Too Much Technology?

Today was a sunny day that reminded everyone that summer was here. The weather was beautiful. While I was walking around campus to go to the library during my free period, I saw several students having class outside. They looked really happy, and I was sure that they were having so much fun. That’s when I wished how I had one of my classes outside that day. Luckily, my last class was writing, and we did a fun activity on the outside. It was one of the most fun activities I have done this year. We went outside, and found thirteen adjectives, and thirteen nouns on campus, and took pictures of them. I thought that in my old school I wouldn’t be able to do that, since iPads weren’t used. This activity reminded me the significance of using iPads at school.

After finishing my afternoon activities that day, I headed to my dorm to get some school work done. Reading the news was my priority for every day, so I turned my laptop on, and ended up reading a news about how the usage of iPads can be destructive for people sometimes. The news was about American Airlines, and how they had a hard time while using iPads instead of using papers. American Airlines is one of the companies that uses iPads to determine the routes of flights, to organize the ticket information, and to keep the airline’s information in the iPad. Unfortunately they had an issue with the iPads in these last couple of days, and this issue had affected the airline. American Airlines wasn’t able to control the flights, and wasn’t able to schedule flights. It was a big issue. They even ended up canceling some of the flights. While I was reading the news I was able to get to know the workers’ thoughts. There were a couple of interviews that made me understand the issue better. I think that the writer of this news had done a good job by interviewing people. These interviews can make us learn more about other people’s opinions. 

This news made me think about the future. At school we are using iPads, and I believe that it’s really fun and helpful. Unfortunately when I have had some issues with my iPad, I didn’t know what to do, since I have all my school work in it. Once my iPad is broken, I can’t reach my school work, which can make me have hard time at school while doing my homework.That’s why I don’t think that technology should be something that people depend on in their everyday life. Technology is human made, and nothing that is human made can be perfect, so technology has its flaws, too. Those flaws can make our lives harder, if we depend on technology too much. We should use technology by knowing that it has its limits. It is already a big part of our lives which makes it even harder to cut from our lives. However, I don’t think that we should completely cut it, we should just decrease the usage of technology for important things like managing an airline.