Research Paper on The Effects of Technology on Your Health

Technology is everywhere, in our homes, jobs, and even schools, but can this be bad? Technology can cause problems, the first one being losing communication with others. It can also affect the overall health of a person.

Technology is making those lose communication with others. In the story, The Veldt and the Veldt film, kids become addicted to the nursery. The parents of the children gave them this nursery that changed with their thoughts. As the kids became attached to the nursery, they lost communication with their parents. When their parents wanted to turn off the nursery, the kids were not happy. This resulted in the parents getting killed by the nursery and kids. When the kids lost communication with their parents, they felt that the nursery was more involved than their parents. 

Technology can harm the overall health of a person. In the article “Screen Addiction Among Teens: Is There Such A Thing?”  It starts by saying “Look up from this screen right now”. As you might be able to look up from your screen, some can not and this has become a problem. Parents Introduced technology to kids at a young age, "I started playing [video games] when I was around nine years old," said Griffin. Griffin started playing video games and found it fun. As he got older Griffin, he preferred playing games over socializing or confronting his problems. Researchers studied the effects of screen time on teens, Some got so invested in the game that they didn’t get up to use the restroom.

 In the therapeutic Summerland camps, Bishop has two groups. There are the ones that fall behind in their social skills. They are the ones who spend too much time on video games. They end up being too invested in the game instead of socializing. There is also a group of those who overuse social media. Such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Tiktok platforms. This group is usually obsessed with taking selfies. They may not have used social media in a great way and could have used it to bully others online. “Technology and media overuse is thought of as a symptom of something else, such as depression, anxiety, or ADHD. Some ask if, media is causing problems. If the question is being asked, then there is a problem. Those who ask think the kids might benefit from getting help, which they do by having and making better relationships with technology.

Some people disagree with all this and think that technology is a great and marvelous thing. In the article “ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK PLANS TO HOOK HUMAN BRAINS DIRECTLY TO COMPUTERS”. He states that humans are going to get too far behind technology. He introduces the Neuralink, the Neuralink, which is flexible “threads” that link a computer in with our brains. How is this going to work? Elon says himself that technology is going to see us as pets. Why are they trying to make humans more like technology? Technology is already affecting the brain and health of young kids and teens. If Neuralink is going to help, then why hasn’t it been tested on humans?  The reasoning could be that it is not safe. Imagine if humans could connect to computers, that would affect the brain tremendously. The humans that are involved with the computers could faint or die, these are factors to consider. 

Technology is everywhere, and it is evolving, but is it a bad thing?  Well, technology is affecting health among young kids and teens. In addition to losing communication with others. Technology has, unfortunately, had many sides to it that can be seen as negative. So is it bad you tell me?