Can tech make a better world?

Could we have a world without technology? Would progress be possible without it? Until now, the mjority of our progress, if not all of it, has been thanks to technology. But, is depending on these advances a negative thing?

It is true that technology has created new problems, such as the addiction to be connected all the time and the loss of privacy. It can be "antisocializing" people, because we prefer technology over face-to-face meetings. Plus, the planet has suffered because of the massive need of materials.

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On the other hand, technology has clearly improved our lives. From medical advances to transports, globalization and education. If we knew how to solve the cons it has, it would also be able to correct them. We can't imagine our lives without technology: without energy, information, comunication... Behind the majority of new discoveries there are tech advances that make it possible to know our world better and be able to help and improve it.

So in the end we can say that technologies give us the opportunity to make a better world, if we know how to use them.

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