The more technology improves, the harder people have to work

Points against

Technology improves efficiency lessening the work load

Technology lessens the amount of work to be that need to be done by people. For example, when a country adopts Biometric Voters Registration and voting technology, it reduces the burden of manual registration and voting workload. Paper work is reduced and the electoral officials will not tire perusing many handbooks in search of names amongst thousands of others. According to (Donald 9), biometric identifies one by what he/she has, for example the fingerprints or the iris of the eye can act as passwords.

Technology increase the speed of access to information

With technology, access to certain information becomes easy. For instance, use of cell phones has reduced the distance of accessing information. People can communicate in real time and transact businesses. According to (Showstack 148), people with chronic conditions people can access personal health information and make choice. This can happen without having to travel to the hospitals. Information can be downloaded from computers or be sent to them via short message services. It has also become easy and possible for people to access large chunks of information within a short time. An example is the use of computer based technology in organization that has replaced the manual search and filing system.

Technology improves the speed of work

Technology has increased the speed of work. This has improved from the ancient times. Use of cars, motorbikes and airplanes has increased the speed of travelling hence people reach their destinations without much effort. The engine technology has therefore lessened the efforts that people had to put on walking or running to their destinations. Industrial work also used to be manual but technology has increased the speed of production with less efforts. Industrial workers used to work hard to achieve certain productions manually, but with the coming of machine technology the same and even more production is achieved with little efforts.

Technology improves security

According to (Tirop and Krause 1), technology can be used to control permission to access according to value of information and individual’s authority. Certain individuals are given passwords that access certain places for example in banks and military arsons. This technology has prevented would be crimes from happening as criminals are barred from accessing certain areas and information. For instead of having a watchman at the doors of the banks and businesses, alarms and cctv’s technologies have been installed. Technology can be used to identify any looming type of problem even before it turns severe. This has helped doctors’ diagnose diseases at early stages. This has lessened human effort which would have been required to watch over these installations.

Less mistakes and errors.

Technology reduces chances of human errors and mistakes. For instance in computer technology, firewalls guide the users in order to prevent them from making unnecessary mistakes. Therefore, one can neither make a mistake of sending a message nor money to the wrong person, or waste time reading a message that got in their inbox by mistake. According to (Zwicky 102), firewalls act as restrictors to flow of certain networks inform of gateways. Mistakes that humans make are therefore reduced or completely eliminated. The efforts and hard work that man would therefore use to repeat and correct the mistake is therefore taken care of hence less energy is likely to be used.

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People have to work hard to prevent online fraud

Technology comes with various drawbacks. One of such is the fraudsters and imposters who steal credit card details and use it for online transactions. Many people have fallen victims of this technology. This has therefore led to improved hard work by people to invent ways of preventing such crimes. More efforts to detect criminals online are therefore necessary. People have also to store their credit cards safely to prevent any access by such people. This means people have to work harder.

People depend too much on expensive technology

With increased use of technology, people have become too much of dependants on it. People can barely do anything without the assistance of a machine or another gadget. This means that people have to work hard in order to be able to buy machines. Technology is expensive to buy, use and maintain. This means that people have to acquire finances necessary for them to use these technologies. If these people don’t get the required amount to install these machines then a lot of work may not be done. Technological devices have their prices rising each and every day due to competition. For example the prices of quality computers rise by day, new technologies make the previous ones less acceptable. This means that people have to work harder to acquire them.

Time to train people to use certain technology

Every technology has its new way of use. This therefore means that certain people have to be trained on how to use and maintain it. People have to work hard and acquire the necessary skills for the technology. Training the people will require more efforts on the trainers and the trainees. Time must be spent on this activity. For example the people had to be trained on how to use computers, a training that required some academic knowledge and time. This meant that people had o work hard and secure time for the training.

Diseases related to technology for example earache, headache and cancer

Technology has its evils too. Scientists have realized great correlation between the uses of certain technologies with certain diseases. According to (Deltour 1721), over use of mobile phones have been related to brain cancer. Cases of headaches and earache have also been associated with this technology. Loud music has also been associated with loss of hearing. This therefore means that people have to work hard to come up with methods as well as medicine to diagnose these diseases. Cancer has become more rampant in the world and it has been majorly been associated with modern technology. However, scientists are still working hard to realize better and efficient methods of treating it.

Competition

With technological improvement competition comes in for example for every new invention in the world there is always efforts to come up with a better one. Scientists spend most of their time in laboratories trying to come up with better technologies. Hospitals are advertising their services. According to (Foote 342), doctors have change interest from managing of patients to managing of costs and risks. A good example is the competition in the communication industry where companies are investing on inventors to come up with the best communication technology. The same competition has trickled down to the users where people are now grouped into certain classes according to the type of cell phone they use, the type of computers and even by the type of entertainment gadget they own.

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