The great improvements in science and technology in the last 100 years have affected our lifestyle positively and even have extended our life expectancy, leading to the belief that there is no better time to live and enjoy life than now. However, some people claim that the technology era caused many bad consequences for our life in present and near future. In my opinion, the latter stand point is more persuasive.
People in favor of the former view contend that the living standard is higher and higher with the amount of houseworks reducing and all familly having more free time thanks to cutting edge technology. Unquestionably, in modern lifestyle, the existence of many kind of automatic machines assist people to liberate manual labour and gain more time to do other things. Nevertheless, as there goes a saying " everything in life has its price", abusing automatic machines too much can lead to many serious troubles in life. For example, the fact has shown that not only does the divorce rate increase significantly after each year but the number of obese people caused by laziness in daily life climbs with high speed. It is undenialble that only by being lazy in some useful manual works like houseworks can people feel hard to keep fit than in the past and even be impossible to be faithful partners in marrage life when having so much free time to entertain themselve.
Another rationale advocating for the former opinion is that modern life with high developed science and technology plays an important role in making easier for all citizens to travel to anywhere they want and to communicate with each other. So convinient is connecting through internet that it helps people nowadays keep in touch with the others even when they are staying at different parts of the world. However, nowhere is the bad effect of cutting edge technology more apparent than in human relationships. To illustrate, new diseases created in this cut-throat world such as hurry-sickness and stress related illnesses can affect badly on people's attitude and may ruin all kind of relationships in daily life. Unfortunately, such is a two edged knife that cutting-edge technology makes people to be more selfish than ever. According to scientifc research, unlike in the past, people nowadays live insensibility and soulessly because they would rather want to save the time for communicating with others by using some kinds of equipment such as mobile phone, sms and email than go out to meet each other directly.
Last but not least, it is believed that only in technology era can people figure out many cures for a lot of life-threatening diseases. For example, that technology is used in many researches in order to create more vaccines for saving people life can be an important advantage point. But, is it always true in any circumstances? When being in a process of searching for new technology, there are more and more patients who have to suffer cancer caused by pollution and radiation effects. Futhermore, behind the positive side of technology lies many dangers such as tragic natural disasters. To be more specific, only because people have ruined natural environment to serve the scientific purposes did many disasters caused by losing ecological balance happened and killed thousands of innocent citizens. It is undeniable that skyscrapers, even some buildings of hospitals, today exacerbate the greenhouse effect which directly is destroying our life little by little. Besides, importantly, how can we guarantee that the process of producing new medicine is totally safe for our environment? And how can we protect our health from many unpredicted dangers caused by new kind of technology?
