civitan essay

20035279 #29
Mrs. M. Turner
Advanced Composition A - Third Hour
7 January 2010
Civitan Essay
What is the difference between snail mail and an email? Almost automatically, everyone would say that email is a lot faster than snail mail. All email would require is the tapping of a couple buttons on a desktop or laptop, a quick click of a “send” button, and the message would shoot off into the enormous internet network. However, snail mail would require the use of writing out the entire message, the retrieval of an envelope and stamp, and a couple weeks of waiting for the letter to be delivered to the intended person. Technology has majorly improved and changed the world just in the last decade. The invention of video game systems, cell phones, portable electronics, and so on, have largely impacted the world and has made almost everything easier to do and accomplish. However, many people have started taking this new technology for granted, and not appreciating the actual reason and use of the object.

One of the greatest changes in technology history is the invention of laptops. Before the invention of laptops, people were confined to their computer desk and desktop when they had things to accomplish, but as the first laptop was invented and now improved, it has made all the impact on everyone in the world. It is now easy to transport your documents from one place to another with just the click of a couple buttons. When the first laptop was invented, it was a big piece of plastic, however, as the decades progressed, laptops itself started to become more and more improved. There are no longer any large or chunky laptops, but now there are laptops that are less than an inch thick. As the decades passed on, the technology for laptops have gotten better and better.

Another great change in technology over the years that has helped improved the life of many people is the cell phone. Like the laptop, the cell phone had been invented more than a couple decades ago and had started out being a big block of plastic. In the last ten years, the changes in cell phones have become phenomenal. People are no longer using the big black blocks that could not fit in pockets, but have now upgraded to small, thin phones, and touch screens. More and more often now, I have noticed almost all my friends have touch screen phones. A decade or two back, we would never have thought of small, thin phones, much less touch screen phones. The change in technology is sometimes scary to think about.
Although there are many electronics and technology related items that have been invented in the past decade, there are also many items that have just been improved. Back when I was about six years old, I remember when the Nintendo 64 had just been invented. The Nintendo was all the rage, and almost every kid I knew had it in their homes. Only a decade later, the Nintendo 64 is now out of date and considered “uncool.” What is all the rage now is the PS3, XBOX 360, and the most new one, the Wii. How in only ten years can the coolest technology turn into something uncool? I know without a doubt that the three most talked about game systems are not the last, for in the future, maybe even in the next decade, more advanced game systems will come out, and make the Wii seem old and out of date.

Without a doubt in the next decade of so, there will be many new changes in the everyday life of an American. Although there are many people who would consider the change in technology to be bad, I would consider the change to be good and helpful to the world. The use of cell phones, laptops, and entertainment has served the world many purposes, and I know that in the future there will continue to be new electronics that will continue to serve the world and help improve and make easy the life of an everyday American and everyone else in the world that uses everyday technology.