how the convergence of technology has influenced our society
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In the world of growing technological advancements, we have succeeded in improving our lifestyle and way of living but has failed at many points. Though today we have the accessibility to everything but this has also encouraged the growth of theft. The presence of the internet and accessibility to it also makes theft easy. Copying things from the internet and claiming it to be theirs is one of the negative effects of technology. Creativity becomes vulnerable when technology serves as a medium of threat. Apart from serving a platform and defining a way to explore creativity, technology restricts the way of exploration.
Although there has been the maximum development of mankind because of the presence and invention of science at the same time, we cannot deny the fact that it has also created stupendous, insolvable problems for mankind. The problem of pollution, lack of a place to live in, the problems of natural and man-made calamities have all been a side effect of science and technology. On one hand, it has lead to the development of the world and has enabled researches about the world and mankind and on the other hand, it had also lead mankind to fall prey to it.
The growing world towards the market of digitalization has negative impacts on the youth of the present days. Parents today provide their children with their own mobile phones and tabs which exposes them to the world of the internet. This exposure is for some reasons have a positive effect but on the other hand, has many negative effects as well. The youth today invests more than half of their time in social media and playing games online. This has reduced their productivity and has made the youth to a mere captive in the hands of the internet.
In recent years there has been an immense change in the way the children use to do for their recreation. Conventional outdoor games have been replaced by mobiles phones and the games on the computer. This has made the children less social in the real world and more active in the virtual world. The school going students are so much addicted towards the use of the mobile phones that there have been many cases of the accidents. The internet provides all types of information and sources which needs to be filtered according to the age. This becomes one of the barriers in its usage. Because of the internet, there has been an increase in the system of virtual friendship. Children limit their exposure only till the world of virtuality and are remain unaware of the reality. Also has led to an increase in the eyesight problem of the children at an early age as well. More and more use of the social platform for entertainment also enables the early exposure of the children at the things which their age need not go through. Using mobile phones during driving is one of the major reason why accidents are very prominent today. One should always stay calm while driving and not use mobile phones while driving. Hence, this is the demand of the hour to look into the issue at the earliest.