The Current Technology In Our Society

We are currently living a great information revolution without realizing and without fully knowing
the technology that surrounds us. New changes mean that we have to constantly update ourselves
in knowledge related to new technologies.

People, both those who are studying and those who have already completed their learning stage,
have an obligation to know more and more about the functioning of new technologies. Why ?,
really if we want to compete in a future in a labor market like in which we are today is essential to
be updated.

We have, what's more, we need to develop new capabilities to be able to "compete" in the labor
market, in addition to learning to handle different technological equipment since these are part of
our daily life.

The new technologies, related to our environment, are streamlining, optimizing and perfecting
some activities that we carry out in our day to day life. Communication today is something that has
advanced a lot, a communication that is much faster than before. An example of current
communication, specifically through the Internet, in the case of transmitting messages, images,
videos and all kinds of documents from different parts of the world during the 24 hours a day is
something that has permanently displaced the sending of documents by other means, such as the
conventional postal service.

The new electronic "apparatuses", of which we are constantly surrounded, allow us to perform
tasks that were done manually, yes, in a more agile and efficient way.

Technology plays a very important role in the world from the moment you create an innovative
"something" that we all want to have as soon as possible. We all want to be fashionable and boast
of having the latest in the market.

An example of this competitiveness to have the best of the market are mobile phones, something
that is not only the phone itself, but also all the accessories that improve, either in performance or
aesthetics, our mobile. In this case, in addition to requiring a knowledge update to understand
each and every one of the functions that our new phone contains, it is necessary to have a large
enough pocket to face the costs of having a technology of these characteristics. Although the
development and expansion of this technology continues to be uneven in different countries of
the world, the truth is that there are more devices than people on our planet. And what only 5
years ago was a smart mobile phone (smartphone), today is a real personal computer in which the
call function has been in an absolutely secondary field.

Some Android users and other operating systems such as Windows Phone, Blackberry or Iphone,
mounted in anger in 2014 upon receiving a notification from the company that owns the
WhatsApp application (currently owned by Facebook) with a warning message warning that their
license free would expire and to continue using it would be necessary to make an economic
outlay, not very high, 0.99 cents, but that generated a real earthquake that, fortunately, with the
passage of time has been a mere anecdote.

However, if it was the tip of the iceberg of that technology that was here to stay, in which in many
cases, the product was the user, his data specifically. Coinciding with this mentalization by users,
in recent years the leading technology companies have managed, in very specific cases, to reverse
the policy of 'free total internet'. Spotify, AppleMusic, Amazon Prime, opened the way for users to
start giving value to 'micropayments' for services they could get for free through illegal downloads
but with much more effort.

In addition to making monthly payments to our mobile phone companies for services of calls,
messages, Internet connection "without limit", nowadays we can afford to pay for applications
that offer a service equal to what we get for free with download programs, only with access to the
main markets of applications such as Google Play or Apple Store.

In general terms, technology has brought great benefits to humanity. Its main role is to create an
improvement of tools and accessories adapted to users to facilitate and save effort and, above all,
time in our daily lives.

Nowadays technology has had an impact that has affected positively and negatively in our society,
but it is something indispensable for all. The future is drawn, according to all indications,
conditioned by the 'internet of things', this new universe of devices, managed by a central one,
which will allow the interconnection between our houses, our cars, etc.

3D printing, nanotechnology, car sharing, are terms and utilities or services that are now in the
making but have come to stay in this new society absolutely conditioned by technology. And
around the corner, in 2020, all the big technological giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook,
Microsoft, will be putting on the market the new virtual assistants, which will also allow a voice
connection with other devices that avoid even reaching touch the screen of our mobile, that
device that now seems to us that it serves for everything.

Technological inventions in one way or another have improved our quality of life, but the most
important thing is that together with this technological development the mentality of millions of
people has changed, perhaps with a new vision of the world, no longer hoarding ideas and
knowledge, but to share them and real

The technological development, in the end, is the fundamental engine of progress in our society
and this will always depend on the use and manipulation that we provide. That is why the society
itself is called to have a more active and committed participation with its development and
generalized impact.