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New technologies in our life

We live in the era of high technologies, and we use modern inventions in our
everyday life because they have brought us much comfort. New technologies have spread
on every field over the past 15 years. Moreover, they are rapidly changing. For example,
video-recorders, DVD-players or compact disks have already become obsolete and have
been replaced by more up-to-date devices. Today we can hardly imagine our life without
such modern mobile devices as cell phones or laptops. Our offices are fully equipped with
computers, printers, scanners, air-conditioners, interactive whiteboards and wi-fi modems.
Household appliances (vacuum-cleaners, coffee-machines, dish-washers, food processors
and others) help us to save our time and energy.
However, we should realize that digital and electronic inventions have both negative
and positive impact on our daily life.
I am absolutely positive that new technologies or gadgets are making things faster,
easier, more comfortable and interesting. For instance, if you install a GPS (Global
Positioning System) in your car you’ll never get lost again. And could we imagine just 15
years ago all the things we can do on the wireless Internet nowadays: connecting with
friends from all over the world, online shopping and banking, distance online learning,
finding virtual relationships and even working from home? Isn’t that awesome?! Our
parents used to go to post-offices to send letters or pay bills, they went to libraries to find a
good book and they used telephone-booths for phone-calls.
On the other hand, I know some people who are strongly against some modern
inventions because they really miss those days when they talked to each other face to face
in reality, and not virtually. I partially agree with that as I really believe that people are
becoming anti-social and too dependent on their gadgets. Some of my friends also spend
half of the time occupying their shiny gadgets (smart-phones or i-pads) even when we go
out together. Besides, people who use various social networks a lot (such as Facebook or
Instagram) should worry more about their privacy.
Summing up, I could say that there are serious arguments both for and against the use of
new technologies but anyway it’s really difficult to imagine our life without them today.