Nowadays, whether the development of daily inventions and technologies are beneficial or detrimental to society has attracted numerous controversies and drawn the attention from the public. In my opinions, an invention such as the computer has both pros and cons to our daily life.
First and foremost, it has been argued that the technological reason is why I think computer are beneficial to our society. The potential positive impact that the invention of the computer has in many ways enormously changed people’s life must be taken into account. For example, with the invention of the computer, we can deal various tasks just by a click of a button in few minutes, which might take years of time to accomplish in many years ago. In addition, the computer allows distant education that is beneficial to a student in developing countries by giving him the access to a lecture of any professors in the developed countries such as the United Kingdom and America.
However, another factor should be considered is the physical and psychological reasons, which in other words, the people are getting lazy, obese and introvert with the existence of the computer. This could be particularly a cause of people addicted to their own world with computer games, massive Internet information and reluctant to communicate with others. A recent research published in The Scientist that 80% of people have more or fewer health problems because people are leading a sedentary life due to the invention of the computer and other electronic equipment.
In conclusion, I hold the view that the recent invention of the computer has both advantageous and disadvantageous aspects on people’s life. To address this issue, the government, and the society should make a concerted effort to find solutions.
