How Much Is Technology Overtaking Us?

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Ever since the invention of technology, our world had been getting more advanced quicker. By doing this we are losing some of our concepts such as unselfishness. Our desire to want and need has been funding the way our society works. We now need calculators to do simple math, we need Facebook and Twitter instead of actually communication, or how we need to alter our unborn children so they could be as we desire. And our wonderful IPhones, Galaxies, or any other type of smart phones are just distractions to our minds. The new technology advancements in science are great but what are they really teaching us? And the answer to that is inhumanity, and selfishness.
Our human population mainly strives off of technology. Especially if you were born during the last two generations. Very slowly we are losing our ancestors ways and replacing them with mac or Toshiba computers. Internet servers like Google, Yahoo, or Bing all help make almost anything you need easier. And why have to go to the library when you can download articles and books at home. Whether you’re searching how to solve an algebraic equation? Or trying to see when the newest apple product coming out? You type in your questions and through network of coding you come up with pages full of websites with articles, books, videos, yahoo answers or Wikipedia, showing you what you wanted to know. Which can sometimes be a bad thing because instead of trying to figure out an answer that may be in a book, you would google it. And by Googling those answers your losing insight that you could have learned by searching and reading about the answer instead.
Many young adults go on Facebook, Twitter, or chat rooms. Being on the internet allows anyone to be what they want to be. It could bo...

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...gy to help enhance the natural effects of birth unless it’s being able to cure a killing disease or illness. Having no humanity or being selfishness in our society today is likely, but we can stop this trend in numerous ways like start cutting back our times on the computer and start becoming more social. We need to start being reminded the concepts of doing simple math like counting on our fingers or writing the problem out, and stop copying or using a calculator when it is not needed. We should also stop trying to be Gods with reinventing the human life forms and just try to improve the health of a human instead. Only us as a society can stop these effects on humanity before everything that used to be human I now some sort of computer or gene mutation. We should always want to advance in the world but some things in the world are to not be mess with like humanity.

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