A Convenient Tool Makes Us Inconvenient.

There is an old saying in Japan "a convenient tool makes us inconvenient." It means convenient and comfortable tools cause lesser opportunities to think deeply and they weaken abilities to do something for us. This old proverb opposes our modern lives that based on technology completely. Without the technology, we cannot do anything today. Because of the development of technology, our lives actually have flourished and diversified. The reason that I can send my words, feelings and opinions to the world through the blog like this is also due to this development of technology. In the world, every day, there are many news stories that inform us the birth of new technology as good news. However, we cannot say that the development of technology is always to bring us happy because it sometimes makes us thoughtless.

Due to the development of machinery in factories, it brought Mechanization of human work, but it also brought us thoughtless and jobless. In the old days, factory workers knew a stage of production well because every production was handmade. Today, they can create some products by pushing a button once. Thus, today a factory worker can work to just keep watching either machines work well or not. Even if they do not know how production will be made, it is not a problem. Like the above, abilities to create products of a factory worker has declined by technology to create products automatically. Mechanization has made jobless people directly, but it also caused lack of skills to create handmade production.

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Today, everyone has a cell phone. In the old days, a cell phone was a tool has an only function to call up wherever. However, because of development of a cell phone, we can get news that we want to know by pushing a button once. However, when we are passive to think of it, then we cannot avoid swallowing the news we receive because of less ability to think critically. The most dreadful by-product by the development of technology is to degenerate skills to think for a man. We have to learn media literacy.

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Thus, the development of technology makes our lives affluent, but when it is too convenient, then people do not need to think and do anything. Therefore, skills to think and do something of people tend to decline today. The development of technology is ongoing even now. It will never stop, so we have to keep thinking what is technology and how we can use it well in our lives to live together with technology. If we can associate with new technology well, our lives more prosper than if it were not for.