How Does Technology Affect Us and The Environment?
We live in a world where if you are
without internet, there is an apocalypse, or when you forget your cell-phones,
computers, tablet chargers at home or you lose them, is like you were slowly dying.
These attitudes make me wonder, and it is, how does technology affect us and
the environment?
It is supposed that the humanity survived
through the years without internet (since it appeared in the modern age),
despite that, the creation of the wheel started what we know as technology,
which means, something created by humans with a certain function, like the pulley,
that was created to either rise or lower big or heavy things. That prior mentioned is one of the
inventions that revolutionized the world, this is actually used in cranes, construction
of the modern skyscrapers, and towers.
The metallurgy was another of these
inventions that changed the world, or well the war, and dragged the humanity
to the expansion and conquest of new territories, creating kingdoms and new languages we know till now.
Taking this into account, I can infer that
the technology doesn’t just mean the internet, it means the creation of
inventions that changed the history of humanity, this meaning that all we see
that is created by humans is technology, from the skateboard to the bicycle,
from the oven to the refrigerator, from the plane to the rocket, or how a
simple feather with black ink became, with some ingenuity, what we know as pen. All these inventions
had been created by open-minded people.
But, how did they affect the
environment? Easy, they need to fight nature and its laws, this can cause a big
disaster for the simple reason that nature can’t be changed or it was what we used to think years ago. Through technology now we can create the illusion of a
water-fall up stream, or create buildings that remain intact after an
earthquake.
This drags me into a conclusion, we need
technology,
because this means progress; in other words, the humanity hasn’t
created what we know now if they hadn’t invented the old creations that are nowadays on museums, or what important Scientifics, like Isaac Newton, discovered The Gravity Law, or Einstein, who discovered the nuclear
reaction (practically creating nuclear bombs) also he discovered part of the
atomic activity.
The perfect example of revolutionary inventions, have you
dreamed to fly with and like birds, well, it is possible, why? It is because
humans created what we know as planes, this was made up just by a pair of brothers,
are you bored of walking around or going on “horse”? Well, thankfully humanity
created the car too, this one functions thanks to the combustion of the fuel, this
creating mechanic movements.
But, wait! what about the modern watch?, this in the past
was just a stick on the floor, thanks to the shadows humans know what time it was. What about the light bulbs or candles?, what happens if I say that they were
just a branch?, so I can say, with all the inventions we have created we changed
how the world looks like too.
Since the start of the industrial revolution, technological advances are making global warming to increase, but in that time people didn’t know about
it or they didn’t care of it; however, wait! what is happening now?, global warming is still present as the factories release lots of pollutants and contaminate the environment. This creation, in a way or another, affects earth or the environment in a positive or negative way.
By David Estrada, Step 8 Yellow.
