Human Society

Technology has changed human society in many ways and each way being different. The purpose of technology is to make our lives more convenient and the human race stronger and more intelligent. These technologies are as simple as hand held portable computers to get information on the spot, computers that will type for you so that you can multi-task, and the all time favorite, texting. These simple advances in technology are just minor advances compared to various technologies such as tunnels that allow humans to travel underwater or into outer space and weapons capable of demolishing an entire country.
One way technology has changed human society is in how humans perceive themselves and interact with one another. People see themselves as being stronger more capable of becoming the dominate person in a situation and in them feeling powerful, people become more hostile. In an article How Technology Changed Our Society, Maheen Mirza states, “The very idea of man has undergone change under the influence of machines. Previously man was thought to be a weak creature. He suffered from ignorance and superstition. Now he is all-powerful. Machines have badly affected the thinking power of man. There has taken place a decline of attention.”
A technological advancement that has an immense impact on human society is weaponry. In olden times violence in society was done out of passion with a knife or a blunt object. Now a day’s people are capable of planning and premeditation. In the past a person had to be strong to shoot a bow and then society advance to weapons that took a less strength. Such as guns, the earliest gun had to be loaded with gunpowder and now a person would have to be knowledgeable on how to load gun powder, but these weapons could not be left in a state of readiness due to the fact the powder would get damp and go off. Today people in society are capable of keeping weapons that require less strength and knowledge on the weapon, therefore keeping their weapon in a state of readiness. So that violence is no longer an act of passion but it can be premeditated.
The impact of this change is that humans no longer see themselves as incapable of undertaking a task. They feel they are capable of anything with their weapons backing them up. With this thought in society, people become more aggressive and therefore creating more violence in society. I find this to be tremendously negative for human society. Instead people of working and cohabitating in a society peacefully, they want to dominate. This makes one question if we should still refer to society as human society.
I will leave you with a quote from Martin Luther King. Junior, “If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”