Is technology destroying our society?
Eidan Khan Parhiar
Institute of Software Engineering
MUET, Jamshoro, Sindh
Pakistan
eidankhan11@gmail.com
+923013629869
ABSTRACT
The scope of this research paper covers the possible impacts of
technology used that can lead a society towards progress
or destruction.
Technology has undoubtedly advanced our society, smart phones,
tablets, and computers have made tasks much easier and more
efficient, and they have also allowed us to communicate on a
global scale. However, is technology always beneficial? What
happened to the days when children would play together on the
swings at the park instead of sitting their butts playing “Candy
Crush”.
It also provides some solutions which will be helpful to save our
society from disaster.
Keywords
Emotionally, ethically, lieu, turmoil, secrets of truth, clear
manifestation of truth
1. INTRODUCTION
People destroy, we destroy each other and ourselves emotionally,
ethically, and physically, no matter what is available [1].
Although this technological world has made our life simple, it has
connected us with the whole universe we are living in, and has
reduced time to finish the work with the help of introducing
powerful machines, but it has produced bad impacts on the
society as well like, killing human beings with bombs within a
short interval of time, excess use of social media apps and porn
sites by our young generation etc. So our approach should be
towards avoiding wrong choice otherwise our technology will
destroy us.
In order to save our society one should avoid these things that kill
human beings, snatch life of the gamer by playing suicide games,
leave bad impact on our society.
1.1 Methodology
This research paper will give you the answers of the questions
given below:
➢ Does technology make life easy?
➢ Is technology need of everyone?
➢ Is technology playing a better roll in the advancement of
the world?
➢ Technology need or want?
➢ Is technology harmful for human beings?
➢ Why young adults feel uncomfortable with silence?
➢ Why students lack the discipline to sit through one-hour
classes?
To answer the aforementioned questions I would like to put light
in the following way:
Yes, technology has made life easy:
Actually, we are surrounded with technology which has made our
life easy and has connected us with the every corner of our
galaxy .Take the example of social media apps by which we can
chat with our buddies, relatives, office workers and so on in very
short amount of time. It has also decreased the time to travel from
one place to another place with the help of introducing different
techniques of traveling like planet, boats and trains. In nut shell, it
is helping us a lot.
No, technology is not need of everyone:
Now moving to next question it is not the need of everyone rather
it is want. To justify my statement I would like to explain it with
the help of following example. Technology should be
implemented where it finds its supreme applicability.
For example, the students at lower level should not use electronic
devices such as calculators, tablets, and mobiles because these
devices become barrier by which students become habitual and
they don’t use their own minds to compute the results of the
problems with their own minds which weakens the power of
thinking for solving a unit problem of computation by applying
different techniques.
To some extent technology is playing good role:
To some extent technology is playing better roll in the
advancement of the world but it has showed unexpected results
that are destroying our society, our climate, young generation etc.
For example, Technology has given birth to such powerful
weapons that kill human beings within short range of time, which
is not good for the peace of our society. Moreover, we all are
guided in the most read Book in the world, Al-Qur’an in the
following way:
Whoever kills a human being except in lieu of killing or turmoil in
earth, so it shall be as if he had killed all mankind [2].
Fatwa of the Scholars of Islam for above part of verse:
Killing of innocent people has no place in Islam until they don’t
repent for what they have done whether knowingly or
unknowingly.
On the other hand, industries are destroying our ozone layer that
gives birth to different diseases which may lead to death.
Furthermore, modern technologies are responsible for consuming
the time of the young students because in majority, the students
are not taking these technologies for their betterment, they just
use them for passing time, to avoid solitude, to chat with buddies
and so on.
Some modern technologies are used in the field of artificial
intelligence which are becoming harmful day to day to human
beings as it gives birth to such machines which are not under the
control of the designers of the machine, more appropriately these
machines are auto means work at their own will power and in
future, if not stopped, these machines may leave bad impacts to
our society, country, and even world; due to which we will be
unable to avoid all this and this is how this temporary world will
come to an end (Inshallah).
No, technology is want
No doubt, technology has made our life easy we use different
technologies to handle the different tasks whether these tasks are
simple or complex. However most of the technology in the
majority of society’s day to day doesn’t really help people! And
unfortunately, it’s all taking a turn for the worse. From here on out,
tech will get more and more useless. Does anyone really need
Facebook? Do we need touch screens in our cars? Do we need
touch screen fridge? Do we really need Bluetooth headsets? No,
we got around just fine without anything like that. Just go back 30
years ago and see how happy people really were. Now spending
time with friends’ means going on your phones [3]. So, to handle
this situation and to save our generation from disaster we should
follow our needs not the wants because wants are never to end.
