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  • Essay / How Technology Created Preoccupied Minds - 634

    Technology has had a huge impact on humanity. Nowadays, every human being relies on different technological sources such as the Internet, television and mobile phones to get the information they want with just a click of a button. However, they don't have enough time to pay attention to the larger issues and big-picture perspectives of the details they want. Additionally, most people don't need the amount of information these technology sources provide. As a result, people became preoccupied with fragmented bits of information. Therefore, the three factors responsible for people's concerns are inappropriate information provided by electronic media, lack of consistency and abundance of information. Electronic media is one of the important factors among different contemporary technological sources that provide inappropriate information. An electronic medium keeps us updated with the daily news of the world. Unfortunately, to get better TRP (Target Rating Point) and attention among people, media only shows people the news that helps them gain more TRP and attention. For example, recently, one of the Malaysian Airlines planes heading to Beijing suddenly disappeared from its route. The Malaysian government is unable to find a single reason for the disappearance of the plane till date. Moreover, media all over the world are spreading information regarding the plane bringing different types of theories. As a result, people viewing this news get the information in a limited number of articles, some of which are irrelevant or inappropriate. Usually, people get a lot of information through electronic media. Therefore, if the media gives information that is too little from the point of view of the medium of paper, if a person tries to understand all aspects of this item, it will remain a mystery to him. . So he would not be able to understand the overall perspective of technologies. Therefore, if he decides to buy a computer, he will also be confused about other features including its processor, memory, and life cycle. In conclusion, inappropriate information by electronic media, lack of consistency of information and abundance of information are the three factors that make people concerned about fragmented information. Today, too much information, whether useless or useful, is provided by contemporary technology. However, not every man has enough time to know everything. Therefore, they try to obtain small pieces of factual information and present them to others. As a result, they do not understand the overall perspective of this issue..