Can technology make a better world?

Technology has been able to develop mankind in an exceptional increase during the last 30 years. From Paleolithic period, our ancestors used tools made of sharp stones or arrows made of wood. They used them to make it easier to get food or face predators. So we followed the same way of development making computers, mobile phones, TV… These tools help us in our society to cover the needs we have. Nowadays there are several discussions about: what is technology really providing for the world? Many countries from Africa, Asia and South America are getting exploded to make some people richer than they already are. So, on one hand the modern world takes advantage of the technological advance, and many get rich. However, on the other hand many suffer terrible working conditions with ridiculously low pay.

Adding to that, many people, specifically young people, are getting hooked on these technologies which are addictive and they use all their free time looking at screens and not interacting with friends face to face.

With all this stuff between us, some creepy people use social media to get the life privacy of the others.

The technology advances have caused the corruption of the deepest and darkest feelings of humans: the wars. We have improved the weapons only to defeat other humans in the wars.

Yet, we have recently used the technologies to avoid potential coming wars.

In spite of these negative consequences, technology is making amazing discoveries and we have achieved memorable goals such as landing on the moon or go deeper on the knowledge about the behavior of the universe. Thanks to new technologies, we are able to communicate to each other whenever we want and independent of the distance the two people are separated.

So I can conclude that technologies help a lot the world to improve and move forward, but for every advance we do, there are negative consequences for our society and it makes us ask ourselves if technologies can really help and make the world better.