Technology: Pros or Cons?

Technology this is one of the products of the bright minds of scientists and inventors that had a great effect on our everyday life; from the moment we wake up in the morning up until we lay our backs in our comfortable bed at night.It had been a solution to almost all problems that concerned in many aspects of life, health, environment, education and lots of those aspects that need to be improved. and by the term called technology, there was a great improvement made for the best.
Scientists have developed a number of new inventions that helped and innovated the daily life of an individual be it on urban or rural areas.


In Education, lots of facts have been transmitted to the Internet-- a product of technology-- that we can use in our subjects that our teachers were giving us in school, like information about the heavenly bodies, English grammar, and how to solve a problem your assignment in Algebra. Google had also been the new encyclopedia for students, whenever someone asked " what is this word" someone would say " Look it up on Google" instead of saying "Go search for a dictionary."   funny how it became a habit but I, for one had the lazy attitude like that, even online tutorials had an appeal to those who wanted to learn for free, I had even tried a guitar lesson tutorial in Youtube that helped me in our variety show presentation. We could have a new stored knowledge by using the net.


In terms of Healthcare, technology had been a great help in curing a patient. As an evidence most of the  works done in the hospital and even in making the prescribed drugs that we take would not be successfully done without the help of technology, and recently, there were surgical operations that  are computer manipulated that gave an ease to the pain of the patient.


The Environment has been also partly developed by technology, sightings of fossil remains of Dinosaurs who had been extinct a billion years ago was discovered. The sources of energies had never been discovered without the use of technology thus, we could not have a bright side at night without those lamp posts that was powered by energy companies through technology .


But does technology takes always the positive side? What about its Disadvantages? Do we see it? Or are we blinded because of the pleasure that we get from it?


We need to know it by now. the reason? Maybe we have misinterpreted the real purpose of scientists in sharing the public their masterpiece . For instance like we people usually do. We tend to be fascinated easily and we like it to be a part of our daily life like we have it since birth and our day wouldn't be complete if we can't see or use it in a day.We used the technology  excessively that it could be called abusive. We tend to use it even when it is unnecessary, and the result?  Our innocent act was slowly affecting our community. Well to be honest, not only the community but also mother nature.


Flash floods, Typhoons, Global warming, these are one of the few destructive upshots that our little perversion had led. Even in our locality, we can sight some examples for that. The flashflood that happened in Matina, Davao City, the landslide in Valencia bukidnon and overflow of Rio grande de Mindanao that destroyed properties and killed a number of persons.


The majestic mountains that reaches high above the ground were bit-by-bit sliced up to make a benefit from those minerals contained in them, for example copper and silver that are used in telephone wires and other appliances -- from simple blasting to high-tech drilling---. Sometimes, tunnels were built to extract natural treasures  and to do that, chemicals were used -again from from grinding to cocktail of chemicals--, and we have no idea how great it would affect our environment. It could eventually turn our Blue and crystal clear waters into dark, as the ravens' color.  Where is now the Paradise that we inherit?  will that only remain in the Bible?


All of those had happened not because nature wanted to crack a joke or something on people, but for us to realize that we should minimize our possession over material things. I am not saying that we should not patronize the technological products and practices, but let us also consider both the Advantage and Disadvantages of that " technology".