Essay on Technology

Technology: Boon or Curse

In our day-to-day life, we use gadgets to make things easier. We use many technologies due to which we can go anywhere, do work with their help, can talk to persons from other cities or countries, can do the job from home and many more. Technology is neither good nor bad but how we used them can decide whether it is beneficial or not. For example, we watch TV by which we can learn most of the thing but on other hand, we can pass our time too. Watching TV for more hours can also damage our eyesight.

Technology is the sum of techniques, methods, for the generation of goods. It makes most of our work easier. We can understand it by example, In early days we don't have printing services to print banner for advertisement so people draw banners by hand and they were not able to take pictures and also take lots of time but nowadays we have the technology to print banner which takes very less time and can give good results. There were many more examples of technologies we use to do our work. 

As we see in our society, many students use mobile for their benefits but many use them for time pass like playing games for more hours, watching videos. Many students play with their health by watching bad videos. There were both things, good as well as bad. How you use the thing decides whether it is a boon or curse for society.

Now everything goes online as we see many persons are working from home, buying tickets, groceries, clothes, tech. All are the gift of technologies. Technologies could be beneficial as well as cursed.

Benefits of technology in our daily life:

There are lots of benefits of technology. With their help, we can do our work easily and quickly. Some of the advantages are as follows:

1. Transportation: by the help of technology we can transfer any object or product from one place to another. It helps us in other ways too. 
2. Saves time: with the help of machines or technology, we easily do our work on time. 
3. Less Worker: with the help of technology, there is less employee required for work also machine does work as we need and does it on time or take less time than human.
4. Cost of work: Work can be done with the help machine in lesser time and with fewer employees which cuts the cost of productivity
5. Banking: Due to techniques, now we can do banking, payments, and transfer via online mode which makes things easy. By online payment, the risk of stealing is minor. 
6. Studies: Nowadays students can learn online, after covid-19 every school, college, institutes use online mode to teach students. 

As machines or technologies have lots of benefits, there its disadvantages too.

Disadvantages of technology 

There are many disadvantages of technology like it distracts from work and many more. Some of the drawback of technology:

1. Security of data: Data can be hacked by anonymous which is unlawful. They use to steal data and sell them to earn money which is dangerous for the person whose data has been stolen.
2. Distraction: It distracts people from work, students from a study which may be the loss of the country too. 
3. Job: Many people got jobless due to technologies because it reduces the human empower. Moreover, it also reduces earning of the employee as many employees got jobless. So, people need and they have to work in less income.
4. Privacy concern: Privacy is the right of every human being. As technologies are getting more and more advanced hackers are looking into someone's id which is a concern in the world of technology. For example, just a few days ago WhatsApp was going to read our messages but now it willn't tamper with our privacy.

Technology is good but how we use it decides whether it is a boon or a curse. As we saw work can be done easily in less time but on the other hand, people are getting jobless. Also, people can talk to anybody from anywhere with the help of technology but on the other hand, calls may be hacked by somebody. So we have to decide to use technologies for our benefit, not for creating problems for others.