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 * Technologies effects on our world**

“Our world is overrun with technology.”-Cinemark I have noticed that day after day technology starts to change my life. I’m on my phone every hour of the day, whether if its to check the time or to see if I received a text or a snapchat. I get into habits where I constantly check my phone, right after I wake up, at lunch (if I’m at school), after school, after golf, and many more times at robotics or my house. If I could get back all the time I’m on my phone or my computer, I could probably have a year back onto my life.

Our generation has grown into the high advances of smart phone, tablets, and computers. The younger generations are born with an I-phone in their hand, and know how to use one by the age or 2 or 3. We are dependent on our 4-inch screens and can’t spend a moment without them. Whenever I leave my phone at home I always feel like some part of me is missing, sounds pretty sad but we all feel the same way, usually. We depend on our devices; it’s like an addictive drug. If you steal someone’s phone they’ll go through all means to find it and to get it back. Today Lucas lost his phone. At first he wasn’t worried because he thought he left it in his car. But he was wrong and when he found out that it wasn’t in his car he started freaking out. I don’t blame him I would do the same, but its shows how weak we are and how we count on our phones to always be by our side or in our pocket..

Without technology our lives would be more difficult, we couldn’t look up trig answers online, we couldn’t get our random questions answered, and we couldn’t check our social media. To me Technology is important and I cant say how blessed I’m to be in this decade. But I wish our world wasn’t run by technology and that we could live like people did in the 1900’s without all of these pleasures. I wish I could just hangout with my friends, without the constant distraction of our phones. Or even the constant bother of “oh lets take a selfie” when were hiking. I’m not complaining, I’m truly thankful for electronics, but I wish I could experience what it was like without them.

I appreciate technology but I wish I could’ve experienced what our parents did. Through technology we grow, smarter, wiser to new inventions. Soon our world will be “overrun with technology” and lead to many new great and also terrible periods. I think that technology will bring human existence to an end, only in a matter of time. If it’s through our inventions, or through controversy, with technology the world will never be the same.