Impact Of Technology On The Health Of People Across The Globe

Technology has been advancing ever since mankind discovered how to make fire. We have continuously built upon each new technology developed, which has led to the dominance of our species across the globe. We are one of the few species that have the ability to produce and use tools. Technology has been continuously improving our standard of living but have the advancements gone too far? Modern technology has begun to consume our lives instead of enhancing our lives, and this has had more consequences than positives. Although the advancements in technology have had positive aspects, tools that we are creating now are having more adverse effects than positive effects when used improperly. Technology’s largest positive impact has been its†¦show more content†¦This allows patients to get the proper treatment as soon as possible before a disease spreads. Take cancer for example, in the body it spreads every minute. The sooner it is diagnosed and treated the higher the chan ces of survival for this horrible disease. There are countless other diseases that modern technology has been able to detect and cure which is why the average lifespan has been lengthened so drastically. Computerized technology however is not the only strides made in the medical field. The development of new medicines to combat the different pathogens have made tremendous progress in the past few decades. These medicines and vaccines have helped us cure millions and have made some diseases that wiped out entire populations in the past irrelevant now. Smallpox, a terrible diseases that has been haunting humanity for centuries, killed over 300 million people in the 20th century alone (WHO). Due to the work of modern medicine small pox has been eradicated and the only strains of it exist in laboratories. The negative aspect of the continuous use of these medicines is that generation by generation autoimmunity in our bodies has decreased. The reason for this is because we don’t use our immune system as much because we rely on so much medicine even for the smallest of diseases. These medicines like antibiotics used to be deemed the all curing tools but only the fact is that this is only true when they are used properly. When taking antibiotics if