With improvement in technology by the day, tonnes of new tech gadgets, devices, games and other related innovations to keep us informed and entertained are being developed. No doubt, one of the expectations from the improvement in technology is increased productivity. If not checked, however, the productivity of the average tech gadget or device user today may likely start to decline.
Why do I say so? It simply is because of the distraction that some of these tech gadgets, devices and other activities online are causing, to contribute to the decline in productivity. Ordinarily, one would expect that with the many text tools that are cropping up every day, productivity should also increase automatically. In some cases, this is not so but it largely depends on usage.
The interesting thing about technology is that, both the good side and the bad side of it exist in reality and they both abound on the internet. Before the advent of the internet, however, improvement in technology had always had its good side and bad side.
Take, for instance; the invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel in the 19th century, to help blow up rocks to allow for construction of roads, rails, etc. also created the opportunities for bad use of technology to start using dynamite in the production of mass military weapons and for use by miscreants to blow up rail lines and banks, etc. so they can rob trains, banks, etc.
This twist in use of an otherwise good process to simplify the use of breaking rocks into use for an evil cause prompted Alfred Nobel to initiate the Nobel Prize for just causes, one of which was the Nobel Prize for peace. This, he did, to make up for the bad use of his invention when an obituary titled “The merchant of death is dead” was mistakenly put out for him when the newspaper thought he had died, not knowing that it was his brother that died.
Today, the social media platforms, created for simplifying access to information and also for the ease of communication among people, are now sort of slowing down work and adversely affecting productivity at work for many adults and in school, for many youths and students.
Instead of facing their studies, many students prefer to watch movies online, play the numerous games available online, chat all day with their friends on the various social media platforms on their devices.
The resultant effect of this is scoring low grades in examinations and in many cases, falling for various scams and antics evolved online by — Finish Reading on the Punch
