W2:Can you think of how technology makes our lives better?/ Lee Joon Hee

Advances in technology continue to show remarkable changes in our lives and the world. Walking is all we have now, and we now travel across the sky in our cars, on our land, on our planes. The telephone, a means of making calls, has now become a high-tech focus beyond portability, becoming a part of the human body. In the past, disease treatment methods have been developed and can be solved more often, and it has become possible to analyze the phenomena or patterns that occur in our society by using big data to improve the quality of our lives.

But technological advancement has sometimes become a weapon that takes the lives of many people, our personal information and privacy have become more vulnerable, and machines made by technology's development increasingly take up people's jobs. Many lives and nature have been sacrificed in the name of technological advancement, and a new sense of ethics, morality is required to deal with the consequences of new technology.


The two preceding paragraphs show that technological advances are like double-edged swords with both pros and cons. The technology has benefited a lot, but I felt that the cost paid in the process was never light. So we can simply say that we have made our lives better, but I think one side of my mind is uncomfortable.

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