Question

The case made the point that automation is often a double- edged sword. Provide at least three examples where the invention of a technology provided both benefits and prob- lems for a society.

Answer 1

In this modern scenario, technology and automation is now integrated part of humans life. We cannot imagine our daily life without automation. People are surrounded by automatic devices like mobile phones, computers, and automatic machines to make their personal life easy. But as it gives benefits to society it also harms the society as well. We can understand that with some following examples.

• Mobile phone is the most used automatic device by people now a days. It makes the life easier and speedy. We can be in contact with the world in seconds easily, device is useful for many good purposes, but with that everyone is using social connections being busy with their mobile phones or we can say smart phones that is dangerous. Most people are busy with their phones while attending parties or ceremonies as well which harms social life of that person.
• We can explain this with example of children also, as after technological growth and automation most children don’t know the value of play grounds and outdoor games they are just busy with automatic video games, smart phones, and author technological instruments and also losing social connections, which is not at all good for their overall growth. But some of the devices and true use of internet can help in growth of children very well.
• After automation production has become very easy and speedy which was never before because of new automatic machines which is very good for country on other hand due to automation people are replaced by machines which causes unemployment.
• At last the very basic example of automation is calculator also we can do any calculations in just minutes, ad which is very much easy, but before that people used to calculate this all using their brains and they were very sharp. But now we people find calculator for just any small calculations.
• Automation provides easiness, speed and luxury to people’s lives but also a reason behind global warming, excess use of this automatic devices increases pollution and heat in environment which is very dangerous for everyone.

So, from above example we can understand that invention of technology provide both benefits and problem for a society.