A prediction about our Future with Technology

Could we adapt in a world where the technology is simple and useful for everyone and in everything that contains a microchip?

The era of powerful and efficient technology isn’t a dream anymore; we are beginning this era of technological miracles where anything can be done by computers without human mistakes. But, will we only depend on the machines and forget the abilities that Man can realize by himself and make a lazy population? Should we change our human body with its inefficiencies and disadvantages into flawless machines like cyborgs? I answer these questions by saying that technology impacts positively and negatively, we just need to know the benefits and consequences that the technologies can generate.

In Many ways, our lives are easier thanks to technologies. Every day, we witness the wonderful power of computers, cell phones, GPS, microwave ovens, laptops or anything that uses a microchip;

Everything that we believe impossible can or will be done in seconds by computers. Medical surgery for a doctor is fragile, long and risky, but with technology, surgeries will be efficiently done and with less risk. Also we will see how mass production will be easier and faster, or we can see how the computers make mathematical operations easily in seconds, unlike Man who takes more time to answer it.


On the other hand, we have the question that we may not have considered all of the consequence we talk about technology. Would computers replace all the workers in a factory? To answer this question we need to look to history to understand what is coming and what will come on our future.

In the 19th century, when industrialization and the first mass production machines began, many workers in the factories were replaced by machines that produced more in less time than the human. Consequently factory bosses fired many of their laborers because the machines were faster. Laborers were opposed to the machines because they were replacing their work.

When I see technologies advantages, I also see that perfection has disadvantages. The worst part of this is that we are making ourselves lazy because of internet; anyone can google a word, find Wikipedia, copy the info, paste on a document, edit and done, you have an excellent and effortless homework

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity, but it also saves us from the stupidity” Albert Einstein

I can’t imagine a world without computers, neither a world controlled by them. I think that the technology must form a part for our lives but not all of it. We need to found the balance in which human and the computer can coexist, and make a better world.

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Eduardo Esau Pacheco