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Technology: Help or Hindrance? Every technological advancement aids humans in a task be it a chemical that increases plant growth or a weapon that can accurately kill a person from two miles away. Computers are used to efficiently communicate and organize but the lion share of crime today is executed with computers. Hormones and pesticides increase food production rate, but impacts the health of consumers. Vehicles that allow a person to travel quickly from one place to another but cause global warming as well as crashes that cost the lives of thousands each year. Technology helps us to do so many things much more efficiently but always has a downside. The world would be a happier, safer place if the most sophisticated technology available was farming tools, irrigation, and the wheel. In today’s world it is a constant race to be the most technologically advanced country in the world. Technology creates a constant paranoia that a new weapon or system is being developed by another country that could wipe out an entire continent or infiltrate the most secure information. Technology, as far as espionage and military matters go simply creates ways gather more information from other nations quicker and combined with advanced military technology, ways to kill many people in a short amount of time. Also, in 2008 over $265,000,000 were stolen and cybercrime has risen 1/3 since 2007 (Pilkington). Computers, ATM’s, credit and debit cards, are very convenient. No bills floating around loose, but two-thirds of all crime is cyber crime (Pilkington). Is the convenience really worth the risk of someone being able to drain a person’s life savings in less than half-an-hour? Agriculturally, scientists have discovered all sorts of pesticides and hormones that increase the growth of the plant or animal but eventually also ends up in the body of the person who eats it. This technology allows a much higher rate of food production but ultimately is harming humans due to the unhealthy chemicals that are being imbibed along with the food. These steroids can cause obesity as well as reduce the body’s ability to clean itself which causes acne. Steroids in food can also make medical issues worse (Atwell). While not directly killing people off, these steroids can worsen medical problems and decrease a body’s overall health. Trains, cars, ships, airplanes, each of these inventions allow humans to travel from point A to point B in a short amount of time as well as transport goods. As good as that sounds, a closer look provides that downside to each of this appealing machines. Scientists all over the world are discussing the issue of global warming and believe one of the main causes is greenhouse gases. All these vehicles and the production of them are constantly belching out enormous amounts of gases. Not to mention oil spills, car crashes, airplane engine failure, derailed trains. These machines while a great help can ultimately end a person’s life. Doing away with technology is completely out of the question, today’s society is altogether to dependent on it for that to happen. However, there is always a place to start. There is little that can be done as far as security and weapons go but ordinary, everyday, people can take measures to help with food and health issues as well as cars and other forms of transportation. Buy organic foods and don’t visit fast food joints often. Hybrids and smaller cars are a good way to reduce fuel emissions which are currently at 7 billion tones in the U.S., higher than anywhere else in the world (Gislason). The world would be a better place without technology. Greed has inspired the human race to be the best at everything and what seems to be the backbone of society is actually causing all the problems. Global warming, WMD’s, security breaches, harmful chemicals technology is like a medicine that will save a person but cut short their life span by twenty years. All Adam and Eve had was a garden full of fruit and lo and behold, they were content. Today we have computers, cars, tons of food, the most advanced military in the world and yet everyone seems to be stressed out the majority of the time. Technology solves one problem and causes two, the world and the human race would be better off with no technology at all. However, since that is not an option, make an effort to reduce the amount of harmful technology used in daily life. Atwell, Janet “Can Steroids in our Food Actually Make our Health Issues Worse?” [] ]. February 15, 2007. March 30, 2009 Gislason, Stephen. “Cars, Air Pollution, and Health”. []. March 30, 2009 Pilkingtion, Ed “ New figures show cyber crime on the rise” [|http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/30/internet-cyber-crime March 30], 2009. Guardian.Co.Uk April 1, 2009