The Benefits of Technology

       Do you realize that technology has been governing your daily lives? You use your hand phone to call your friends, car to travel to the mall, and laptop to do your homework or play some games. Meanwhile, technology also spreads its effects throughout the entire world. No matter where you go, technology will be there. Why it is so ubiquitous? Technology has countless wonderful benefits for humans’ life in many fields, such as: education, transportation, and communication. Thus, technology is the main pillar that supports the humans’ activity on earth; without it, the world will collapse.

        Technology plays a major role on the educational field. It helps not only the students to learn faster but also the educators – teacher, instructor, lecturer, etc. – to teach easier. For instance, according to the United States Research Center, computers always present in every single classroom in most major schools and computers can be used to project slide shows. Using the slide shows, students could study faster since it provides graphical format and sometimes audio format that can aid the students to understand better. Similarly, by utilizing slide shows, educators will have a lighter job since the students will understand easier and much faster. Hence, teaching and learning will be fun and easy because of the implication of technology.

        Furthermore, technology also improves the transportation field. In the old days, people had to walk or ride a bicycle to reach their destinations. However, it is horrible since it will be so tiring and costs a huge amount of time. Henceforth, a car and similar vehicles were invented using the enhancement of technology. The newer vehicles are much more effectual, time-saving, and safer. Car can travel in average speed of sixty kilometer per hour while the average speed of walking is five kilometer per hour; so, people can reach your destination quicker. Moreover, passengers are also protected inside the car due to its thick metallic body and the presence of airbags; so, it is ultimately safer. In addition, as a passenger, you could hop into the car and do nothing or sleep and the driver will drive the car to your desired place. Therefore, by the improvement of technology in the transportation field, going somewhere is safer, quicker, and more efficient.

        Nevertheless, technology also plays vital parts in the development of communication between people. Before telephone was invented, people had to write letters to communicate to their far away friends or relatives. However, it was so difficult due to a lot of disadvantages. Its major disadvantages are it is time consuming, it is liable be stolen, it can be affected by natural effect (rain, dirt, etc.) which make it unreadable, and it can dispatched to a wrong destination. As an example, Jonathan wants to inform Antonio concerning the writing assessment at school; so he must write it on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, put stamp on it, and mail it. Then, the postal worker takes the letter and delivers it to the receiver, however, if the destination is unreadable because it is soaked, covered in dirt, or ripped off, the postal worker will deliver it back to the sender. Besides, there are above 50% of mail actually fails to be delivered in Indonesia according to the Indonesian Intelligence Agency. Based on that example, it can be concluded that in the old days, communicating was really hard. On the contrary, technology has developed an easier way of communication which is by utilizing a hand phone device. Within the hand phone, there are features to call, text, or email someone. Thus, in a few seconds people could talk or chat to each other and receive the text about the information required in an electronic form in just a few clicks. Therefore, by implementing technology in the communication field, transfer of information has become as easy as taking a walk in a park.

        On the contrary, technology also has a minor detriment. The detriment is people can use it as a media to hurt, defame, or threaten other people. For instance, there are a lot of cyber bullying cases happening around the world and one particular example is from puresight.com where a minor kill himself since he cannot bear it anymore. Cyber-bullying is when a misanthrope person uses his or her anonymous profile over the internet to threaten or hurt others. It could lead to something minor like depressions but it can also lead to something major such as suicide for the ridiculed person such as the teen from puresight.com. On the other hand, it should not be a worry anymore. Nowadays, computer programmers have developed a program that will countermand the threatening comments or posts around the internet if detected. Likewise, there is also an ip-address tracker program which will hunt down the bully and the law enforcers will bring him or her down to justice. As an example there is a website to prevent cyber bullying called http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying. Therefore, the existence of cyber bullying is currently diminishing and it should not be a worry anymore.

        Accordingly, technology will always be there whenever you go since it has many outstanding benefits for the human race. Technology has become the ‘god’ of the new world; without technology, the world will crumble to pieces.