Technological development in earlier times brought more changes to the life of ordinary people than recent technological developments have brought. Do you agree or disagree?

Technology has always been doing a wonderful job of bringing prominent changes in the life of people. Human beings have been constantly working on newer innovations to facilitate their life on earth. It is often argued that the changes that technology brought in our ancestors’ lives were better compared to the changes that it has brought in today's life. In my opinion it is impossible to compare any two eras of human life in this manner.

Each technological development alters life in unimaginable ways. What the invention of the train track did for locomotion in the times gone by, the Boeing 707 has done for our times. If telephone changed communication in the time of Graham Bell, the mobile has done as much the same in today’s era. lf anaesthesia killed pain, the vaccine for polio has saved millions from otherwise inevitable handicaps.

In talking about such things usually what happens is that the technology we already have been using for a long time is taken for granted and something historic or exceptionally modem is considered better than what exists in the present. However, it is also true that the technology which is being used in the present was considered more advanced in the past. 

There is always scope for improvement in a given technology and place for new inventions and discoveries. But no advancement in the present is better or worse than what happened in the past or comes about in the future. Therefore l does not agree with the
proposition given here.

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