Kenji
Mr. Kelly
CLIP 3A
May09, 14
Draft 1
Nowadays, technology is changing our life in many areas: communication, work and environment. However, sometimes technology is a double edged sward.
According to the passage “Technology and the College Generation” by Courtney Rubin, posted on New York Times, we can figure out that not all of the generations can follow the technology’s development. The new generation can take the new things easily; however, it may make a gap between the generations if the old generation is not good at or feel uncomfortable with one new technology that the young people prefer. For example, Mr. Junco’s experiment showed that college students are using 123 minutes per day on a computer. They spend 31 minutes on social networking, but only using 6 minutes to check the E-mail. At the same time, most professors prefer suing E-mail to connect to students. They are uncomfortable connecting to students on Facebook, Twitter or Wechat. The different networking habits will affect the communication between two generations.
In addition, technology plays important role in work place. Machines, robots are used in almost all of factories; for example, automobile industry, electronic industry and steel industry. According to the book The Working Life, during the industrial revolution, steel industry’s output increased two times as well as oil industry. However, the physical output of American industry increased fourteenfold! The reason is that Mechanization not only made work more efficient, it also deskilled some job and made people easily replaceable, like the part of machine. It made two problems: overworking and unemployment.
On the other hand, the smoke, waste water and industrial garbage pollute the nature environment. This issue is becoming more and more serious from the industrial revolution. Scientists find some new technology to reduce the pollution. Unfortunately, in 2011, because of the earthquake, Japanese Nuclear Power Station has an explosion. The negative effects of environment will appear for long time.
Therefore, technology is a double edged sward. It not only make our life convenient and colorful, but also make some problems. We should face it rationally. However, as a new generation we should learn how to use new technology and use our knowledge to solve the problem from the technology to make our life more and more beautiful.
Mr. Kelly
CLIP 3A
May09, 14
Draft 1
Nowadays, technology is changing our life in many areas: communication, work and environment. However, sometimes technology is a double edged sward.
According to the passage “Technology and the College Generation” by Courtney Rubin, posted on New York Times, we can figure out that not all of the generations can follow the technology’s development. The new generation can take the new things easily; however, it may make a gap between the generations if the old generation is not good at or feel uncomfortable with one new technology that the young people prefer. For example, Mr. Junco’s experiment showed that college students are using 123 minutes per day on a computer. They spend 31 minutes on social networking, but only using 6 minutes to check the E-mail. At the same time, most professors prefer suing E-mail to connect to students. They are uncomfortable connecting to students on Facebook, Twitter or Wechat. The different networking habits will affect the communication between two generations.
In addition, technology plays important role in work place. Machines, robots are used in almost all of factories; for example, automobile industry, electronic industry and steel industry. According to the book The Working Life, during the industrial revolution, steel industry’s output increased two times as well as oil industry. However, the physical output of American industry increased fourteenfold! The reason is that Mechanization not only made work more efficient, it also deskilled some job and made people easily replaceable, like the part of machine. It made two problems: overworking and unemployment.
On the other hand, the smoke, waste water and industrial garbage pollute the nature environment. This issue is becoming more and more serious from the industrial revolution. Scientists find some new technology to reduce the pollution. Unfortunately, in 2011, because of the earthquake, Japanese Nuclear Power Station has an explosion. The negative effects of environment will appear for long time.
Therefore, technology is a double edged sward. It not only make our life convenient and colorful, but also make some problems. We should face it rationally. However, as a new generation we should learn how to use new technology and use our knowledge to solve the problem from the technology to make our life more and more beautiful.