Does modem technology make life more convenient, or was life better when technology was simpler? What’s your opinion?

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Does modem technology make life more convenient, or was life better when technology was simpler? What’s your opinion? 

Modern technology has revolutionized life in three main fields: work, transport, and communications. Although modern technology is often blamed for stress and alienation, I doubt that more than a handful of people would turn back the clock to the pre-technological age, even if that were possible, because of the enormous benefits that technology has brought. 

Does modem technology make life more convenient, or was life better when technology was simpler? What’s your opinion? 

Despite the fact that life was simpler in former times, I would prefer not to return to that lifestyle, because that simplicity represented merely a lack of choice. Before large jet airliners came into use in the 1960s, for example, air travel was beyond the reach of most people. Before electronic cash registers and calculators, one had to spend a lot of time on arithmetic to carry out daily transactions. Furthermore, our knowledge of the world around us, especially foreign countries, was vague and sketchy before television brought us the vivid images of documentaries. Of course, life is more complex when there are more choices available, but what counts from my point of view is not the supposed complexity of modern decision-making but the value of the results we are able to obtain through modern technology and the ease and speed with which we are able to obtain them. British TV viewers lap up heritage TV series such as 'Upstairs Downstairs’ but they tend to forget that that era antedated the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, all labor-saving devices without which modern family life would be unthinkable. Modern technology has brought liberation from much exhausting, boring labor and has set us free to enjoy more interesting work and leisure. 

It is not even always true that modern technology is more complex to use than it was to perform household chores manually. Lighting a fire with paper or kindling the wood is a more complex skill than flicking a switch to put on the artificial logs in the grate. Similarly, caring for a horse (for those who could afford it) was a far more complicated and time consuming affair than starting up a 'horseless carriage’ (car) and taking it to the petrol station for its 5,000-mi1e service. Thirdly, one has only to read novels and diaries from former times to realize the anxiety and frustration which resulted from communication systems limited to the speed of a horse. By contrast, I was recently able to organize a party for people from two other countries within days using emails from Vietnam. 

The examples I have given are but a few of the many that could illustrate the case that modern technology makes life more convenient. Probably what makes some people yearn for the good old simple days is that the availability of choices puts pressure on us to make them, and the speed of modern technology pressures us to speed up our pace of life. Sometimes these pressures cannot be resisted. But sometimes they can, when we set ourselves simple priorities and stick to them, not losing sight of the fact that technology is not an end itself but a means to an end, a richer life for the ordinary person at work and leisure. 

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