The Advances

Technology itself is wonderful, but to what extent? Being born between the boundary of the past and new technological advances is quite something to think of. Half of my life, was the progression of technology. The other half was new advances. We as people have to do some sort of manual labor at some point. Sometimes we do it for the hell of it, we'll walk somewhere instead of driving. Why? Because there's a nice breeze and I don't want to use a car (though I can't drive hypothetically speaking). Does all this technology further evolves humans as even more lazier and stupider? Perhaps it does. People born in the golden age of technology take it for granted without realizing human struggle to achieve those advances and abuse that struggle. Machines further produce lazier people. The phones are great things and useful, but it's too overexaggerated. The non stop use of texting and the burden of a crazy phone bill. People blabbing about social networking sites, it's all shit. They're all great, we all take technology for granted at some point, but we fail to realize the consequences of great achievements
Such an example would be calculators, they help solve problems and they're useful, but when abused people lose a portion of their quick analyzing skills lost to the fast function of the calculator. Eventually people experience a dependency on it, and might to an extreme point suffer withdrawal without it. The problem is, technology is further degrading humans and causing themselves to lose mental capabilities and their analyzing skills are further weakened. Our greatest achievements occurred before technological success. Our greatest inventors are born in the age before technology was mainstream. Technology can aid us, but will also degrade us. It all depends whether its abused or not. For I use a computer and appreciate it's worthiness and don't take it for granted. In recent times, with every generation, minds are becoming less and less analytical and slower. This is due to a self-reliance on technology to save us. Francis Bacon of the Scientific Revolution believed in a scientific utopia as technology as our savior. That vision has come true in numerous ways. Technology will get the best of us, and end us.