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Add to FavoritesTechnology helps us save time, but we can then waste the time we save. So is it really worth saving?
Ever known anyone that lived with 300 cats or dogs? Maybe they kept a couple in the freezer, because they "Just couldn't bear to let them rot in the ground!". I'm sure, at least some of us have seen them arrested on "Cops" or on the latest "Shocking" seiries. Technology allowed them the time to grow their filth and starve hundreds of lives. If they were back to growing their own food and truly laboring to make a living for all of the necessities that just fall in our laps today, maybe their focus would breath life into something a little less foul smelling. If they had to fetch a pail of water for every thirsty mouth, instead of just turning a faucet, they might consider keeping that little impulse that shrieks "Ooh a new puppy!", at bay. Truly this situation is an unexpected scenario of some of the earlier technologies, and we have much more distraction today than the mere benefits of a water utility, so I'm not at all recommending that technology is bad in any way.
It is the thoughts involved with the action that save a person time. If something is being done more efficiently, it's effect on "saving" time is meaningless unless the new time improves the quality of life for someone at sometime. Increasing the availability of time, for someone who is not ready to use it, can actually produce time wasting circumstances. A person can end up spinning their wheels by creating more problems IF they are not saving their time for a specific reason. The potential for chaos can be show whith examples like the one above.
So does technology save us time? No, but it is true that it can help us save time if it is our choice to do so. It is the desire to create something new in your life that calls upon the forces around you to clear out a space for some type of growth. Without the nourishment of hope and ideas for your furture, the effects of technology on making things quicker mean nothing. For as long as people have mouths to utter the excuse "I do not have time", there will always be those who'll believe this lie, and make it their own stressful reality. Time is on our side, we only have to believe that, and act upon it no matter the circumstances. Until we stop chasing our tails, we will never settle down and see the potential that today holds.
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Waste time
Does technology help us save time or waste time? This is a tough question and not one that is all one way or the other. Computers certainly help with locating information and storing facts. Hospitals run much faster with accurate databases and state of the art equipment. Doctors, lawyers, and even the plumber find cellular phones help them get business, but does technology really save time for most people?
How many times do you search for something on the internet, going through hundreds of options using up several hours when it was in a book on the shelf by the television? Computers and the internet are fascinating and exciting to use, but not always the fastest and easiest use of your time.
That television is technology as well. How much news is really news and how much is just thriller filler? How many people get so wrapped up watching sitcoms that they neglect their children or spouses? The technology does provide good entertainment and some wonderful programs, but most promotes violence or stupidity.
And then there are cellular phones. These do save lives and provide a security blanket for parents, you can always reach help (or the child) if needed. But are they replacing common sense and a development of responsibility? At a meeting the phone rings and everything stops. Supper burns, traffic slows down (or crashes) and you are late picking up the kids because "Aunt Lily" called to chat. Before a trained secretary would have handled the call; "Aunt Lily" would have known you were gone and either not called at that time or left a message. Cellular phones have also increased the numbers of lost and injured hikers because people do things they wouldn't normally do; help, after all, is just a phone call way!
Check out computer games, they are some very advance technology, but do they save time or waste it? They are made to waste time. Some do have educational properties and they are very useful for developing hand eye coordination as well as multi-tasking, but they don't save time!
Technology is not only useful and beneficial, it is essential in some areas. Space exploration and Medicine are two prime examples. It certainly saves time in travel on those modern airplanes. Does it save or waste time in our day to day lives? So far, writing this has taken two hours as I have had three cellular calls to sell me magazines that I don't want, six emails that needed answering or I would miss out of great offers, and the computer "froze" twice! That answers the question for me!
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