Technology and Its Power

These days, technology is one of the most important things in our modern lives. It has made our lives more convenient. But have we ever sat back and thought about the effect of its power on our society? Technology has influenced on essential things in our lives. Have you ever thought that what our society will become in the next decade with the fast-growing technology? Technology and its power has the strong influences on our society that we can not realize if we don’t sit back and think about it.

“The Internet and the World Wide Web are creating networks of human connection unthinkable even a few years ago” (Tannen, 647). The Internet is one kind of technologies that has helped people many things in our lives and if without it, we would not know what to do instead. “E-mail gave me the chance to be in touch with someone who dying far away” (Tannen 646). People can get in touch with others who live far away in only a second by sending an e-mail or making a phone call. People can even look at each others when they are far away by using webcam over the Internet or making a video phone. Technology can make impossible things to become possible ones. “When my friend Larry died, how much it meant that the telephone made it possible to spend a day talking to others who knew him. How much it meant that Larry said goodbye. This is a gift he gave me, and technology made it possible.” Technology and its power encourage people to do things that they can not do without technology. For example, I would had left my country, Vietnam, coming to America because I knew that I can keep in touch with my relatives and my friends who are in Vietnam easily by using the Internet or telephone anytime I want to.

By reading “The library card” in our textbook, I know that African-American could not read some kinds of books in the early of twentieth century. “There was a huge library near the riverfront, but I knew that Negros were not allowed to patronize its selves any more than they were the parks and playgrounds of the city” (Wright, 136). If technology had grown at that time, everybody would have read what they want to read without going to a library. There were many huge libraries on the Internet nowadays and people can read or search for any books they want to. Technology and its power rule over almost our industries. Today, offices and companies use computers to operate their works. Computers rule over the operations of almost the huge manufactories and its power can make them running smoothly with only some human control. That can be a good thing because we do not need too much human physical strength; but it can be a bad thing because many people would lose their jobs because of technology upgrade. Can you imagine that our society will become if all of the computers do not work for only a single day? That will be a very terrible day