How technology has changed Human society and its impact
Technology has changed human society in so many ways in many areas of our lives. If each of us takes a moment to look around ourselves and study the area right where you are sitting, be it at home, or in the car, at work, just about anywhere we go, technology is impacting our lives many times without us knowing or having to think about it. Take for example the our cars, to us we just put in a key and away we go. Never do we really stop and take a second to to think about what all is going on when you turn that key, all the computer processes that happen just to open the door with your remote. How many computers are working to start the car and to keep the engine running. As long as it starts we just gas and go.
Well now, let’s say we are the vehicle, we are this nice running fine tuned machine that has to start every morning that needs to keep running to do everything we need to do and move and take us everywhere we want to go. But what happens when our vehicle, ie: our body needs repair, were do we go? How do we get “fixed”. Obviously we can’t run our body down to the local shop, we usually end up in a hospital which is our shop for humans. Just like the intricacies of an automobile which need special mechanics and special tools, we ourselves need specialized doctors with special equipment to keep us well and fine tuned. Of this I have personal knowledge and experience.
Everyday we hear of someone falling ill to one disease or another or, breaking a bone, needing an operation. Before advanced medical technology and we fell ill, the usual procedure by the doctor was to listen to your heart, take our blood pressure with some manual primitive way, and take your weight and so on. There was no much more than that. And to finally diagnose what ailed you we went thru a process of elimination and, a series of bodily fluid tests which took from a few days to a few weeks depending on the test. By the time we got the results, we were either on our death beds getting our last rights read to us or, time took care of our illness and, as Murphy’s law works, we would get test results after we recovered and we were being discharged and ready to go home.
Now with modern medicine and the advance in medical technology, the processes previously mentioned now take anywhere from a few minutes, a few hours but rarely more than a couple three days.
From personal experience, I will mention surgery on brain tumors and from just five years ago, how technology In this short period of time has changed. When I had my brain resection, (where they take out the tumor and surrounding brain tissue), the procedure included removing a large section of my skull to remove the affected tissue then, the bone was put back in place and mounted with screws leaving a large scare and in the process misshaping the skull its self.
Now, just in this short period of time, there is a new procedure called “Endoscopy” where they no longer have to open the skull and remove a large section of the skull, this procedure http://www.brain-tumor.org/213_Technology_Advances.html seen at this site, shows the changes the advances form what used to be have to be done, and how it is done today with minimum invasiveness.
The result of these advances now saves lives that were high risk operations are now done with little risk to the patient. The advance in medical technology In many fields has made a positive impact on the lives of patients that without these advances might have died. In addition people have less recovery time and a greater chance of a full recover without complications. Until recently none of this would be possible without new technology, more people would die from curable diseases operative procedures that were high risk
