| There are few people that don't interact with | | | | However, when you consider how fast we need |
| technology on any given day. It seems that many | | | | to gather information at times, it almost seems |
| of us are turning over our lives and many of our | | | | like it doesn't matter whether information is |
| worries to technological advances - some for | | | | accurate - just that we can attain it. |
| better, but others for worse. But when we use | | | | Another consideration of the faster pace of |
| technology as a way to lessen our overall | | | | technology is its strain on our wallets and egos. |
| workload and subsequent stress, the fast pace of | | | | New pieces of technology are always more |
| technology doesn't seem like that bad of a | | | | expensive until we learn newer and cheaper ways |
| process. | | | | to produce them. Or when people start to buy |
| Many of us are using technology as a way to | | | | more of them, we produce more, lowering their |
| organize our lives and stay in contact with other | | | | price. But since every piece of technology can be |
| people. We have personal digital assistants, | | | | improved, the process never seems to end. |
| portable computers, digital music players, and | | | | Tangled in with these advances is the ego driven |
| televisions. All of these allow us to interact with | | | | need to have the newest and best things in our |
| others or learn more information than we had in | | | | possession, lest our neighbors or coworkers 'beat |
| the past. We are a more informed society | | | | us' to them. We always want the best of |
| because of technology, but there are | | | | everything, but we can end up paying more for |
| disadvantages to these advances. | | | | something that will only be improved again in a |
| When you look at the Internet as one of the | | | | few months. |
| newer forms of technology, you begin to see | | | | Where does that leave the fast pace of |
| that while everyone has access to information, it | | | | technology? On one hand, we are constantly |
| also means that anyone has access to this | | | | learning about the way that our world works and |
| information. Anyone can write anything and place | | | | how we can manipulate technology to help us in |
| it on the Internet for someone else to read and | | | | this world. But on the other hand, we might be |
| use to add to their knowledge. But not all of the | | | | starting to look so closely at what we could do, |
| information is truthful, nor is it objective in nature. | | | | and less at what we can already do. |