[风雨与共] Issue习作 Issue 16 by【7】

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TOPIC: ISSUE16 - "Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life are entirely harmless, in fact, they actually prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals."
WORDS: 453          TIME: 00:90:00          DATE: 2011/1/30 18:01:58

越写越退步了好像……

With the development of technology, people's life is growing increasingly convenient.  But along with the benefit of technologies, many problems are also brought by technologies, such as people are prevented from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.


Today's world are becoming more and more convenient, people's life are becoming more and more luxury.  For instance, present life benefit so much from automobiles, which are used by people for going to work place, travel to a distant place, etc. There is so much convenience benefited from automobiles. For those rich people, some of today's cars are becoming more advanced; as a result the driving is becoming easier. There is GPS (Global Position System) for guiding people to any unfamiliar places, so that people can easier to find the way, and no longer must have a map and look hardly for his position on the map. And the auto driving system is about to be born, which can drive the car automatically to the place you want to go, or to pick up you at your position. In a word, many things are never necessary for people to do it by self.


However, whether this is a good thing or bad thing. I think we should split the issue into two pieces. On one hand, it prevents people becoming strong and independent; on the other hand, it makes people have more time to do more intellectual things and have more thinking time. For example, cars make people never need to walking to work place or other somewhere, which will cause people depending on cars, and less wanted to walk to somewhere on his own feet. If someday the car is broken down, the outgoing perhaps will become a real puzzle. And many present people are too depending on cars, and they merely take sports. If there were no cars for them, probably they will get exercised through walking, but unfortunately they have. The cars then become a factor prevent they keep healthy.


Nevertheless, the conditions aren't that all people who have cars will become weak and dependent. On the contrary, many people become stronger and more independent, because they have used the convenience better. Cars makes people to cost less time on the road, this means people have more time to do their things. They can use them to take exercises in order to keep themselves healthy and become strong. They can also use them to read books and learn more knowledge, so that they can keep their mind independent which is even more significant than physics.


To sum up, technology make things become convenient and life become luxury. Whether this is a good thing or evil depends on the way people utilize them.