Anything beyond the need can harm:
Nothing is harmful unless you take it in access. Take an example
of water, if you drink it just to kill of your thirst then it is
beneficial for you, but if you take it in access then it can harm you.
Likewise technology is not harmful to us as long as we use it for
the purpose of our necessarily needs. But if we give preference to
our wants then we have to face its bad impacts as well because
wants make servant out of king.
By wants I mean we should not introduce such powerful devices
and machines that can be used to save human efforts but can be
dangerous to a nation, country, or even world.
Silence says a lot more than you think [4]
In this era of modern technology, young adults often feel
uncomfortable with silence. So most of the time they are busy in
using cell phones. To some extent, feeling uncomfortable with
silence is better, but one should not have to feel uncomfortable
with silence all the time as medical science has proved that: being
silent for your mind and body can improve your memory, can
relieve stress, fights insomnia [5].
Students lack the discipline to sit in the class during lecture:
It has become inevitable for students to text, Snap chat, or scroll
through Facebook during class. Due to this our intellect and
opportunities to become educated are diminishing. Studying for
tests, sitting through a discussion, or listening to a professor’s
lecture coincide with multitasking. Research shows that
multitasking (on a laptop) causes divided attention and
fragmented information processing, both of which can result in
lower performance level [6].
1.2 Results
The following results can be estimated:
 We all are responsible, whether we use technologies for the
betterment of society or to destroy the peace of the world.
 Technology has connected us through internet and has made
life easy that results in time saving because “Time flies like
an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”.
 Excess use of digital technologies to avoid silence by our
generation can lead them to different kinds of bad habits.
 Use of artificial intelligence for irrelevant purposes can be a
cause to destroy peace of society.
 The leaders of our nation, students, are unable to sit in the
class during one hour lecture as they use their cell phones
which are part of our society.
1.3 Conclusion
We are responsible for all the good and bad, no matter what is
available. Technology is just a tool that makes us simultaneously
more productive and destructive. Bombs make killing easier as
well as demolition. The Internet makes things more efficient, but
also inspires us to destroy ourselves. Bombs don’t kill. Behind
every use of technology is a person, is behind every murder, there
is also a person.
Our real problem of using technologies should be to relax
humanities desires not to destroy the peace of humanities.
To sum up, the use of technology should be made only for making
mankind (Bani Adam) [7] more and more progressive to know the
secrets of TRUTH [8].
The whole motive of the research paper can be best
explained from the golden lines of the thinker of my beloved
country, Pakistan, in the following way:
Roma a‫׿‬m R䘏映a ‫׿‬䘏映 R 蹀䘏ma 簠‫׿‬m
‫׿‬m ̡ ma R Rϴ‫̡׿‬簠m 纠‫׿‬m Ra ‫׿‬o 蹀‫ ׿‬R纠m
2. REFERENCES
1. https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-destroying-
society.
2. Surah Al-Maidah verse no 32, Tarjumat-ul-Kanzul Iman By
Aala Hadrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barevli (R.A)
3. https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-technology-destroying-
society.
4. Quotes and thoughts
5. https://www.medicaldaily.com/5-health-benefits-being-
silent-your-mind-and-body-396934
6. https://spoonuniversity.com/healthier/5-reasons-why-
technology-is-ruining-our-society.
7. According to Islamic beliefs, we all are the descendants of
Hadrat Adam(A.S) who was created from mud, by ALL-
CREATOR, Almighty Allah.
8. The word TRUTH in the philosophy of Islam stands for
Almighty Allah only because every thing in the world is false
(not real) , so false has to demolish at all, and more
appropriately this world is nothing but a deception.
The word TRUTH can be explained from the poetry of the
greatest poet of the world, the pride of Sindhi nation, my
Spiritual Murshid, Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (R.A) in
the following way:
‫׿‬m R ‫׿‬ 簠映a ̡
蹀簠mR 映Rm 簠映a ̡
[Sindhi poetry, extracted from “Shah Jo Risalo” ]
Translation: Where ever he (Bhitai) sees, he sees the clear
manifestation of TRUTH (his Beloved).Because he observes
the Secrets of The TRUTH in ever thing.