Can technology make a better world?

Nowadays technology -fortunately or unfortunately- is accessible to almost everyone in the world. Due to the impact of technolgy we can consider it extremely important so here's a tricky question: Can we use technology to make the world a better place?

First of all, I think it's vital to highlight some disadvantatges because many people only care about the benefits of the technology progress. Materialism, in my opinion, we care more than necessary about our belongings. You may agree about materialism or not, but we all know that many of us when a new phone model of our favourite company comes out, we buy it instantly whereas waiting until the price is lower. 

Another thing highly related to the first negative point is the dependency, from my point of view, we're obsessed with screens and so we don't pay attention to the real world. Owing to the dependency of technology, we are losing espiritualism and consequently our love towards nature.

As technology grows, human workers decrease. An uncountable number of workplaces have been reduced because machines automate processes and do the world of many people only with one computer, therefore companies think don't need employees as they get the job done, furthermore usually it's cheaper.

On the other hand there are some positive points about the increase of accessibility to technology such as the communication, cost efficiency, convenience in education, change in the health industry...etc.

In conclusion, as I said there are some negative and very important issues regarding the evolution of technology in our society. Nevertheless, there are advances that we can take to improve our lifes. So it would be incredible to use technology and minimize the harmful effects.