TECHNOLOGY OR HUMANITY?

Unarguably, the advantages of technology are countless. With just pressing a button, you can go online and access lots of websites, send instant e-mails to whoever you want, buy products and also pay for them, download free pictures (as well as games,  videos, etc.), access to plethora of information about every single topic you could imagine, create texts, take pictures or record videos, and many other examples. Holding a face-to-face conversation from China to Spain is possible nowadays, and people can always be connected with their families, friends and almost the entire world, without the need of writing letters to long-distance communication. This amazing reality was unthinkable 50 years ago: it seemed impossible.

The new generations of young people (especially since 1990) are becoming more and more addicted to the current electronic technologies and all the devices involved. This fact has lead to the appearance of a new period in the history of the humanity, another step to evolution, a new real era: the Era of Technologies.

However, the disadvantages are also important. It is not only the addiction it creates in people (which is really hazardous though), but also some major problems. For example, the appearance of cyber-bullying is a result of the bad use of technological resources. Social isolation is also a typical problem in young people´s personality, because they trust too much social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Besides, the information stored in our electronic devices is usually enormous, and we are not aware of the fact that if the Data Cloud crashed, we would lose everything.

To sum up, I would like to say that we should not forget we are humans, natural living beings, and technology is there for our help, for making our lives easier. We must never let ourselves be influenced or dominated by these electronic resources. As Einstein used to say: “The day when technologies overcome humanity, then we´ll be completely idiot”.