The consistent growth of technology in our modern world today is gradually humbling the universe with diverse innovations of the brave mind. The world is rapidly changing that we wake up every day to realize what we knew yesterday is no longer relevant today thereby compiling us to be consistently update our knowledge base as to meet up with the unforeseen technological challenges. Before the advent of wireless digital mobile phone in Nigeria in 2001, communication was done on the then popular NITEL land line where callers and receivers journey to make and receive their calls respectively. This mobile phone was then mainly for certain individuals who were rated above the middle class but today, the story has a new song as even the beggar on the street is now a proud owner of smartphone having access to the entire world from a given geographical location, buying and selling without having a glimpse of how the manufacturers factories and store house look like. Individual now run their daily bank transaction using technology hence bringing the services of bank staff to minimal and this has cost many their jobs in recent time in the banking industries to be precise where mass retrenchment ensue periodically after technological advancement. The current cashless policy can attest to this fact where numbers of staff at the bank counter were drastically reduced thereby increasing the unemployment rate. While many have come to believe that technology has brought positive results to the society because of the present improvement in the social well-being, some are still skeptical. Nevertheless if there were no technology, you wouldn’t have been able to read this post.
Technology has undoubtedly enhanced modern life in many ways to mention but a few are in communication, transportation and sciences. Before the invention of telegram and telephones, taking information from one place to another was quite challenging and unmanageable. If we look at it critically today, the revise is the case. Information can now be conveyed swiftly from one end to another within a twinkle of an eye. The global news networks had also aided people all over the world through information dissemination. For instance, news can be presented on website and social network (Facebook, tweeter, etc.) about what is happening on the other side of the world, weather forecast and natural disasters are foretold before they occur base on feasibility studies. click here for further piece
Life event can be viewed from distance as it happen crystal clear via remote computer/telecast, places can be monitored via CCTV-www.stencomm.com and record for playback with good visibility, employers can monitor the timing of his/her employee with time attendance register, fire out break can be monitored with fire alarm system and all of that. All of the aforementioned were in the time past human responsibilities and now that they are handled technologically and denying people of their jobs , the big question is “Is technology a right move in a good direction?
A wise man once said “In life, if you solved a problem you have only succeeded in creating more problems”. Technology were meant to add colour to life, relieving people of their daily stress by simplifying life, but in life, everything that has a good side also has a negative aspect in which technology is no exception.
