Argumentative Essay About Technology

Abstract
Nowadays, new technology becomes one of the most popular things that help people to solve their
problems in the easiest way and facility their life. Many people contradict the positive and negative
effect of this new technology this research paper talk about the negative effect of new technology. The
objective of this term paper is to award people about the negative, dangerous and harmful effects of
this new technology by lighting on the negative effect of new technology. Data was collected from six
articles that show the unhealthy technology, the unsafety of technology, and addiction to this new
technology.

Keywords:

new technology, applications, addiction, unhealthy, unsafe.

Is this New Technology Ruining the Life of People?

Introduction

In the last few years, smartphone, their application, game, and other new technologies become one of
the most important things in the life of people, it is used for different things and by people of different
ages. 'Science now makes all things possible . . . But it does not thereby make all possible things
desirable.'(Mumford, 2013, p.1). The Internet is one of these new technology tool and not the only one
as people said. Technology is the use of science to eliminate stress and solve problems. Technology
is related to every work and things in our lives in a different way. The impact of technology on people
depends on the way that they use it. The rate of the effect of this technology in people life beings
relies upon the way that they use it and the time that they lose in using it. However, technology has
relied upon everything we do, so living without technology is a problem. In the last few years, human
beings turn out to be more attached and more reliant on this technology and that can increase the
percentage of being addicted to it, they can't manage their utilization of it. Although this new
technology has helped us in many ways and solved problems in the easiest way, humans must be
conscious of the hazardous facts of present-day science as digital reality, augmented reality, digital
drugs, and others.

Being Unhealthy!
The first reason is unhealthy technology, one of the most dangerous types of technology that shows
that new technology kills us by affecting health and life. Most of these new technologies have an
impact on people’s existence in many ways. Virtual reality has a terrible effect on our life. In the article
entitled “Are Virtual Reality Headsets Safe for Eyes?” the writer Mukamal (2017) shows that “Virtual
reality is one of the different types of technology that has a terrible effect on people's life”. This virtual
reality has a big effect in transporting us to different worlds like mars, in space, and other places. Most
families and people use virtual reality existing in new games and think that this is a normal thing, but
using this technology for a long time has a negative effect on the eyes because in using this
technology all the time we are focusing on the screen and we tend our eyes blink less in the normal
life and that can cause damage in our eye and by the time it can transform for blindness. At the same
time, virtual reality has a negative effect on the mind. When people use this virtual reality and see the
different photos and motions that appear it will reflect signals from the eye to the brain that cause
trouble in balance and dizziness. In addition, spending a long time in virtual reality and in specific
games that contain violent violence, murder and torture, again and again, increases the tension and
headache, and lack of focus. Many doctors said that the large percentage of people who had
psychological diseases, their problem is caused by virtual reality in new technology. The headaches
and dizziness problems with the people who use his new technology are the same as a person who
travels from a place with a high air level to another place with a low air level. A doctor in the scientific
research center said that when a person plays games with high levels of violence like “counter strike “
and killing people and see violence, that makes him don’t care about the crime that happens in real
life, which is very dangerous. In summary, that makes us consider new technology unhealthy and
dangerous.

Being Unsafe!
The second reason that shows that modern technology ruin people's life is that this modern
technology is unsafe and puts people’s safety at risk and increase the number of crimes. The
augmented reality in new technology is one the most important thing that make people at risk and put
them in dangerous situations. “Pokémon go” one of the most popular games is an example of an
augmented reality app that affects a person’s life and put it at risk. According to the article entitled
“Pokémon Go or Pokémon No?” written by Ayers (2016), the augmented reality game “Pokémon Go”
put players in a dangerous situation and put their lives at risk. Waste of time and money is one of the
negative effects of this game. Large numbers of crimes, accidents ad victims are caused by this game.
The concept of this game is to look for Pokémon and catch them. It’s a very nice game, but our life
and safety are more important. This game affects people's life and brain. A large number of accidents
and traffic violations are caused by this game. For instance, last year in Germany a boy 10 years old
spent his life catching a Pokémon on the railway when the train passed and hit him. After this
dangerous accident, the family of this boy forms an association for awareness of the negative effect of
this game and advised parents to protect their children from this unsafe technology. After this problem
and the harmful time that this parent lives after died of their children, they consist this association to
instruct other parents to prevent them from falling into the same problem and losing their children. In
addition, after the investigation that the FBI makes, they said that this application is used by criminals
to draw their victims to a secluded place to kill them. Furthermore, social media is one of the other
new technology that affects a person’s privacy. According to the article entitled “Rhetoric, Social
Media, and Privacy”, written by Faris (2012), the most important danger caused by social media are
that it appears locations of users based on service. Social media like snap, Twitter, and others show
the location of users. The American application 'The nearby girls' is one of these unsafe technology
his concept is a map that are related to social media that that search in social media about photo and
information about the girls that he detected and show all photo and information to the user of this
application. so girls by using social media and putting their photo and information and location in it,
facilitate the use of this application to know all information about them. This type of application
increases the number of crimes and the number of sexually assaulted and it facilitates criminals to
know the location of victims wherever they are, to attack them at the appropriate time. In brief,
unsafety is one of the other dangerous effects of new technology.

