The impact of technology on relationships on society

The concept of technology the concept of technology refers to three meanings, which are as follows:

Knowledge investment

Technology is defined as the employment of practical knowledge to fulfill human needs and desires and develop society.

The product of knowledge investment

Technology is defined as the different types and methods that are used to achieve the supplies necessary to facilitate human life, comfort and survival.

Using the product of the knowledge investment

Technology is defined as all the methods that help individuals in their discoveries and inventions to fulfill their needs and desires. Some scientists define technology in its physical and intellectual parts that complement and blend. So that they lead to an integrated meaning of the concept of technology; Where the material part includes all the equipment and machines, and the intellectual side includes the rules and cognitive foundations that lead to production.

 

The impact of technology on society

The use of technology has had many effects on society with all its members and groups, and there is no doubt that these effects are divided between positive and negative effects. Its effect is due to how the individual uses it.

The positive impact of technology on society

·  Facilitating and facilitating the daily life of individuals; The individual can accomplish many works in a little time and effort very quickly, and many individuals' actions, movements, orientations, financial and governmental dealings, education, research, follow-up of news and events, and many details of the technology that made it easier for them to do, were linked in a way they would not have done if the technology did not exist with them.

 

·  Bringing people closer together and shortening the distances between them; Technology has helped make the world look like a small village, so people get to know each other without the need to travel and form relationships and friendships from different parts of the world.

 

· Developing the culture of individuals, expanding their perceptions, and keeping them following all the events of the world without any excuses that prevent them from other societies.

 

·  Developing individuals' capabilities by making available all means of learning; For example, learning languages, learning design programs.

 

·   Bridging opinions and points of view; By making technology available for community communication; This greatly contributed to learning about the opinions and theories of the other party, and their way of thinking and dealing with them, thus increasing their experience, knowledge and way of dealing with problems.

 

·  Developing aspects of economics, medicine and education; Which positively affects the society and its structure.

The negative impact of technology on society

·    Reducing physical contact between individuals; Where remote phone calls and text messages replaced the actual communication closely, which led to a radical change in the concept of cohesion and family cohesion based on help and assistance, and writer Alvin Toffler said in his book The Third Wave: (Civilization has brought us a new family pattern, and changed the ways of work. Love and livelihood, and a new economy emerged, resulting in new political problems, and against the background of all this, human consciousness changed.)

 

·    The proliferation of digital books, newspapers and magazines, replacing them with traditional means; This affected the styles of expression and writing.

 

·   The increase in the requirements of life that an individual must provide and acquire; This costs individual a new burden to provide these capabilities, as it was not previously necessary for the family to acquire television and technological tools for home work, but no family can tolerate the absence of these devices.

 

·   An increase in the demand for electrical energy sources; Where most technology tools operate only with electrical power; This brought societies into modern patterns of consumption.

 

·         The spread of technology has led to the provision of materials that display violence between individuals in societies, whether they are serials or electronic games directed at adults and children, and young people are greatly affected by these cartoon games and series that display violence in a direct or indirect way. Which affects their behavior.

 

·   The alienation of individuals from society; Which leads them to isolate themselves from their community.

 

·  Internet addiction; As the number of Internet users increases day by day, and many of them reach the stage of being addicted to their use; This causes them many family, health and societal problems.

 

·  Facilitate the way for those who want to engage in wrong behaviors such as drug addiction; It isolates them from people and makes them escape from the real reality, and creates a virtual reality for them. This complicates an individual's life and puts him in countless problems.

 

·   Disruption of the abilities of the mind; The more a person relies on technology tools such as computers, the less, accordingly, he uses his mind and memory. This will paralyze the ability to think and disrupt the capabilities of the mind in advanced stages.

 

·   Accustom a person to dependence; Where one is able to obtain information in a few short steps, which has resulted in the imprisonment and limitation of creativity.

 

·  Increasing unemployment rates; This is due to the increasing use of technology in the fields of industry and agriculture, which has led to dispensing with some human efforts in managing these fields.

 

· Technological development and society Technological development in all its forms and means has conquered all modern-day societies and infiltrated all walks of life in them; Technology has become used in various places such as homes, offices and official institutions in the countryside, city and desert, and it has become natural for individuals to deal with it, regardless of their level of civilization or less, and whatever their age group, and thanks to its spread, technology has been able to change the daily life patterns of peoples, whether in the aspect. 

Economic, cultural and social, especially in the category of youth, who are always vulnerable to anything new.

The infrastructure of many societies has changed and developed greatly due to the use of modern technology in recent times, and the technological aspect has become an important and basic aspect in it, as it has brought about a change and transformation in the march of societies at all cultural, political and social levels; However, 

it must be pointed out that the nature of the relationship between technology and societies must be mapped to ensure consistency of technology and modernity with society's values, and to reach a state of conscious adaptation between them.