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In the beginning there was no technology but man was able to survive. Unfortunately though, man got a little fed up with walking across the lands for miles so started to use a donkey. That was much easier. Some of them even tried using camels. Man had a problem when he came to a river though as donkey's don't like swimming so he built himself a boat out of wood. Of course, this was too small to go across oceans so man started to develop ships so he could travel. Unfortunately, when he got to the other side of the Atlantic, the donkey's and camel's had died as they do so were no good. Man invented the car, all he had to do was sit there and let the wheels do the work. Brilliant. He looked cool in his car while the others were still riding donkeys. Driving in style started to get a bit slow though so man wanted to fly. The aeroplane came. What he had was never enough and man got greedy. Soon man built buildings, phones and bombs just to be safe.

Unfortunately, man's creations went a bit wrong. He crashed his car, the ship sunk, and bombs started exploding, Uh oh.
It is not worth saying that technology is bad because it isn't. It is fantastic. Unfortunately though, technology has made man very lazy. Why use a phone when you can just write an email? Why walk when you can drive? Why cook when you have a microwave? Why go out when you can just watch a television? Why write a letter when you can write Internet articles?
It has come to a point where we find it almost impossible to live without technology. Anybody that has been on a camping trip will vouch for that. The shock of attempting to live without electricity or without a mobile phone for a few days is scary to most people. Just imagine if we no longer had transport, what on earth will we do?! Technology has taken away the need for us to think for ourselves. We don't need to problem solve because it has all been put right there on a plate for us.
Just think for a second about all the gaseous substances that we breathe in every day. What about all the substances that we drink in water. These cannot be good for us or the mind.
So, technology has destroyed the need for man to fully extend his mind. It is a double edged sword however because without technology man would not be able to survive. Man is his own worst enemy and has created technologies that in the long run will go against him.

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