Computer Technology – Is it Good Or Bad?

The 21st century has been the age of so lots of technological breakthroughs and advances, technologies aimed for one purpose and thats to make the lives of people better through helping them become more efficient in their work. One such technological breakthrough is computer technology.

Computer technology has grown in really good proportions starting from a computer with a size that of a room to a small well-designed palm top computer. Computers nowadays have become an indispensable segment of the lives of people, especially at work, at companies, businesses, schools, offices and even in homes.

It has made the world smaller, but has it made our world better? It would then lead us to ask whether computer technology is good or bad. Now let us attempt to observe first some of the bad effects. With the advent of computers and with the net it has become easy to access pornographic sites, children are more exposed to explicit content; some students would lose focus on their studies as they play computer games. The number of obesity cases has increased and it has been attributed to too much computer activity that led to less physical activity among a number of people.

On the other side of the coin, computers have opened a whole new world of possibilities. It is now easier to gain information on world events; you can even get a job in the internet; you can spread advocacies to a large number of people all over the world; and most importantly it is now easier to be connected with one another even if you are on the other side of the globe.

Computer technology, just such as other material on earth has been created with a common good in mind. Just such as a knife, it has been made to cut and slice food to speed up cooking time for people but it can also be used to kill people, as well as you cannot ban the use of knives in order to stop killing. And so you can’t blame computers for the problems it may have caused for it is the people who use them who caused the problem. It has disadvantages and advantages that need to be taken into consideration.

But the problem is not computer technology itself; the problem resides on the people who use it. Computer technology is generally good for it can bring in a bunch of good if it is used properly, but can do really good harm if used unwisely.

People have choices on how they make use of earth’s resources, as well as that choice will decide how certain materials will affect people, be it good or bad.