Post Advanced Category- Second Place

 

Second Place: Oleksandr Trokoz

School: NYLC - Jackson Heights

Teacher: Sarah Hesler

Throughout mankind's development, people use various features that make our life easier and more efficient. Today we call it modern technologies. As with everything, they have positive and negative sides.

Although it is hard to argue that new technologies have significantly improved our life, there are people who hold the opinion that it brought danger in our life as well. Some individuals use it in inappropriate way. For instance, cyber thieves are able to steal more money through electronic devices than ever because almost all people use electronic money. Real money have digital equivalent, such as banks accounts, credit and debit cards etc. To put it in another way, today thieves don't need to steal real funds. It is enough to adjust some bank's papers or send transactions to other accounts. Moreover, once Internet was invented they can do this crime wherever around the world sitting in one place. Another example of drawbacks of new technology may be natural discrimination. All people are unique. They have different learning ability in certain fields. Even today a lot of them don't know how to use a computer, a tablet and some of them have a difficulties with using smartphones. In this way people will get worse job due to their inability to gain new skills quickly. Finally, the price for progressive technologies and devices we use for communication and other purposes are incomparably higher than the older one. In this case those who have more money will stay in better position than other people.

On the other side, high tech features have totally enhanced our life. Society has created more possibilities for public and business communication, scientific and home calculation, exploring undiscovered worlds. Ample things that were sophisticated, incomprehensible and inaccessible became so easy and routine today. To clarify, we spend less time than ever on information exchange. A letter from opposite side of the world is delivered in a few seconds. Moreover, we are able to see our relatives on other continents in real-time by using some apps on a smartphone. It makes people closer to each other. Due to new technology people have more free time for their families. It fortifies families which is an incredible part of upbringing of new generations.

Furthermore, the world economy and manufacturers started work faster and more efficiently. Thanks to computers we create new type of food, clothes, housing faster than before because all people involved in this process are connected by one network and make up their minds in a few clicks of mouse. Using new communication technologies give us opportunities to respond on time to difficulties we are faced with in different fields of our life. We can say that high tech  innovations have increased quality of people's lives.

In conclusion, new technologies were and always will be essential wealth for human beings. Without using them and constantly improving, we were further behind than we are now. As all new and prospective modern technologies require from us a sacrifice, some parts of our past must be let go in the name of progress and development.