Technological Advancement: Computers and others
Computers! Computers! Nowadays, many teenagers and kid are addicted to it. They prefer to hold the keyboard and mouse in the Internet café all the time than to get hold of books at home, study their lessons and read about science, math and literature.Through technological advancement and science explorations, comes these “computer-hooked” children. What's interesting with these gadgets? Well, we can easily search what we're looking for. We can also make presentations, slide shows and articles in the computer. We can also listen music in the Internet and play some games.
Most students love to browse and surf the net in Internet cafés than to read books in the school library. Why? It's because they found that Internet browsing faster and more convenient. With the technologies nowadays, they are able to search for multiple answers to their questions in a split second. Not only that, since it's faster than reading books and other research materials, it saves time and effort and gives us time to relax and rest. Students now fancy the Internet because it offers more entertainment and less hassle. Internet offers a very broad range of topics for students and youth to be discovered not like books which has limited resources and information. The most useful websites are those that has search engines. You can search for images, videos, news and others. Examples of these websites are Yahoo, Google Answers, Wikipedia and Search. There are also school websites where you can get information about a particular school. We can also gather different kinds of information.
With this so-called Internet , we can also connect to our relatives and friends in faraway places. We don't need to write them letters because we can send them messages through mailing. We can also chat in the Internet. We can chat with our friends and schoolmates. We can also befriend people around the globe through websites that connect us to them. Some of these websites are Yahoo Mail, G-mail and Friendster.
Another interesting field in the computers and Internet is also it has entertainment sections like games. It depends on the site that you will visit. Gaming is the cause why many kids are addicted to it. Games are off line or on line. Some of our neighbors are. From school, instead of going home directly, they go first to the Internet cafés until midnight, they stay there without any food in there stomach. Some do cutting classes so they can go to the Internet cafés early. Some go there early in the morning around one or two o'clock A.M. This is why we say that gaming is powerful in computers. Gaming is like prohibited drugs that once tasted always wanted.
With this advancement of technology, other gadgets begin to bloom. Some of these are third generation and 3.5 G cellphones; laptops and palmtops and portable CD, VCD and DVD players. There are too many other things that came out from technological advancement. Some of these are usually used at our homes like refrigerators, oven and air-conditioners. But these affects our environment. It releases chlorofluorocarbons that pollute our environment. Little by little, it makes a hole in our ozone layer that protects us from the harmful rays of the sun.
The essence of science and technology:ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to get a pertinent answer. Technology... is a queer thing; it brings you gifts with one hand and stabs your back with the other.
posted by markanthony @ 4:43 PM
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