How has technology affected your life?

Like me, you have probably seen technology changing throughout your whole life. I can remember when, as children, we would play on the streets. Today I still see children playing on the streets but their toys are much more advanced than the bats and balls we used to have.

Suffice to say, the change in technology has had a huge impact on my life and with the new developments, it installed a sense of wonder and excitement at the possibilities that seemed just around the corner.

I would have to say that the rise of technology has made me the person I am today. So how did it affect my life? Well, it showed me the possible future that may eventually arrive. I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to live in that future.

Today, through technology, I am living in a future which, while not actually as envisioned, is getting close and an even more exciting future is being imagined.

Technology has enabled me to move to the other side of the world and live away from my relatives yet has allowed me to be in real time contact with them. It has enabled me to earn a living from an electrical apprentice to being the computer programmer that I am today.

Technology has helped me to grow, it has helped me to learn and to continue learning. In fact, through the use of technology, more specifically the good old internet tubes, I have learned more than I ever did while at school. At least more applicable to real life situations knowledge.

For example, my wife wanted an easel for her painting. I had never built an easel before and what she wanted would have cost a huge amount of money. So I went on the internet, found some plans and built one. It was taller than me so I am not talking about a dinky little thing either.

Without technology, I would not have been able to do that at all. How has technology affected your life? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.

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It's given me a career when I can make 2 - 3 times the amount of money that I'd be making in any other field I'd be qualified for - that is it will as long as my job isn't outsourced to some H1 script monkey that is willing to work for 1/3 - 1/2 the prevailing wage. But, hopefully I have found an employer where that won't happen.

It's also made video gaming much more fun, when you can interact with people all over the globe in MMOs and allows co-op mode on a remote server without having to host on your own equipment.

Searching for information is a lot quicker and more useful, but the flip side is that there is so much opinion out there that real news can get lost in the chaffe of fake news, opinion and "what's trending". It's also presented us with an idiot in the White House who thins tweeting is a proper mode of communication for that office.

The bad side of it is it has created a generation of mindless zombies fingering their phones.

And let's not forget endless cat videos and streaming porn!!! :p


clark 'the dragon' willis


I have been guilty of watching a "cat" video or two :P
