Impacting a World: How Technology Has Changed Our Lives

For the first time in history, In today's workforce we have four generations working together. Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen X, and millennials, each are very different in the way they grew up communicating, working, or entertained. Technology has changed our lives in quite a number of ways since its emergence. Today, there is some much technology to keep track of, it can be overwhelming at times to adapt. Although, all of this technology is bringing a better and easier life with it. There is not a single feature of our lives that technology has not changed. Technology is everywhere in everything we do. While technology does hurt us as a generation, it also creates an easier life. Technology affects people all over the world, positively and negatively, however, with the use of technology, productivity, education, and health becomes a lot better and easier.

Employees often blame the scarcity of technology in their workplace when productivity goals are not met. With that said, technology can increase our productivity. Technology can provide a widespread form of communication around the workplace. Communication throughout the workplace has long been relied on productivity. Technology can improve communication efficiency and productivity with the use of group chatting or messaging. Everyone in the workplace either has a phone or some kind of communicating device, so take the advantage of group chats. No more need for the rabbit chasing with the back and forth emails among workers or coworkers. Another use of technology to improve productivity is it can reduce the small daily tasks. Everyone does these small and time consuming tasks everyday. People probably don’t pay attention, but over time it adds up. Technology is useful in this, it helps increase productivity. It lowers the extra step(s) employees have to take, and lowers them getting stressed or aggravated to get these things done. There are plenty more ways technology can increase the productivity rate, it's not just limited to those. The faster and better the productivity, the less we have to do.

Needless to say, technology can also improve education. Long gone are the times of looking through an Encyclopedia. With it all at our fingertips, technology, learning is now boundless. Technology can even let one learn at their own pace. Although there are some people capable of learning quickly, what about the others that can’t? The others that need the time to absorb an idea. Not all of us are built like robots. One other good use of technology to help improve education is fun learning. Not only is technology helpful, it can also be fun. Students are getting more involved in so many learning tasks everyday, it’s unbelievable. There has been a great variety of education apps that allow students to learn in a playful manner. Technology isn’t just a powerful tool for education, it's a superpower.

Technology has brought so many remarkable changes to this world, including health. Technology in health has allowed a number of cures to be created and beneficial changes to be made in treatments, equipment, and medicine. With technology still expanding and upgrading in the health industry, it is relevant to consider where we are today in healthcare technology. Technology can collaborate with better treatments, equipment, and medicine. The better treatments have increased the quality of life of people who were suffering from long term illness. Along with technology came better equipment, it has allowed doctors to provide more and better care for their patient. The better the technology, the better the medicine. Technology in medicine has almost wiped the fear of some life-threatening illness. Not only does technology help with better health tools, it helps with the faster results too. It used to take weeks or months to get the results back, and sometimes it could be too late. With improved technology, it has come faster than ever to get results back. Healthcare is the fastest and patient-friendly it's ever been in history, and there's only more room to grow from here.

Others claim that technology can be harmful to us by causing eye strain and sleep problems. Technology can cause eye strain, causing people to get too cause for comfort, and headaches. However, technology doesn’t have to cause that terrible strain. Ways to prevent this strain is to keep a good lighting when on the computer or watching television. Another way to help with the strain is to take breaks, relax for a bit from that screen. Also keep the right distance from the screen, don’t be right up on the thing. Technology can put a hurt on sleep, but there are ways to reduce that. If it is needed to keep the phone in the same room when it is bedtime, turn off the notifications or turn it off. One other way is to put the device in a different room and leave it on charge in there. also, try throughout the day to not respond to emails, texts, or other notifications immediately.

While technology has a lot of negative effects on our generation the positive generally outweighs the bad. With technology productivity, education, and healthcare become more effective and easier to obtain. The world widespread of technology has helped productivity become more efficient and energy-saving. Technology has also improved and enhanced the education we receive as a country. And technology in healthcare has extended and developed to new heights in our generation. Technology helps us all in so many ways, to further delve into how helpful technology is, you must experience technology on your own, and use technology in your own life.