Answer:
Some Positive effects:
Increased overall efficiency
More entertainment (games, movies, etc…)
Easier time learning things (information, web, search)
Better quality of life, longer lives due to modern medicine and technology, etc…
Increased safety. Better police response times, GPS, surveillance/cameras, etc…
Easier communication. Phones, internet, IM, email.
Ability to do away with paper in large part, saving the forests from being cut down.
Decreased emissions and a greener environment keeping the Earth, and people, healthier.
Some Negative effects:
Decreasing use of our own memory (less able to remember phone numbers for example)
Decreased use of simple math calculations by hand (less able to do quick simple calculations without a phone/calculator app).
More reliance on GPS to navigate. Less direction sense. I already notice this among my own kids versus myself when I was their age.
Laziness. Gaining weight due to inactivity.
Kids, and adults, addicted to screens, social media, games, tv’s….
Decreased attention spans due to the massive amount of information today.
