How the problem of dependence on technology be solve?
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1. Anxiety and depression. The excessive use of mobile devices has been linked to anxiety and depression, as well as other mental health problems. This could be explained by a variety of influences. For example, the constant bombardment of news and information can leave you feeling numb to the real world, and being obsessed with digital interactions can leave you deprived of real-life relationships.
2. Impatience. Technology has also made us impatient. Knowing that most people have 24/7 access to their social media messages or email inboxes makes us expect replies within a few minutes. Being able to access articles on any subject makes us less tolerant of anything that takes more than a few minutes to learn or master.
3. Memory. Studies show that avid use of smartphones to take photos, videos, or notes can impair our memory. The exact mechanism at work here isn’t known, but it’s hypothesized that because our minds recognize that the information is being stored elsewhere, it’s less important for us to remember it—so we don’t dedicate the mental resources to remembering it. In other words, you know you can always call up a list of actors in a specific movie on IMDB, so you never bother committing that cast list to memory.
4. Addiction. While the exact definition and legitimacy of “technology addiction” is debated, it’s clear that for some people, technological dependence can become so extreme that it causes severe anxiety whenever technology is inaccessible. This may manifest as an addiction to social media, gaming, porn, or any number of other tech-rooted engagements. Do note that technological addition is an extreme version of the problem; just because you get the urge to check your phone for notifications on a regular basis doesn’t mean you’re addicted to it.
5. Skills. Using a smartphone or other technology regularly to replace or enhance a skill may also gradually reduce our ability to access that skill. For example, if you use a smartphone to navigate to locations in your city, you may never learn to read a map or navigate without the aid of a GPS device.
Explanation:
We also need to consider the role that our technological dependence could have on innovation, and the progression of our societal capabilities. If we become wholly dependent on certain types of technology, to the point where we’re unable to live comfortably without them, we pigeonhole ourselves into using variations of that technology.
For example, if we become too dependent on smartphones, our line of technological progression will, for an extended period of time, force us to come up with smaller, faster, and more convenient smartphones, rather than innovating something entirely novel.
Take, for example, an anecdote from history; in 1894, people relied on horses for transportation, with metropolitan areas boasting 50,000 or more horses. All those horses came with problems, such as manure, horse corpses, diseases, and speed problems. Relying on straightforward innovation, people would have continued coming up with better ways to manage horses, such as automated systems for cleaning manure or training programs to make horses faster—rather than inventing the automobile (which is what ultimately transpired).
In other words, depending too much on one of today’s technologies blinds us to future, better technologies.