Modern technology has managed to improve satisfaction of our lives by providing us with means to entertain ourselves and a wider choice of leisure than before. In the past, we seldom rely on modern technology as it is considered to be something new to us, resulting in low quality of lives and satisfaction level as seen from minimal forms of entertainment and leisure. Nowadays, many have realised the advantages and benefits of modern technology. Entertainment helps improve our lives by providing simple pleasure and relieving of stress. Leisure helps us improve our lives by contributing ease of access in terms of communication or enabling us to fulfill our desires to shop or travel at the comfort of our own home. Simple forms of entertainment via modern technology involving playing virtual games with gaming consoles such as Playstation 4 and Xbox 360 to playing from technologically advanced smartphones such as iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 beyond the comfort of our homes. This shows how we are enjoying a greater quality of life as compared to before.

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Whether modern technology improves the quality of people's lives depends on the individual. A person's mindset would decide if it is to be used for it's positive and negative. If a person knows how to exercise self-control, he would definitely set personal limits for himself. He would not abuse the convenience of modern technology and can exercise Internet responsibility. He would not be addicted to the Internet for example online gaming. If a person uses public transport and not drive their personal vehicles, he would not emit as much pollutants and would lessen the environmental damage. With social media platforms being made so user friendly as accessible, we must know how to control our sharing of opinions so as to offend other people. If a person does not exercise self-control, he may exercise bad habits like addiction the Internet, for example online gambling. Not only would this affect the individual, it would also affect his family and future financial capability. We would also cause more environmental damage as we use more goods and increase it's demand. This would not only affect us but for future generations in the long run. Therefore, Modern technology may improve the quality of people's lives, but it ultimately depends on the individual and not the capability of modern technology.

Many people argue that modern technology always improves the quality of people's life in the case of convenience. In the past, any work or task that had to be completed, had to be done through hard work and labour. Moving from one place to another required individuals to rely on their two legs to either walk or pedal on bicycles to reach their destination. It even took Nellie Bly 80 days to travel around the world. If anyone needed to conduct any research, the one and only method was to visit the library, read a huge pile of thick books to gather that specific piece of information they needed. In this 21st Century, however, we can everything we desire with the least effort needed, which also leads to a huge amount of time saved everyday. Now, we can travel to places around the world which was never possible before with the help of Aeroplanes, that too in a couple of hours. Instead of looking in the air, even on the grounds, we now have vehicles to facilitate transport of anything, from heavy and large boxes to us, humans. In fact, we have eco-friendly cars as well that makes the environment around us and the air more cleaner. We can now obtain specific information you desire online through the Internet with just a click of a button instead of reading through bulky books. These advancements have contributed significantly to the happiness of people around the world. With such conveniences, people around the world can save a huge amount of time, with little efforts needed. Thus, modern technology has always led to people having a greater satisfaction in life and in turn always improving the quality of people's lives.

Many people argue that the quality of people's life are improved with a wider variety of entertainment and leisure activities due to advancements in technology. We live in a world where entertainment and leisure facilities are always available for our usage. In this era, where modern technology dominates the world, we can now find leisure and entertainment activities online easily. These activities are able to fulfill our desires anytime and anywhere, with just a click of a button. One such example is that we are able to learn how to play any musical instrument just by using applications that can be downloaded to our smartphones, without having to play them physically. Video games online allow us to connect with friends or people around the world, without having to meet them personally, example DOTA, where gamers are able to connect with each other virtually. We are also able to watch international videos online, not only those that are made in Singapore, but others that are produced from other countries such as American Idol. With the use of modern technology, which provides us with easy access to leisure and entertainment, the quality of people's life are always improved as it increases the satisfaction people have in life.

Modern technology has constantly enhanced our communication, thereby improving different aspects of our lives such as work, social and personal life. We are now able to connect with people from different parts of the world. For example, with the creation of communication platforms such as Skype and Instant Messenger, it is now much more convenient to contact friends and relatives from across the globe, instead of the old school emails. At the same time, we can get instant replies to our messages instead of waiting for a week for an email. Hence, this saves us the time, money and trouble to make expensive overseas calls, and allows us to fill that free time on more important things. Through the various social media platforms we are also able to share important happenings in our lives by uploading statuses and photographs through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The advancements made to communication has enabled work and study to become effective. For example, video conferences can be made to affirm partnerships between companies from different countries, for studies, we can now have e-learning lessons at home as well as gain access to homework, lecture videos and notes uploaded by teachers to aid in our learning and revision. All these save time and money, brings us more convenience, frees up more time for us to do other things, hence, enabling us to maximize our time and improving the quality of our lives.

