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Do you think we are too reliant on technology?

Over the past few years, technology has grown in ways that we never could have imagined and because of these ongoing developments, our society has been forced to adapt to this new way of living. We have learned to become almost completely dependent on the technology that surrounds us and soon enough, machines will most likely be doing everything for us. We have become so reliant on technology that “42% of teenage girls and 39-45% of teenage boys say that they get anxious when they do not have access to their phones.” However, this issue is not only affecting our generation, but also the generations that have come before us. Parents today depend on technology to entertain their children; doctors rely on it to aid in medical procedures and thousands of jobs are being replaced by machines that are supposedly more efficient and intelligent than any human. It is sad to think that the average age for a child to receive a cellphone is 10 years old. Giving a child a phone at such a young age is not going to benefit them in the future. It is instead teaching them that hours spent on social media and video games is acceptable and even normal or healthy. Technology has become a tool that most people could not live without. If the reliance continues to advance in the direction that it is going, we should be worried about the next generations ability to thrive.

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