Computers: workers or bosses?

 

How many hours do you spend on the computer every day? An average American adult spends 8 ½ hours of the day staring into the screens, and to be precise, 142.5 minutes daily in front of the computer. Why do people tend to spoil their health by hooking on to gadgets; computer, which will completely sabotage their lives just to earn some money? Don’t they realize that health is more valuable than the Blue Diamond or the computer itself?

Firstly, working people often give loads of excuses for them to stick on to their electronic devices. Electronic devices are helpful, but as Mark Twain quoted ‘too much is too bad’. Even though computers are used for educational fields, business purposes, and in banking sectors, it should be limited. Anything to some extent is good.  

Secondly, people use computer technology in hospitals for doing surgeries and to treat people. It also connects us to people throughout the world. Many people can use Google maps to direct them from place to place instead of using the paperback version of maps. When computer technology works for us and behave like workers then it is good but what if it doesn’t. What if computers think that they are the ‘bosses’ and start rebelling all our commands? Has that ever crossed your mind before?

Computer Technology has a massive impact on our private and public lives by using many social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. With these types of sites, many people can be tracked through the location on their phone and this can be very dangerous. People, especially youngsters, can be bullied, harassed, and brainwashed by social media. The robots are helpful in the medical field as long as they don’t break down, but if they do there will be delays in operating procedures, schedules will have a longer waiting list. In industry, computer technology is used by developing robots to assemble products in a short amount of time. This has led to unemployment as manual toil is kept to a minimum due to the robots being able to assemble products at a much faster speed than humans.

 Wonder what will happen if the computers in which all the files and security of that country are stored in refuses to work? By that I mean: what will happen if that computer catches malware and all the data will be erased? At that point in time, we will be in big crises. So we can’t fully trust computers or any sort of electronic device neither can we fully rely upon it. Even though computer technology has positive points, the negative ones are greater.

Alas, computer technology has overtaken mankind and succeeded in making 'Homo sapiens' slaves for eternity.