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TECHNOLOGY: BOON OR BANE? Look around you. What do you see? A pencil, an eraser, a ballpen, electric lamps, electric fans, clothes, shoes, toothpaste, soap etc. almost everything around us are products of technology.

 Technology has greatly influence human activities. Advances in communications like fax machines and cellular telephones led to rapid information exchange. Advances in transport system like supersonic transport (SST) and bullet trains led to greater mobility. Advances in medicine like organ and fetal transplant led to longer life expectancy. Technology also affected industry and politics. As a consequencesof improvements in industrial technology, there is economic growth. This in turn affects politics. Highly industrialized countries exercise global power. They can influence political organization of underdeveloped and developed countries.

 In short, technology improved our standard of living, health, transportation sys, communication, etc. But technology if abused can cause environmental degradation. Technology produces by-products that will pollute and destroy the ecological balance in depletion of natural resources through unmindful exploitation of nature.

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