Smartphones: positive and negative impact on society
In our contemporary world, smartphones are playing a very important role in people`s life. It’s a technology that keeps on developing everyday to make the life of each person easer, but the real question is what do people feel about the raped development and impact of such a technology on the society? To answer these questions, I decided to analyze the impact of smartphones on our society in this blog especially since it will help me work on developing a smartphone design project that I will be involved in soon. Of course, both positive and negative impact exist and must be analyzed separately.
Redesigning smartphones resulted in a technology that can keep you busy for most of the day. In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. As Torilsmith says “everyday I witness someone trip on a crack in a sidewalk, almost tumble down flights of stairs, run into trees and have to slam on breaks…all as a result of being mesmerized by their smartphones” (Torilsmith, January 2012) Moreover, another negative impact of the improvement of smartphones is that it is changing the social norms of our lives. People are starting to be disrespectful without noticing that being busy on their smartphones is the reason. There are many things that show how redesigning and improving smartphones change our social norms. For example, teenagers now a days are texting all the times and adults are receiving work-related phone calls or emails during holydays. Once again, these are just certain negative impacts of smartphones on the society that we must keep in mind while working on improving that technology.
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