Our world “Earth” is considered as the most beautiful planet in the universe with abundance of resources and has some characteristics to afford lives due to availability of water to support growth of plants and lives of animals.
Today this world is changing in every second and every minute; the way we live has unwholesomely change; new ideas and inventions are massively increasing in every wink of an eye.
The way our forefathers lived is incomparable with the way we do live nowadays; they lived a knotty and difficult life due to the lack of access or introduction to technology.
There are so many indices of progress and development that change the narrative of the OLD and this NEW WORLD which we could vividly reckon.
Firstly, the means of communication; the mode of communication nowaday is one of the huge development we can proudly reckon. Due to the modern ways of communication, within seconds we can hear about triumphs and tragedies from other nations so far apart. Which we all heard in the past from our old folks the were no; it may takes weeks or even months before a message arrive to where it was sent.
Secondly, transportation; there is vast changes in the field of today’s transportation in the world. Days before, horses, camels, donkeys and other animals are use for transport or even by feet. Gradually, later on the wheel were invented to the invention of bicycles, motor cycles , trains, and now we have come to aeroplanes. Due to these fastest means for transportation, our businesses, foreign exchanges, deliveries and so have become cushier. We can now receive our mails within few hours or even minutes.
But unfortunately, despite the indices of progress and development we have, most of our people do live in misery and suffer hectically from starvation; this had began since ten thousands years ago when people started practicing farming, the farming provide more food for the people, thus making the population grow. For now we are about 6 billion in population and in few years coming we will be around 10 to 11 billions and the culture of farming is somehow abandoned. It is without doubt that we may suffer an unbearable hardship if the negligence of farming continues.
Additionally, global warming and animal extinction; are other major problems we are facing due to our poorness in caring and in promoting the mode of our industrialization.
Very sad to say; how poverty dominated every where, more than 70 percent of the world’s population own less than $10,000.This is due to the lack of global emphasis on foreign aid, conflicts and political factors that have kept poverty as a driving factor..
More over, our global politics are dominated by head strongmen who use the American economy, government and military to ensure global control of finances, nature, and People around the entire world. Now the rich’s get richer, the poor ones stay in poverty, the Republicans support expanding debts and the democrats are trying to figure out how they should act to win rather than just voting like they care all about us.
Nonetheless, technology is now at a point never seen before in history. The level of our technology is always improving from stone age to the exploration of the near infinite knowledge of space. Today technology have succeeded to the level that almost any thing needs technology; Our daily ways of living, health care, food production and preservation, transportation, communication and many others that cannot be listed here.
Howbeit, technology invented devices which are affecting our lives today. People around the world are influenced by technology devices and use it in their daily basis. It seems like they can’t let it go; because these inventions are so attached to many and have became addicted to it. Whilst technology has now brought more harm than useful to society. This can be solely understandable of we look up into the crisis it has caused among the nation. Also it helps massively in making young children or youth to become addicted in watching phonographic pictures or videos. Talk less of promoting hate speech in the social media handles.
And in other hand, technology has become part our live, due to the creation of apps and other inventions of internet, we learn many online lessons and preaches from our scholars despite being us at home.
As we look around in today’s world there are a lot of changes in our educational sector, business, health and numerous things not mentioned. Knowledge about sciences is always expanding, our nations have developed and continue to be developing as always discoveries and inventions are made.
Mubarak Said is a Nigerian poet, an essayist, and a short story writer. He hails from the great city of Gombe.
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