Is Technology Taking Over?

     Tonight for dinner, my family and I had homemade pizza. By homemade I really mean homemade...down to the Fresh Pizza Dough. I realized as we were preparing the pizza just how much technology we were really using. My mom had her iPad set up with the recipe on it from Food Network. I realized as we were cooking that without that technology, our meal would be nonexistent. This really opened my eyes to how much we rely on technology today. Without the corporations, there would be no technology. Nor would we have had sauce for our pizza, cheese, or pepperoni...had it not been for the corporation that made it. The corporation also provided all of the technology we used in the pizza making process. This observation leads me to wonder, is technology helping us or hurting us? Sure it makes our lives a little bit easier, but is it actually helping us? I've heard people say that eventually we won't even be able to think for ourselves because technology will overtake us. I disagree with the idea that it hurts us or that it will overtake us. There is nothing wrong with our lives being made easier. Just because the corporations fingerprints are all over every bit of technology doesn't mean it is a bad thing. Of course it isn't something that we really even notice on a day to day basis. We don't think about the fact that a to-go drink from Starbucks makes us a walking advertisement. But that still does absolutely no harm to our daily lives.