English 11 Honours

Technology Paragraph

As a society, we have gone past the point of no return with our dependence on technology. Technology nowadays takes away jobs from people and hands them over to robots, our education is in the hands of electronics, and even the way we create connections is through blue light emission. As life goes on, we become more and more reliant on technology, not necessarily saying it’s a bad thing however, we rely on it to teach, heal, and connect us around the world. At this point, society is in the market of hiring robots over real humans, for example, “In 2014, the Associated Press began to use artificial intelligent software to write quarterly earnings reports. Up to 3000 reports are being written by AI every quarter, the Verge reported.” (Fast Company). This is a perfect example of how the short story, “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” by Roald Dahl is coming to life in the world today. The end of the short story is when we see writers being taken over by a machine, “[T]he first full year of the machine’s operation – it was estimated that at least half of all the novels and stories published in the English language were produced by Adolph Knipe upon the Great Automatic Grammatizator… I can feel my own hand creeping closer and closer to that golden contract [of signing with the Great Automatic Grammatizator]…” (The Great Automatic Grammatizator). This quote shows how jobs are being taken over by AI and people rather sign away their right to write to be able to afford life instead. The jobs AI are taking aren’t necessarily dangerous either, Amazon Gois a great example of this because cashiers, managers, etc. are being laid off due to the efficiency of technology and how humans cost more in the long run over AI. As well as, hospitals rely on technology to save lives on a day to day basis. Physicians no longer have the skills to perform certain surgeries/procedures because of robots being able to perform them better. National Post reports, “Doctors are losing hands-on diagnosis skills by relying too much on technology” meaning if the technology were to fail, physicians today wouldn’t be able to diagnose or even treat patients as well as they used to when technology wasn’t so critical. In conclusion, society is starting to lack useful skills such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity and started to exchange them for health problems, losing real-life connections, and careers being taken over.

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