Category: Effects of Technology

Have you ever wondered how technology shapes the person that you’ll become in the future? Without a doubt, technology has a great impact on our everyday life. Nicholas Carr in his article ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid’ describes the Internet as an immeasurable powerful computing system: “It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing…

Mario Kafouros and Nicolas Forsans examine in their research paper ‘The role of open innovation in emerging economies: Do companies profit from the scientific knowledge of others? The paper details the impact of external scientific knowledge on company profitability and more generally the role of open innovation in emerging economies, often where often technology less…

Science Fiction: A Commentary On Our Society? “Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.” The above quote comes from Captain James T. Kirk, in an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series called ‘Metamorphosis’. The episode…

In today’s times, people are becoming more and more heartless and self-absorbed. The question at hand is rather or not technology and the Internet are the problem. I would have to say yes! Empathy is, by definition, the experience of understanding another’s condition from their perspective. Commonly, empathy can be described as stepping into someone…

At the beginning of the earth, it was just a small part of the sun. Now it is the only place for the existence of life. Life started slowly from Stone Age to Modern Age. Then the people start to develop their places, changing their lifestyle. The most developing things from Stone Age to Modern…

Internet usage has become a far greater part of society in the past 2 decades. It is used for, virtually, anything one can imagine. Everything is connected to the web for example; if you want to order something from a shop, you don’t need to call the store and ask for it, you just have…

Contemporary society claims that the publishing industry is dying and the innovation of e-books will eventually cause printed books to death. Articles and books critical of the Internet, including the Internet’s impact on reading, have increased in recent years. The digital revolution has significantly impacted the ways of publishing. Most people are reading very differently…

Technology has become advanced over the years which has now become a powerful tool, and has become a necessity in people’s lives. Technology addiction is a thing that has become very common in our lives and is an issue that has to be addressed. The addiction is universal which means that it can be at…

Introduction Space exploration has always been a popular topic of discussion ever since the launching of Apollo 11. Even more recent, Elon Musk’s space program, SpaceX, has announced that they will be sending citizens to space which demonstrates that through a variety of space related events, society has been swayed into supporting space exploration. In…

I undoubtedly believe that advancements in technology are necessary for our future. A famous writer/inventor named Arthur C. Clarke once said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The fantasies have turned into reality, and what used to be impossible has become possible all because of windows of opportunities created by technology, could you…