Which aspects of our daily lives has been affected most by technology?
It's common knowledge that technology permeates all aspects of our life, seeing that we wake up within the sound of alarm clocks on our mobiles and fall asleep, listening to music on our IPods or setting up the awakening time for tomorrow. I suppose, it's not worth mentioning what is going on throughout the day, inasmuch as every particular moment is mainly connected with applying various gadgets that are brainchildren of technology. Hence, technology is justly considered to be global and its tremendous aspect is commonplace truth.
What is more widespread than technology that is certainly communication. The moment as technology coupled with its brainchildren represented by the Internet, gadgets and apps was a tipping point in the sphere of communication. Since then, this phenomenon has deeply altered. Having such a magnificent opportunity to keep in contact with other people day and night is on of the most significant evidence how enormously technology has affected communication. It can be easily deduced in that how frequently the topic is discussed by social scientists who are alarmed of such technology influence on communication that manifests itself as face-to-face communication failures: we're not attentive listeners anymore and even not gifted speakers, we're the people who don't mind having a good conversation but at the same time who have mobiles closely enough to grab them very quickly.
Relationships, as an important communication constituent have been also influenced by technology. They're not personal and private anymore but also social and world open, since we ourselves make them so. Technology coupled with surveillance cameras, unreliable private settings has turned our lives into easily-available data. Everybody can be well-informed, who your partner is, who you friend and and unfriend on Facebook or other social networks, where you are and who you are with.
I deem, everything mentioned leads me to conclusion that communication and relationships have been most affected and, to some extent, suffered by technology. However, if remained positive, only we're able to benefit from a favorable effect that technology has made, and antagonize an adverse effect of such an impact. I believe, we're able to surmount this disbalance.
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Thank you so much again for your help and feedback! It's so significant for me to get information about such peculiarities and nuances in use of English like your note about this strange verb "to deem"! Oh, thank you! I wish you good luck in learning Russian. Russian is really complicated. So big good luck!
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I completely agree; we are able to overcome this imbalance. Technical advances often provoke fear and further problems - global warming, for example - but the solutions to these problems are are necessarily technological. It goes without saying that technology is never stable, and that some parts of it are harder to deal with than others, but the solution can never be to go back to the days of the cave, digging stick and open fire. The trick is to use technology as a tool and not permit ourselves to be used by technology, which is what you say in your last sentence. Incidentally, "deem" is a strange word in English. It is not commonly seen, but widely understood. It is often used in the passive, eg "It was deemed necessary to ...." The sense in which you mean it is usually written simply as "I think that ..." Your writing style is very elaborate and you like tackling issues head on. I only wish that I could do it as well as you in Russian.
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