Being Addicted!
The third reason that shows that new technology is dangerous and ruins life is the addiction to it. The
digital drug is caused by the uncontrolled usage of this new technology. This type of new technology
'digital drug' cause the rotor and the lack of balance by affecting the brain of the user. In the article
entitled “Are Digital Drugs” written by Rehab (2013), the author mansion that we have many types of
digital drugs and they can be presented in different ways by music that affects the brain, video games,
and many other ways.This digital drug is discovered by 'Heinrich Wilhelm' in '1839'. This music drug
when it’s heard by a person will affect his brain by the message that the brain receives from the ears.
This music is to change the way of thinking and controlling our brain. The user will become like a
person who sniffs cocaine or another type of tangible drug. The object of this drug is to of this music
drugs is to transport users to the unconscious state, specifically for those who had large worries and a
problem in their minds and suffer from liver problems. For instance, by listening to these tones of
music, people become lose control and become very angry, and then their condition develops to turn
into physical diseases and pains in the body organs. As technology became available everywhere and
to everyone, that makes children riskier to this digital drug. Another type of technology that has the
same effect as digital drugs is the cell phone. According to the article “Watch out: Cell phones can be
addictive” written by Kowalski (2014), 'university students use cell phones from 8 to 10 hours in the
day”. Cell phones work in the same way as digital drugs, so when people use these cell phones
excessively and without control, they will become addicted to them. The studies and the scientific
research proved that cell phones have the same effect as digital drugs. Tension is one of the
manifestations that appear on the face of people when their telephone is off or their battery is finished.
Addiction to cell phones decreases the relation and communication with family and parents and that
leads to the destruction of the family. Addiction appears specifically in those who use social media like
Twitter and Facebook, which lose all their time in following news and photos. To summarize, addiction
is one of the most dangerous effects of new technology.

Technology Important in Learning

On the other hand, the opponent shows that new technology is very helpful and very important in
improving education. According to the study by Ambuko (2008), there are many types of new
technology that help students in education and teacher in teaching. This technology is many and some
of this technology are the calculator, new software, and others. “Challenges and benefits of using
scientific calculators in the teaching and learning of Mathematics in secondary school education” by
'Ochanda and Indoshi'(2011), show that new technology and calculator in specific has many positive
reflections on education. The calculator is a very important part of education it helps students in all
their education life. In addition, Roberts shows that a calculator is very important in solving equating
and problems and it’s very helpful in showing to the students the relationship between equation and
graph, and it helps students to check their answers after finishing calculating. Many studies show that
a calculator is very important in showing students the relation between numbers and graphs and in
solving matrices and other types of complex equations (Hunter, 1994; McCoy, 1996; Azita, 1999). So
calculator is very important in improving life education of students. In contrast, the calculator is very
dangerous because it gives the students the solution to a problem without the student thinking about
how to solve it, and that destruct the brain of the student and helps him to become lazy. In the book
that shows the negative effect of calculators “Impacts of Using Calculators in Learning Mathematics”
written by 'Zheng(2011)', the author talks about the negative effect of new technology has many
disadvantages such as when students used excessively calculators he destroys his intellectual side
because he doesn't use his skill to think and solve problems.as the calculator is invented then-new
education depends on it so student can't learn without a calculator, and when education becomes
dependent to calculator, student become lazy because he didn't improve their skill only put equation
and number as input in the calculator and the output is his solution. in addition the new calculator that
calculate the shear stress and strain in a structural building by input the width and length of beams
and the output is a diagram that represents the variation of strain in the function of stress and that is
very dangerous because anyone can use this calculator and that eliminates the role of civil
engineering.

Conclusion and Recommendation

In conclusion, new technology helped us with many problems and it has many positive effects that
improve our lives and make them easier. On the other hand, many types of technology have a harmful
effect on a person’s life and lead to destruct their life. Therefore, new technology has a negative effect
on our health by causing eye problems and blindness, and problems with our balance. In addition, this
technology is unsafe and it has a negative effect on a person’s life safety because it allows terrorists,
and predators to know all information about the place of the victim, which will facilitate him to kill them
which is very dangerous for humans life. Also, technology has harmful to people's lives and that is
shown by being addicted to it, after affecting our mental and brain. It’s very important to use
technology to solve the problem in the easiest way, but we should know the limit of this technology
and its negative effect before using it. Parents have the main role in saving their children from the
negative effect of this technology by determining the time for their children in using this technology.
Government should put rules and sanctions on people who produce this digital drug to save the life of
our children from the negative effect of his technology. In addition, we should raise awareness about
this digital drug in school and in society to prevent people from falling into the traps of this technology.

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