Fast Technology and Faster Lives

With people living in the twenty-first century, they are living like there is no tomorrow. Each day grows shorter, and each second is filled with one more thing to do. People aren't able to live as care free and easily as they used to. Life is being thrown at us at a much more rapid speed. People want to go faster, they want to do more, they want to make more money, they want bigger and better lives. What we used to have in the past is not working for today's future. Technology is what is powering the world of the twenty-first century.
Cars, phones, television, internet, texting. Those are all things that are moving our world at a much faster pace. Many people think these are all good things, and others think it is a step in the wrong direction. Without this technology many new advances would not have been made. With the technology more accidents have been stirred up. What is the correct way to go? Technology or the Older, Simpler Days?
Technology-Technology has helped many people be in multple places at once. Cell phones are allowing people to communicate with anyone, anywhere. You can contact grandma all the way from China while you are in America. It reaches anywhere in the world while you are working or running a business. Cell phones also work as a day planner. It tells you where to go, when to be there, when to eat, how to dress. They are replacing almost everything, that is why you see so many people with them attached to their ears. They are the biggest and best craze in the world. People go out and buy a new phone almost every month. Something new comes out and they have to get it. One that is easier to text, bigger keypad, holds more music, or looks cooler than the older one because it flips sideways instead of upward. Another thing are cars. Everyone has to have a cooler, newer, faster, prettier car than their best friend or their neighbor. Cars are what get us everywhere, we can not get anywhere without our cars. Instead of having a car for the mother and father, everyone has to have one or two. Cars are turning into something that isn't just for practical use, but for aesthetics. You have an image if you have a nice car, or if you multiple cars. The fancier the car the more money you have. That isn't always the case. Television is the best way of entertainment, news, relaxation, and a way of doing nothing. People don't want to slow their life down by reading a paper, they want their information fast. Television provides a quick way to learn about the weather or the latest in the stock market. Internet is an even faster way of accessing information. One click and you have the front page of yahoo and news is at your fingertips. Click the button again and you are watching a funny video of two kids singing in Japan that was made five minutes prior. It is so fast that people are able to keep in contact with the world and what is happening at that very second. Technology has advanced our world in allowing for anything and everything we want. We can get movies, songs, pictures, or anything else for free and within seconds. The old days didn't even come close to matching that speed.
Older, Simpler Days-"Back in my day, times were simpler." Many old people have told me something along that line. They think because there wasn't as much to worry about, the times were better than they are now. Kids weren't being abducted, brains weren't being rotted by television, people were slower and cared about their fellow neighbor, times were "peachy." Now with all these perverts allowed to gain access to any young child, more crimes are targeted towards the youth. In the older days kids rode around on their bikes without talking to their parents the whole day. There wasn't as much worry back then as there is now. They didn't worry about playing with mercury in thermometers or riding their bikes without helmets. People watched out for one another. Now people can only talk through phones or through a text. Back then people said hi to one another and took time to care about people other than themself. You didn't worry about your old neighbor giving candy to your kid, they were just being nice. People now are always worrying about that person creeping behind the bushes. Television wasn't as important because kids had an imagination. Now kids are being told what imagination is by playing video games. Back in the older days kids made up their own games. They turned a sock and a stick into a game that would keep them entertained for hours. Now kids have to be told how to be entertained, they can't come up with it on their own.
With each of these two ways of looking at technology and how it was before technology, there are pros and cons to each. With anything that is introduced or any way of life, there will be negatives. There is nothing that is absolutely perfect for everyone. Some people would argue until they are blue in the face that cell phones are better, and others would say that talking to someone face to face is far better. With our culture the target ages of each technology is growing younger. Kids are using phones when they are still in Elementary school, when they can't go anywhere without a parent. Technology will only advance as our culture advances into the future. The good will always be accompanied by the bad. The only thing that will change are peoples' opinions on whether they will accept these condtions or not.