Today, we are enjoying so many technological innovations and unfortunately, we have become slaves of these innovations. This can be due to the fact that these things can give us comfort and entertainment. Let us move a million years back when there was still no electricity, no technology-nothing at all except the earth and humans living side by side with the animals. I think, maybe it was a better world because humans had more time to socialize and interact with each other. For days now, I have been thinking if all of the digital objects around me are really beneficial or if they are nothing short of agents for my my self-destruction, or my social life's distraction? With this in mind, we can think about the advantages and disadvantages of acquiring and owning high-tech electronic gadgets and all other digital knick-knacks sold in the market today.

Our kitchen is one of the greatest samples of a place where there are numerous things that are products of science and technology. Let's take a dishwasher as an example. This is made to make doing the dishes easier and help us with cleaning the plates, glasses and others. It is a very tiring task, even when you think of of the piles of dishes to wash after a lengthy, tiring day at work. However with the dishwasher, life seems lighter with regard to working mothers and everyone else.

Here I will discuss the positives and negatives of technology in general:

Ease of access. The truth is that life has never been so easy and more pleasant. With all the conversation tools like mobile phones, laptops, etc., communicating with family and friends who reside overseas is easy.

Mass Communication. Disseminating info to a lot of people is now quick with the Internet and PCs. For this reason it is now feasible to make business transactions worldwide simpler.

Social Relief. Nobody is comfortable facing a person and talking to a large masses, but with computer systems and applications such as Skype, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, one can have a more comfortable option.

Enhanced Productivity. In the commercial world, technology is regarded as a great help and one of the contributors of a company's success. Consider, for example, an automobile manufacturing company. The job of assembling a car or producing a part of a car is made easier by the aid associated with robots and computer systems.

The disadvantage of technology is that it makes man lazy and it inhibits him to physical exercise his mind while he is influenced by the comfort technology provides him. The use of technology is our choice, it is also our own decision whether we will be ruled over by the use of technology.