Сочинение по англ. яз на тему technology and its positive and negative effects on family and friendship

We live in the era of high technologies, and we use modern inventions in our everyday life because they have brought us much comfort. New technologies have spread on every field over the past 15 years. Moreover, they are rapidly changing. For example, video-recorders, DVD-players or compact disks have already become obsolete and have been replaced by more up-to-date devices. Today we can hardly imagine our life without such modern mobile devices as cell phones or laptops. Our offices are fully equipped with computers, printers, scanners, air-conditioners, interactive whiteboards and wi-fi modems. Household appliances (vacuum-cleaners, coffee-machines, dish-washers, food processors and others) help us to save our time and energy.

However, we should realize that digital and electronic inventions have both negative and positive impact on our daily life.

I am absolutely positive that new technologies or gadgets are making things faster, easier, more comfortable and interesting. For instance, if you install a GPS (Global Positioning System) in your car you’ll never get lost again. And could we imagine just 15 years ago all the things we can do on the wireless Internet nowadays: connecting with friends from all over the world, online shopping and banking, distance online learning, finding virtual relationships and even working from home? Isn’t that awesome?! Our parents used to go to post-offices to send letters or pay bills, they went to libraries to find a good book and they used telephone-booths for phone-calls.

On the other hand, I know some people who are strongly against some modern inventions because they really miss those days when they talked to each other face to face in reality, and not virtually. I partially agree with that as I really believe that people are becoming anti-social and too dependent on their gadgets. Some of my friends also spend half of the time occupying their shiny gadgets (smart-phones or i-pads) even when we go out together. Besides, people who use various social networks a lot (such as Facebook or Instagram) should worry more about their privacy.

Summing up, I could say that there are serious arguments both for and against the use of new technologies but anyway it’s really difficult to imagine our life without them today

We live in a time when technology is developing rapidly enough. Back in 2000, we could not imagine that our toys could replace VR technology, a computer and the Internet. Today, children can use all of the above technologies, they can realize all their dreams with the help of new technologies. These technologies have their pros and cons.
Let's start on the positive side:
1. The conditions for the creation of their worlds and the realization of their fantasies, which man hardly realizes in life.
2. Artificial intelligence and neural networks. This is a huge leap in technology that will make life easier for more than one generation after us.
3. Information that is available to everyone without restrictions on age, intelligence, hobbies, etc.
4. Stress relief and relaxation
5. Tools for honing skills in creativity (for example, a graphic tablet - drawing)
6. Games, this is an entire industry that allows people to enjoy the beautiful creations of humanity in a more interactive way. (music, sculpture, animation, literature, etc.)
7. You can provide your services, or use them without leaving your home.
8. Huge time savings that go into the daily routine
Now about the negative aspects of technology:
1. People are able to exploit technology to harm other innocent people.
2. Using technology, people can poison the lives of others.
3. Using technology, terrorists are recruited (not only through technology, this is one of the means of recruitment)
4. The real world goes blank before what a person can create in an independent technology environment. A person realizes that everything is not so colorful as cheerful people tell, he understands the horrors of this world and closes himself in not wanting to see it.
5. A person is lazy without technology.
6. Total surveillance of the population. You can see this on advertising that Google and other companies offer you. Also, having carefully examined your profile, you can see what you were listening to. You can disable these functions, but it’s scary to realize that you are an experimental rabbit, and you yourself agreed to this.
7. Political propaganda (for example: news on television, various programs controlled by the government)
8. Various health problems due to a sedentary lifestyle and improper sleep patterns.