Values and Relationship with Technology

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Techno-optimist
Conservatives would argue that science is constantly fighting against God’s creations. Sincerely speaking, that is not the case. Science complements God's creation. Almost every aspect of life has been positively impacted by the emergence of new technologies. Because of technology, people miles away from each other can communicate either via video call or voice call unlike in the olden days. In essence, without technology almost everything at the moment would come to a standstill, asserting the fact that technology has played an important role in shaping our way of life and will probably continue to do so as more aggressive innovations and inventions continue to emerge. Without any contradiction, I am definitely for the opinion that technology has changed our lives and would do us even better in the near future. In other words, I am a techno-optimist.
From a communication perspective, advancement in technology has given birth to new gadgets such as smartphones, computers, tablets, and even smartwatches. Media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and a few others have had a major influence on the way we communicate. In my own experience, a day without smartphone leave alone without internet access is as good as working naked, feels very awkward. On top of that, if not checking tweets from around the world, I am either on Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp checking on friends’ updates whenever I have my smartphone. Most of the tools that we would require separately like books are readily available on the internet. With search engines like google, bing, yahoo, among others, you can literarily search for anything on the internet.
Tech giants like Microsoft and Apple have come up with personal virtual assistance, Cortana and Siri respectively that have the capability to process natural languages. This has been made possible through the exploration of new technologies, namely Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"M2eaOubt","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Sam et al.)","plainCitation":"(Sam et al.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":535,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/MCGAJRXM"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/MCGAJRXM"],"itemData":{"id":535,"type":"paper-conference","container-title":"2019 IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON)","page":"1–6","publisher":"IEEE","source":"Google Scholar","title":"A Robust Methodology for Building an Artificial Intelligent (AI) Virtual Assistant for Payment Processing","author":[{"family":"Sam","given":"Albert P."},{"family":"Singh","given":"Brijesh"},{"family":"Das","given":"Ananda Swarup"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Sam et al. par. 1). With these virtual assistant technologies, several actions can be performed with little or no effort at all. The visually impaired can now comfortably interact with the computer and do a thing or two, thanks to the virtual digital assistant technologies. In the past, navigating through a new environment was a tough hassle but w...