Nowadays no one can imagine life without technology. It is everywhere. At home, work, school, university, shops and even in the yard. Before this growing technology century, people were smarter and not as lazy as now. They didn’t know anything about internet, mobile phones or washing machines. They did use candles to light up the house, books to search for information, letters to communicate and fireplaces to heat their food.
But what is going on now? People are very different. My grandparents always remind me of those ages, they say that it was easier to live then. But whyyy? They don’t need dishwasher or computer? They don’t want to grow with technology? Yeah, they know how to do everything without “smart” phones, not like us. We can’t live without internet, we need to have the newest technology, we don’t like to go to libraries to take some book – everything is on the internet. Why do we need to buy a book, if we can download it? Why we do need to wash our dishes by hands, if we can put them in a dishwasher? Why we need to follow these technologies?
The main answer to all those questions is that we are technology kids. We grew up with it; we can’t imagine our lives without it. We need to call our friends on phone, because we don’t like to write a letter – it is faster way to communicate. Everyone have a computer, we can use it for everything, for playing, searching for information, writing these blogs. But how it would be if we would have one day to be without any technology, like people, who lived before Christ?
I can imagine my day without it, it would be like: wake up in the morning, light up a candle, going to the river to wash myself. After, going home to put some clothes (I imagine some fur or leather piece which is like a dress), shoes, which look like leather bags and going to university. Going on feet – they didn’t have any tram then (ha ha). University would be like a big room with candles everywhere and few desks with chairs. Many students who are listening to teacher, writing everything on paper and reading books. Yeah, it would be impossible without a computer, because at our lectures we need to have computer to search for information, to take notes and to do our homeworks.. so my “day without technology” ends, because I can not imagine the evening without technology..
But in reality, if there would be no new technology for one day, even for one hour, it would be the third world war, I think, because people are addictive to it. Mostly everyone knows what is “apple” and “Microsoft”, “Samsung” and “nikon”, we are following the technology way, we are like those marionettes, which are addictive to their strings, we are addictive to technology.
I think, that we need technology, we need to be followers, but, also, we need to know how it was without it and how to use it responsibly.
