Do you agree that technological innovation brings more disadvantages than benefits to the lives of ordinary citizens?

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                                                                                                        Veronique Xun Shao

Do you agree that technological innovation brings more disadvantages than benefits to the lives of ordinary citizens?    

 

In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost, in order that an individual or a group of individuals may earn as much money as possible. It has expanded without any idea of the true nature of the human beings who run the machines, and without giving any consideration to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants by the artificial mode of existence imposed by the factory.

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Human beings turn to be cold and detached and have been deprived of love by technology. On one hand, because of sitting at the computer for too long rather than communication, people become more distant from our families. An alarming research releases that children in Britain spent four and a half hours sitting in front of television and computer screen ( Febury 1st 2011,  ), which result in parents’ complaining that their children are so secretive and never tell them anything. On the other hand, technology has pushed the relationship of couples to a dangerous stage, even divorce.Terry Kirby, ...

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