Human beings are too dependent on technology. I mean can you go into the woods and survive for a day? How about a week or maybe even a month? Most people today couldn’t last a few hours. Why is this? Today’s world technology has robbed us of many of our most fundamental skills. People have not learned how to do many things. After a while humans will lose all basic skills because of technology because as they evolve and make better technology they also lose basic skills.
Many kids and even some adults today do not know how to write a letter. Phones and computers have made it easier for us to exchange information. Emails and text messages have all but replaced hand written letters. This makes writing letters obsolete so people teach it less and less. Being able to read a map would be great if you got stranded on an island with nothing but a map and the will to survive. But wait i forgot most people don’t know how to read one. With the invention of the GPS maps are no longer needed as much so most people don’t learn how to use one. As you can see humans have started to become more and more dependent on technology. Being so dependent has eroded mankind's basic skills. Human beings worked so hard to get these necessary skills over the millennium. Some are becoming so dependent upon it they are starting to merge the virtual and real world. This is an example of the Tetris effect. It is associated with video games a lot of the time but the Tetris effect goes for anything. The Tetris effect occurs from repetition whether it be a video game or doing math. Pretty soon we will use technology so much that this will happen. You may be reading a book and try and tap it to turn the page. You may look in a map and try to tap it to zoom out. This is why we should move away from using technology so heavily. Technology like anything should be used in moderation. Sometimes we should put our devices away and learn some skills our forefathers worked hard to get. We should go out and learn to read a map or learn to write a letter instead of relying so much on our technology to do it for us,
Now I am not saying technology is bad. Technology has made life easier for everyone. I am just saying that people should not be so dependent upon their devices. So put down the phone sometimes. Put away the tablets and video games. Go out and pick up some new awesome skills.
Many kids and even some adults today do not know how to write a letter. Phones and computers have made it easier for us to exchange information. Emails and text messages have all but replaced hand written letters. This makes writing letters obsolete so people teach it less and less. Being able to read a map would be great if you got stranded on an island with nothing but a map and the will to survive. But wait i forgot most people don’t know how to read one. With the invention of the GPS maps are no longer needed as much so most people don’t learn how to use one. As you can see humans have started to become more and more dependent on technology. Being so dependent has eroded mankind's basic skills. Human beings worked so hard to get these necessary skills over the millennium. Some are becoming so dependent upon it they are starting to merge the virtual and real world. This is an example of the Tetris effect. It is associated with video games a lot of the time but the Tetris effect goes for anything. The Tetris effect occurs from repetition whether it be a video game or doing math. Pretty soon we will use technology so much that this will happen. You may be reading a book and try and tap it to turn the page. You may look in a map and try to tap it to zoom out. This is why we should move away from using technology so heavily. Technology like anything should be used in moderation. Sometimes we should put our devices away and learn some skills our forefathers worked hard to get. We should go out and learn to read a map or learn to write a letter instead of relying so much on our technology to do it for us,
Now I am not saying technology is bad. Technology has made life easier for everyone. I am just saying that people should not be so dependent upon their devices. So put down the phone sometimes. Put away the tablets and video games. Go out and pick up some new awesome skills.
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