by Jason Quinn

Created on: September 24, 2007

Technology and computers have been claimed to damage us.. but where has this idea come from? Where has the evidence of this come from? I noticed that someone had written it is a problem because "you experience no smells or real sound and don't have peripheral vision" (When reffering to computer games) but does not continue to explain why this would damage. So why would it? I can think of other things that don't have sounds or smell.. how about books? Yet they are seen as a thing intellects may consider a hobby. Reading them, that is! How about music? That doesn't have smell related to it.. yet consider all the music over hundreds of years and how even in modern society we have music, but now modern music is considered a bad thing by many of the older generation. Could it be that a large proportion of the older generation are just technophobic? The problem isn't technology; it's lack of understanding and having the doors of your mind shut. Take racism.. it's almost entirely a fear of the unknown, and the same applies to almost any prejudices people have.

Technology is the way forward. This is obvious since it is technology, I am not defining a single thing here from the topic. We pour money into research and development and there's a reason for that.. to improve our lives and make them easier. Though there is no evidence, what if computers did harm our eye sight? Well; we would be working on ones that don't. To draw a paralell; Take a look at the victorian factories. Many children were killed in the machines but they were improved to make them safer. And similar to that; technology will continue to be improved and made safer.

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