Essay About Society People And Next Major Advances

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veryday in society people are making improvements. Today we are using cutting edge technology to improve every aspect of
our daily lives and in business professions. For instance in todays society the fields of Communication are constantly advancing and
more and more new ways to communicate are being invented.
Technology has helped increase the speed of communication and decrease its cost. However, at the same time it has caused people
to become more impersonal with each other. In earlier times the major form of communication was for people to visit each other and go
to public meeting places. One of the next major advances was the telephone. Due to the telephone people no longer went to the public
meeting places as often as they used to. As time goes on, new advances still allow people to contact and communicate with each
other more easily. These advances such as faxes, beepers, and email, although seemingly making life easier, each help to
decrease the earlier forms of communication.
In some businesses email is the main way of communication because its quick, they have record of the conversation, and
can almost access it anywhere.
People very often debate whether technology is good or bad. Many people believe that technology can only cause harm to their lives
and society, while many others strongly defend the technologies which have made their lives much more leisurely and enriching than
it could have been several hundred years ago. In my opinion, both of these views are correct to an extent, but I also believe that what
should be examined is not whether technology in its self is good or bad, but rather how we as humans use it.