Xixi Lin
April 23, 2013
Essay#2 Draft#3
Modern Magic
Technology is a big part of our daily life now, but it also comes with many problems. For example, many kids are barely go out and play with friends now, because almost every game we had played in outdoor with our friends, they can play with the computer or Apple products. Also, many people get back pain problem because they spend too much time with technology produce. However, despite those bad effects, I still think it is very helpful. In my personal situation, it makes my job much easier, and it makes the cost of communication with my parents who live in China easier, more flexible and cheaper.
I am a buyer. My job position is looking at and recording new fashions and their prices in the market. After that, I have to organize all of the information I get and then show them to my clients. Also, I help my client to pick and buy their clothes. Since most of my clients live in China, the computers, digital cameras, and smartphones are very important to me. Only working with them could make me able to give timely information and personal responses to my clients. In contrast, I can imagine that if there is no technology like we have today, I wouldn’t be able to make this job work. The fashion market is changing very fast, either styles or prices. I believe if I could only use the post mail like we used in the past to contact client who live far away, if I could only use the original film cameras to take pictures and wait for the film to develop, then I wonder that when they got the information and prices, most of them would have changed or expired.
The other reason why I think current technology is a good thing in my life is the cost of communication. I still remember many years ago, the international calls were so expensive. For example, if I wanted to talk with my parents of an hour, it would cost 20 dollars, but now it is different. With a smartphone and the internet, I can talk with them as long as I want. In addition, it’s no limit and totally free! Furthermore, there are so many different ways to do it, like Facetime, QQ (a Chinese APP), Skype, and many others. The most amazing part of these tools is they are all go with images, people can talk face to face, and it makes each other’s distance magically shorter.
Therefore, even people have different experiences and opinions of the technology, I always think it has many more advantages than bad effects. For me, it likes the magic, make many impossible things in the past becoming possible now.
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