Down The Generations
With every generation, people make new discoveries, make advances forward in technology, and are always finding new ways to make life easier. But as more and more generations pass by, we become more dependent on technology and the social acceptance of certain expressions and ideas change.
During my parents time, roughly 20 years ago, the concepts in technology were still the same, but it was way more basic. People couldn't afford mobile phones and not many people could afford a computer. The internet was not widely used and there wasn't much information on it either. In my grandparents time, the idea of the computer was not even conceived. They had house phones, but even then, not that many people had house phones either. People did not use machinery as much to do work, rather, they had more manual labor during those times.
In the generation I'm growing up in, we are more dependent on machines to do our work for us than the previous generations were. In a way, that's good because it reduces our workload and not as many people go home suffering from fatigue. In a another way, its bad that we depend on technology so much because what if there comes a day where we cannot use machines anymore due to lack of resources? We wouldn't know how to do manual labor because we would have forgotten how to do it. Our dependency on machines also makes us lazy and we don't see the value in physical labor anymore. We won't be able to take pride in our work anymore because the idea of taking pride in your own work will be lost eventually.
Another way that my generation is different from the past two generations is that we have created new medicines for many diseases many suffer from. A way that is a good change is that many don't have to worry about getting sick and dying from illnesses that used to be deadly, such as the flu. A way that us creating new cures for diseases can be seen as a bad thing is that new, deadlier strains of viruses come up. As we create these new cures, we become more dependent on them and our immune systems get weaker. This is bad because our immune systems are becoming weak and new strains of deadly viruses and bacteria are coming up.
During my parents time, roughly 20 years ago, the concepts in technology were still the same, but it was way more basic. People couldn't afford mobile phones and not many people could afford a computer. The internet was not widely used and there wasn't much information on it either. In my grandparents time, the idea of the computer was not even conceived. They had house phones, but even then, not that many people had house phones either. People did not use machinery as much to do work, rather, they had more manual labor during those times.
In the generation I'm growing up in, we are more dependent on machines to do our work for us than the previous generations were. In a way, that's good because it reduces our workload and not as many people go home suffering from fatigue. In a another way, its bad that we depend on technology so much because what if there comes a day where we cannot use machines anymore due to lack of resources? We wouldn't know how to do manual labor because we would have forgotten how to do it. Our dependency on machines also makes us lazy and we don't see the value in physical labor anymore. We won't be able to take pride in our work anymore because the idea of taking pride in your own work will be lost eventually.
Another way that my generation is different from the past two generations is that we have created new medicines for many diseases many suffer from. A way that is a good change is that many don't have to worry about getting sick and dying from illnesses that used to be deadly, such as the flu. A way that us creating new cures for diseases can be seen as a bad thing is that new, deadlier strains of viruses come up. As we create these new cures, we become more dependent on them and our immune systems get weaker. This is bad because our immune systems are becoming weak and new strains of deadly viruses and bacteria are coming up.
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