The world of today from a technological standpoint has been making advances almost daily and if current progress is any indication will continue to do so for a long time to come. Every day we as individuals are helped along in our every day affairs by technology. Most of us would be completely lost without our current level of technology.

             Since the beginning of recorded history, mankind has always searched for ways to make life easier and to lessen the burden of everyday tasks. Early technology amounted to the development of tools and implements and primitive machines that allowed early man to accomplish more in the least amount of time. Some of the early inventions are still used today with only minor modifications to make them more applicable in the modern world. Even with all of the past and present achievements, mankind is still pushing forward with new ideas and greater efforts to accomplish what twenty years ago would have seemed like only fantasy.

             Today we have become so technologically dependant that life would become unbearable to most if we had to do without any of our present conveniences or comforts all of which are based on technology. In almost everything we do technology is involved. Our food is prepared and packaged mostly by machines, the clothing that we wear is processed by machines, the building materials for our homes are manufactured by machines and our very health is monitored and regulated at times by machines. We travel from one point on the globe to another using machines and sophisticated technology to guide us to the proper place. It is almost inevitable.

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             that we are becoming dependent on our technology almost faster than we can invent it. This in itself some see as a drawback to technological advance. Others see this as an opportunity to profit from technology and as a reason to pursue more advances as rapidly as possible. Others use the technological wave as a means to try out new ideas, theories and inventions.