Lina Shkilko ( the best writing )

June 2, 2013

Technological Helpers.
Imagine, you are on the subway platform. You see rats on the rails. You are hearing loud thunder of metal wheels. Trains, with different color circles and letters, are going to unknown you destination. You can't ask anybody, because you are alone on this station. Scared human being, your skin are covered by goose bumps, and... Eureka! I put my hand on a pocket of jeans and squeeze my smart phone. Technology! Thank God! We have technology in nowadays. I took my iphone and smiled. Small brown application “subway map” was looking at me through the smart phones screen and helped me found shortest way to my home.
We use technology every day, everywhere. For example, I use ‘‘Subway map’’ application every day in the subway. Despite the fact that I have live in New York fourteen months, sometime I can be baffled with all these station and different numbers of train. Today, like usually, I used my phone in the morning to research which of the station on my way can offer me transfer for right train to my destination. My small helper “Subway map” like always gave me right advice. As a result I came to my lovely lessons in the BMCC in time.
Sometime, when I think about ancient people I feel sympathy about haw they lived. No planes, no internet and smart phones. Theirs ability and resources were so limited. Only carriage with horses , and pigeons or postman, who delivered letters. Our ancestors needed ages for sending letters or communicate by distance. In 13th century famous Moroccan traveler Marco Polo spent 15 years, from 1276 to 1291, to reach Indonesia from Asia across Persia and China. But now it is doable in several hours by plane.
It seems easy to check a weather forecast in the morning and reply to emails the same time. You can calculate your road time to your destination on “Hop Stop” application and see your best friend in the Skype, in spite of the fact that she or he lives of another site of the globe. It is a typical morning for average human being, in nowadays.
I came to the U.S. 14 month ago, I am a new immigrant who lives in NYC, and I can say ,”I am real New Yorker”, and I can say. ”I can't imagine my life without technologies”.
The most useful gadget for me is iphone. I think all smart phones make our life more comfortable , interesting, safer, and more organized. I can't underline more important application or service, but I fully aware how I addictive from all application in my phone. This smart device is real helper in different sites of my life.
Sometime I realize how strongly I miss some people, who very dear to me, but between us a big distance. And how these amazing technologies, give us a possibility to communicate with each other and feel pleasant emotions. I am also happy that we have a Skype and Viber.
Now almost all people addictive, in good meaning of this word from internet and smart phones. I think it is very positive tendency, which improving our life and give us more possibilities for our health, work, emotions and communication.