ARTICLE WRITING ON TECHNOLOGY FOR BETTER LIFE (350-400 word)
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Technology
tries to make an improved product, or service using a more suitable method or
substance or law. Technology is based on sciences
and depends on engineering to come to people. The aim is always to
improve the quality and usability of the product and decrease the cost of the
product or service. A technology that is not yet feasible, necessary or
economical at present, will perhaps be feasible and economical later in future.
People live in societies. Due to individual and
collective desires and due to natural processes of evolution of cultures, there
is a steady progress towards an improved life at all levels in the
society. The standard of living, products and services used and quality
of life steadily improves.
Technology is a standardized method of
realizing a formula using a class of materials, and a particular technique
related to precision or production. Suppose a particular technology is employed
in manufacturing & engineering of electricity generation or distribution.
If a new semiconductor material better than Silicon is found, or, a more
precise way of making a more complex electronic chip is known, then using that
will be the new technology. Coal based heating in electric power
generation plant uses traditional technology. Atomic power plants use a
more advanced nuclear fission process based method to heat water. So
there is a leap in technology to generate a long term based safer, cheaper
electric power. The hazards posed by newer technology are problems that advanced
technologies have to solve.
The manufactured products are always meant for the people in the
society or for the top rich and creamy layer of the society. The people
accept the product and its technology or reject it depending on convenience of
use and cost. Then technology is improved to bring another product to
satisfy the needs of the people.
When people used to burn coal and wood for cooking in
kitchen, there were many problems. New technologies brought in LPG
stoves, Biogas based heating, electric stoves, electric cookers, microwave
ovens and solar cookers. Each product utilizes a new technology (method,
raw material, design) and gives better service at higher
efficiency, convenience, at lower cost to the people, than the earlier
technology. This is what we mean by technology for people.
Reaching people through its offices and
providing its services to people became difficult for the government as the
population and problems increased. Using computers, Internet,
telecommunications, centralized service providing stations, any time e-services
have made the traditional government as e-government. This
has been possible through over a period of time.
Improvements in medical diagnosis and treatments
have been made through many generations of technology. A disease that
used to take months to diagnose and cure are now diagnosed and cured within
hours or days.
The facility of communication with relations
and friends was difficult, time consuming and depended on weather and on other
people. Then postal services, fixed telephone, telegrams, were
available. Later cordless and mobile phones were available. Now a
more interactive web based services and phones are combined in one gadget.
Thus the main Responsibility of technology
towards modern society is to build better quality, more efficient, more
convenient, safer, more pleasing and more satisfying products or services in an
optimal way. Role of technology is to find
a new way to make products and methods cheaper and to make
available products which are only on paper. Also, the role extends to
mitigating hazards posed by employing new technologies.
As new technology brings in new products and services, the people
get used to it, and later they look for something more. So the role of
technology will be to search further again for newer technologies.
Thus technology brings in continuous improvement in the life
of people in a society through continuous improvement in products and services.