Many people spend their time on the computer because it is informative, a good way to interact with others, useful in many ways, environmental (depending on how you view this), and we can save time completing complicated tasks in a short time. Instead of leaving the apartment to go for a walk or a jog at the park, contributing in communities in the reality, or community services, we sit at our desk typing away. Which is 1. Extremely unhealthy, this may cause various eating disorders to happen and or diseases because of the environment we are engrossed in; 2. Can lead to the malfunction of body reactions due to the lack of face-to-face interaction with others and many more problems.
Students especially depend on their computers for projects. Most articles debating whether we are too depend on computer are held by students on the internet. Students say that they do feel they are too dependent on computers at time when it comes to their projects and fear it may be a disadvantage in the near future.
Is it? A poll conducted in January 2004 by more than 2000 voters around the world claim that the majority, with 1002 votes, believe they are a 'computer geek/nerd'. Due to the language used, this poll was most likkely conducted by the younger generation – teenagers, if not young adults. Due to the time gap between 2009 and 2004 - the year the poll was conducted, I would proudly pressume that there would be an increase in the number of voters voting that they are addicted to the computer whether it is for work or entertainment purposes.
While others indulge themselves in entertainment or school work purposes, adults or the older generation would use the computer for conducting business objectives (research, conducting a plan etc.), organizing data files or even to interact with the society. If the technology sector of an organisation, no matter if the industry is medical, business, media or education, fails, the entire sector would be frozen to a stand-still until the system recovers. The scare of an enormous computer crash in 1999 as a result of the year changing to 2000 should be evidence that most people who use computers and most businesses do not have enough independence from computers.
In a recent discussion thread conducted in January 2009, debaters discuss the issues of computer dependence. Of the seven posters participated in the discussion, all felt they are addicted to the computer. Because they spend so much time on the computer, simple daily activities for example keeping the house clean etc are left behind due to the amount of activities one can do on the internet and computer. These activities include banking, shopping, keeping in touch with friends, checking the stock market & news, discussing topics, checking the email, looking for vehicles and prices, paying bills and many, many more. The above simply entitles a small section of the world of technology and some debaters are beginning to wonder what the world would look like away from the technology the 21st century brings.
Now, because of the older generation's influence, the younger generation particularly have seized on the extraordinary communication possibilities of the Internet. Even elementary school children have been taught to use computers to perform school work for later reference and to adapt to the modern world society – researching homework support material on the internet, producing printed packages for essays, reports of some sort, and most seem to be overjoyed to know that the younger generation is able to use almost professionally this undeniably useful and modern technology.
For what? We teach the younger generation to use the computer because we live in the era of e-mail and video-conferencing. Are we creating a new form of culture that can only be expressed through technological means? Are we willing to sacrifice the nature of the world for more developed convience to ourselves? The media is full of stories of romantic possibilities of the Internet and again the younger generation have not been slow in exploiting its potential. We ask ourselves, do we really need this? Is this truly helpful to us as fellow human beings?
We know that despite its' wonderous ability the World Wide Web can do, it may have pitfalls for the unwary; we also know that computers can be the new factor to create a better safer environment reducing the use of trees for paper on essay writing or letters. In conclusion after the above discussion, I conclude that, yes, the new generation is too dependent on computers. Not only because there are more evidence to my opinion than it helps the environment, but it is because this is becoming a general fact in society that we have depended on technology for over a century and most are still debating whether we, human beings, are conducting the right actions for our environment after light-bulbs, fossil fuels, and plastic. Would we be creating more havoc by depending on technology even further?