The Impact Of Technology On Everyday Life

Instead of helping people become more productive, modern day conveniences have increased the demand of everyday life. Society’s point of view has shifted from designing products to help lives become easier, to designing time saving convenience products. Provided, people have become more productive, these increases in productivity are not on par with increases in wages. Lives have become overrun with modern conveniences, it is difficult to imagine a society without them. Instead of helping these everyday technologies have set the bar too high, and it is causing everyday life to become too stressful.
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One cannot walk through their home without seeing an element of technology designed to cause modern life to be increasingly convenient. Technology has taken over everyday lives; from modern electricity, refrigerators, computers to cars, technology has become essential. Not only has it taken over it has sped up the ebb and flow of the environment. Feeling compelled to be productive during all hours of the day is a side effect of a rushed environment. Leisure time is even affected, relaxing usually involves time spent watching television or playing video games. The speed of technology has increased, increasing with it the speed of life. The world today is too much hustle and bustle and not enough smelling the

Most people would say, having modern conveniences is in not so many words, more convenient. Having washing machines frees up time to accomplish cleaning the house; or having a computer helps with jobs or studying. Cars save us from having to walk everywhere; however, they also cost time to build and maintain them. Considerations should be made for the money spent to buy those convenience machines and the time spent by workers to bring the item to the consumer. It took a mine worker numerous hours to find enough metal to build a washing machine, another worker spent time to design it. Still another worker spent the time to build it. It also took time for the consumer to earn enough money to buy the washing machine. However, was all of the time taken to build these machines worth it? Saving time is the intended design of some machines, but the machines are not actually saving time they are just spreading out the workload to provide the illusion of savings. Technology bombards the average American from the moment they wake up in the morning to the time they wander off to sleep. Making days easier was the intent of these technological advances, but they have made life more demanding and therefore less