Conclusion:

In the short-run, modern technology may not always improve the quality of people's lives as the problems that arise cannot be solved with immediate effect. However, if we look at it in the long-run, modern technology is able to improve the quality of our lives all the time. Even when new problems and challenges are posed to us because of modern technology, these problems would be solved by further advances in modern technology. Thus, I conclude that modern technology always improves the quality of people's lives.

CONCLUSION:

In conclusion, new science and technology often face challenges. Nevertheless, modern technology has resolved a wide range of existing issues, including improved entertainment services and providing convenience for people. Therefore, whether or not modern technology always improves the quality of people's lives depends on how technology is utilized and policies introduced by the Government. Hence, I agree that modern technology always improves the quality of people's lives when problems related to new technology are effectively countered.

Many people believe that it is obviously true that modern technology has brought the lives of people closer together through social networking sites. With the emergence of social networking sites, people can stay connected and updated about one another's life without having to be physically by each other's side, and this would have never been possible without modern technology. Being able to stay connected through social platforms such as Skype and FaceTime, people would be less worried about their loved ones that are far away from them because of the immediacy of the information. Through sites such as FaceBook and Twitter, people worldwide can enlarge their circle of friends, and at the same time, learn about different races, religions and cultures throughout the world and this certainly serves as a form of enrichment to the quality of people's lives. With all these opportunities to learn from people around the world and stay connected worldwide, people's lives have most certainly been improved.

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Modern Technology that has provided us convenience in our daily lives. With the invention of transport tools such as cars and airplanes, this allowed us to travel to other places faster and utilizes our times more effectively. For example, it only takes about 13 hours to travel from Singapore to Amsterdam but in the past it will take months to travel by ships. Moreover, the modern technology even helps us to save the necessary to travel and send documents online. Nowadays, there is an increasing trend of people working at home instead of traveling to the office they are able to obtain the documents they want and send out their documents through platforms such as email. In some professional fields such as engineering and medical field, when there are pressing issues such as injuries and serious damage in machinery, the modern technology provides the convenience of capturing the situation by camera and notify the others right away. In addition, the development of mobile data allows us to obtain information online whenever and wherever we want so as to find the solutions. Hence, the modern technology has improve our lives by providing convenience in transport and communication so as to spend time more efficiently and spend more time on important events.

Many young adults and youths these days would agree that the amount of access we have to a great variety of entertainment is largely due to modern technology. This is as these days many would find a source of entertainment online, instead of in the real world as it is so vast. As such, with such advanced technology, people are able to gain access to the online world with greater ease to get a greater variety of entertainment, as compared to in real life. Through modern technology, such as the internet, people are easily able to easily get a greater variety of entertainment as they can access to international websites to get resources not available locally. One example is that through websites such as funshion and sidereel, people are able to watch shows produced from different countries, for free, that are only available in Singapore for a certain cost. Also, people are able to stay connected with and make friends with others to keep entertained through the internet. This can be done through online gaming such as DOTA and LOL. As such, due to the constant ease in gaining access to a greater and cheaper variety of entertainment, this shows that modern technology always improves the quality of people's lives.

The prevalence of modern technology in today's world makes our lives more convenient. It fact, it has played such a big role in our lives such that it is practically impossible to imagine life without technology. Modern technology has made transport more efficient and has given us greater access to information all around the world. Through the advancements in technology, we are now able to travel around in ways that were previously unavailable. Air travel has sped up the time required to move from one country to another. We are now able to tour the world as a form of leisure, thus improving our quality of life.

We are now also able to acquire knowledge on the internet on platforms such as Google and Wikipedia at our own time. Being able to obtain information with just a click has brought about convenience to our lives as it saves us large amounts of time. Furthermore, people all over the world can contribute to and edit the information on the online data bank, which makes the information online more accurate and reliable.

Therefore, modern technology has brought about convenience and improves the quality of people's lives.

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Initially, modern technology will undoubtedly have to face challenges from critics and activists.Over time with more practices and follow up practices would lead to corrections in the process resulting in the good being more suited to the demands and benefits to the society and the target consumers. This would thus result in the technology having great if not absolute improvements in the particular aspects of the quality of people's life.With these advancements in technology it has led to a more world and as such led to shortened span of time for daily routines to be carried out. As such in the long run modern technology will eventually only lead to improvements in the quality of people's lives.

Initially, modern technology will undoubtedly have to face challenges from critics and activists. However, in the long modern technology will eventually lead to improvements in the quality of people's lives.