale carbon monoxide will suffocate to death as
result of low amount of oxygen that enters the blood circulatory system.
Another case scenario, harmful gases can cause terrible diseases such as asthma
and cancer. To conclude, many lives will be in danger when the air is polluted.
“29 August, 2013
Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on
Americans’ health.
The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as
industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and
commercial and residential heating throughout the United States, and found that
such air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year. Emissions from
road transportation are the most significant contributor, causing 53,000
premature deaths, followed closely by power generation, with 52,000. In a
state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the
worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually,
mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential
emissions from heating and cooking. The researchers also mapped local emissions
in 5,695 U.S. cities, finding the highest emissions-related mortality rate in
Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year
due to long-term exposure to air pollution. “In the past five to 10 years, the
evidence linking air-pollution exposure to risk of early death has really
solidified and gained scientific and political traction,” says Steven Barrett,
an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “There’s a
realization that air pollution is a major problem in any city, and there’s a
desire to do something about it.” Barrett and his colleagues have
published their results in the journal Atmospheric Environment.”
This article come from : http://lae.mit.edu/air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-u-s/.
Moreover, Technology in social network can influence youngsters into
doing terrible things such as making illegal sexual relations, viewing porn
harassments, mimicking terrible things done by the actors in movie films, stay
late at night or maybe not sleep at all during midnight to morning, addicted to
games and social networking and many more bad influence from the technology
itself. Technology enables the youngster to excess too many kind of networking
beyond their own boundaries. Youngster’s habits are easily influenced by
other’s ideology to seek for happiness in young age. The factors that mainly
contribute to this ill mental state of seeking pleasure are puberty. During the
early stage of puberty, teenagers seems to have a drastic change of the way
they think, their growth accelerates and secondary gender characteristic are
developing as well. This causes their psychological condition of wanting to be
an adult and live a happy life. The fact that teenagers tend to imitate western
style of clothing, aggressive hair style, cool looking merchandises and stuffs
without a slight of doubt are because of the influence they get from social
media. They seems to assume by doing things like that make them an adult and
demanding the community to acknowledge them as one. Another possibility that
may lead the teenager to be influenced by social media is addiction. Teenagers
have a great instinct to try new things they never did before puberty. If you
ask me, the percent of student that love to play game during my secondary
school at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Melor are probably more than 98%.
Even the newly first year student which are rich use expensive hand phone to
play games, and it is quite annoying to see them with their world. There are
students that addicted to movies that they always tune the internet for the
movies update. Most worst case scenario is those who addicted to the porn
videos and tend to watch them at midnight. It can be seen that most of the
teenagers are corrupted by the technology. Technology can shape them to be a
heartless person that corrupts another person. When a dad are addicted to play
games all the time, the wife and child may feel that they were ignored. The
child would likely to find another way to satisfy his need of wanting to be
happy thus making him to approach the way of his dad’s doing if there is no one
wants to guide him to the real way of seeking pleasure in life. To emphasize,
it is true that technology are really bad where not only the affiliated person
are influenced by it but the person near them also can be influenced as well.
To emphasize all, it was proven that technology
contribute too many horrible causes into our daily life. It is not bad to have
our country equipped with high-technology devices and machines but it is not
good to use them in wrong way. They are invented to simplify our life not to
make it even worse. Therefore, it is compulsory for us to remember that
high-technology machines should be use wisely because it may harm not only you
the individual who used them but the people surrounding you might be inflicted
as well.
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