How Has Technology Changed Our Society?

The modern age is an age of Technology. Through out the world, people have been benefiting from this source. Technology is playing a vital role in all fields. With new discoveries in Technology, difficult tasks are made simple and easy to perform. Modern day society has changed a lot.

With the help of Electronic and Print media, people are gaining knowledge not only nation-wide but world-wide also. They come to know about those elements, which they have never heard before in the past. New ideas are reaching to a common man of a society. Computer technology is an example. Day by day, there have been new researches in the field. It was Technology that helped man reached the moon and now he is planning to advance further.

Technology means technical advancement or in other words industrialism. The modern era is an apparent example. It has given birth to an entirely new type of culture and civilization. To have a true idea about the nature of the change of life and civilization, we must look to the end of the 18th century. Technology has brought about a change in all spheres of society.

The very idea of man has undergone change under the influence of machines. Previously man was thought to be a weak creature. He suffered from ignorance and superstition. Now he is all-powerful. Machines have badly affected the thinking power of man. There has taken place a decline of attention.

Technology has also brought about a change in our perception towards life. Good values of life and moral principles are not given so much importance as in the past. There have occurred many changes in our social life also. People have grown richer than before. There is a definite and perceptible rise in our standard of life.

The economic field is no exception. This aspect of society has shown the greatest possible change. A large number of factories have emerged. They attract the people from the rural areas to the urban ones. Unemployment is also one of the consequences of technology on a large scale. Trade unions, strikes and lockouts are also very common these days. In short, we can say that technology has totally changed our social life.

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