May Entry 2 - How has the development and discovery of various tools in technology helped in modernization of the current world?

 

TOK ESSAY

KQ:- How has the development and discovery of various tools in technology helped in modernization of the current world?

The world is a vast area of land and water. Every little thing on earth, including us has made a change to at least a single factor indirectly affecting the world. Modernization of things has really helped in the discovery of new tools and has also helped in making life a lot easier for us. However does every single soul agree that all types of advancements in any field, may it be tech or science, is good? That is what I am going to be analyzing today!

When we take modernization, the first thing that honestly comes to mind is technology. Technology is one of the largest advancements we have made till date and it is still going. It has really helped us expand research base for a variety of different genres. However there are arguments that arise for the reliability of the information we get from modern technology. However those arguments have been continuously proved wrong with groundbreaking results in the expansion of knowledge.

Let us take the medical field as the first example. In the olden days we had very limited if not no technology. It was handmade instruments and a whole lot of intuition. Approximations and estimates were very common; however a good job was done in these circumstances as well. However as technology came into picture modern advancements in medicine sky rocketed. It made complicated procedures have way better success rates due to in depth planning and tools of technology to guide. Many surgeries and procedures that we could not even do in the past are being done now.

Many organs of the body that we could not even touch are currently being operated on. All of these things and these crazy miracles are due to advancements in our technological stats. If a person’s heart was to be operated on, then the person needs some sort of mechanism to be able to transport blood and breathe, or else the person would die. Here we put the person on life support. This is a machine. This is a bunch of wires and mechanical parts. This is technology! Without that the operation would never even be possible!

If we move on to another profession, completely based on technology, it would be an IT software worker. Now just think, everything they do, they do it with a device, a laptop, anything. All of that is technology. Now imagine finance. If people had to manually sit and calculate every one of their client’s bills, then manual errors are sure to happen. For this they run the money through a counting machine. They double check it too. So it is quite fast. Then also sometimes, if it is to digitally total something, there is use of calculators or an excel sheet which is on a laptop.

All of these components are technology. Honestly without any of these advancements we would not have experienced a different face of life. An easier, more adaptable, face of life. Technology is a very powerful tool that has been discovered to help aid people in different tasks. So the argument for technology being reliable is an argument to be considered. There are places where technology might have been less accurate. However if you compare the things we have achieved till this date, it would have all been impossible without technology.