The Age of Understatement: Technology and the Changes It Brings
(Multi-Source Research Essay, Final Draft)
Ahmed Alghamdi
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
LING 102
Daniel M. Tucker
The Age of Understatement: Technology and the Changes It Brings
Every day we hear about new technological improvements, which sometimes it makes me
wonder what is coming next. As human beings, we question everything we experience or
do, and of these questions, we ask ourselves: does technology make our life easier or
harder? In this essay, I weigh the pros and cons of the accessibility technology is providing
us with. Further, I question how the, social media and the information availability through
the internet we have nowadays, how does these things changing our life? Are we better off
without it? Although, technology is making learning things is easier such is learning a new
language through the internet, or educational tv shows. However, technology sometimes
could affect us negatively. Nowadays, the changes on people lives come from their
surroundings, and what they can see with their eyes. Therefore, sometimes we need to be
able to control some of the things we see in the media or through the internet, and make
sure not to make it cause a change in our behavior. In this essay I will analysis the effect of
the technology in our behavior, and the negative effects of this valuable good.
In my perspective, technology improvement is making our life easier, but it’s making
human beings lose their intelligence. Let us compare the past and the present. Nowadays,
any anyone can look up information on Google and find what they are looking for, but in
the past, people used to look up information by reading entire books at a time. Yet, what is
the difference between searching for information on Google or in a book? The difference is
looking up the information in Google or any other website, is we learn what we were
looking for, but searching for information in a book makes learn multiple things until we
get to the points we were trying to look up. Does looking information online or in a book
make a difference? Yes, it does. When look an information online we might forget about in
a week or two or sometimes we do not , but think about when put an afford in reading a
book will we ever forget a book we read? No, because we put afford and time in reading
