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Technology In The Giver

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Technology is advancing year after year in society. It benefits our community in daily life. Mainly, science fiction novels are a reflection of the useful technology that we use each day. This is the case in The Giver, by Louis Lowry. In this science fiction novel, technology is used each second of every day to help protect the community. The community of The Giver takes place in the future, and consists of a very boring life, living the same life each day. The people of the community do not realize how bland their life's are as they are told what to do each day. However, In the book, The Giver, by Louis Lowry, technology impacts daily life in positive, beneficial ways. In the novel, The Giver, technology benefits the society by keeping the …show more content…

All around the world, humans are using technology in every minute of every day. People may not even realize how often technology is used, perhaps this is because it is used every day around us for work, safety, entertainment and even food. Technology is one that we all take for granted, when we should realize how beneficial technology is in the world, how it helps everyone each day. Technology "has been created to help better our future. We need technology to help with our ever changing society" (http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-moving-too-fast). Our society is moving at great pace each year, coming up with new inventions for almost everything. The one tool that helps the human race progress and an even pace and stay in control: technology. Because as the world goes, more problems have arisen and technology has helped to keep us from going under as a nation. Technology is what is keeping us out of the dark ages" (http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-moving-too-fast). Without technology, all of the best medicines would not of been made, tested, and put out into hospitals to cure people. As "the faster technology moves, the more advanced our society can become. Only beneficial outcomes can come from technology" (http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-moving-too-fast). Without phones and computers, people's work would be disorganized and a lot of people, all over the world, would not have a job due to the fact that millions of humans around the universe work on computers. In America at least, "we are handling our technology like phones, computers, and medications and a great rate to keep all inventions in line and accurate" (http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-moving-too-fast). All over the world, technology is used to help and improve the life of

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