Your Answer ▼ With highly developed technologies, people claim that the quality
of 21st life is better than ever before. However, I do not agree
with this, thinking there have always been drawbacks with human developments.
There are reasonable evidences to prove that we are living
in the better conditions compared to the past. Having improved transportation
systems such as car, train and air plane, human society is highly beneficial in
distance travels. This development has made it more convenience and cheap for
people to go anywhere to everywhere. The invention of telephone has greatly
changed the way of our life. We are able to call regardless of distance and
time, which allows us to save a lot of time to communicate with others. What is
more, this society is rich in knowledge as we are exposed to a huge amount of
information through the Internet.
Despite all the reasons above, I personally believe that we
cannot say living quality in 21st is better than living in the past.
We should also be aware of what disasters the better quality of life has brought.
With great developments in weapons such as missile and nuclear, a number of
people are living in a terrible fear. While wide use of transportation has caused
many benefits to our community, numerous people have been killed by car and air
plane accidents. Excessive deforestation has destroyed the residences of
minority groups. Thus, it is better quality of life that applies to some people
but not a whole society.
To sum up, even though for some groups could sense that living in 21st has more advantages than last centuries, the life quality has not been improved in general. |