Is more technology always good?

"The problems of technology today is not to satisfy basic needs, but reform the damages caused by yesterday's ' technology." Says Dennis Gabor, one of Nobel Prize winners in 1971.He said this earlier before witnessing how technology will affect our lives 40 years later. 
Technology has facilitated our lives a lot in the previous decades, life became easy, as a click of a button. But in return, technology has influenced our consumption of everything and thus  we must find ways to moderate these changes.

Technology and our food craving intensity
Coming to the year 2015, technology changed how we think about food, and what we crave. Today if you’re hungry anytime and anywhere, you have a world of options to choose between. Food became trendy indeed, from the era of cupcakes to burgers to the era of clean eating recipes.

Our screens consumptions increased our food consumption ,according to Kit Yarrow a psychology professor, we get more bored easily, we are multi- tasking and get distracted more easily so eating is becoming the way out. We now have less time for cooking or food preparation, which increases our online surfing looking for something to eat at the office. With the spread of apps like Engezni and Otlob, a list of menus with marketing offers are available all the time, ordering lunch became one click away. McDonald's France is starting a 24/7 vending machines since they found that most of their revenue is earned from midnight till 5:00 am. 

Not only changing how much food we consume but what we eat, technology has never failed to leave us speechless. A Japanese company used technology to produce a quick homemade burger meal, all that you need are their powder sachets, water and a microwave. The video illustrates how to prepare “Happy Kitchen” burger and french fries meal. In a very dynamic world, where everything is moving fast, we are racing to satisfy our needs and wants, many people could find this meal very fulfilling. On the other hand, processed food has its own offenders and well known side effects. Will we reach the day where these powder sachets are widely consumed in Egypt?

Emotional consumption
Aside our consumption of “things” whether food or energy, the Internet and its devices impact our social, mental and emotional health. Online social media has an impact of the average human being’s happiness as instead of connecting people, it became a tool for isolation,  stress, and the lack of social skills. Being attached to virtual communication decreases family and social bonds in general. This resulted in the mobile application that measure your smartphone usage and is able to tell you when it is time to leave your screen and do something else.

Aside the emotional consumption, the internet allows you to say things online that you wouldn’t dare to say in person. This increased what is called the “Cyber bullying” which according to reports led to less self-expression among teens, and more depression cases when people always get negative comments on what they do on social media. Imagine what will happen after Facebook launches the new dislike button.

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”- Sydney Harris. 

We can never deny the technological benefits but do you think the costs of technology are paying off? or do we need to maintain our tech consumption?