Technophobia

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Term Paper Title	Technophobia
# of Words	672
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.69

Technophobia

[Category]:

Technology

[Paper Title]:

Technophobia. An Impediment to Personal Development

[Text]:

Technophobia

An Impediment to Personal Development

With the onslaught of new technology emerging since the late Nineteen
Seventies, and its subsequent divergence throughout the Eighties and Nineties,
there has been little time to adjust to the impact of newer technologies nor the
sky-rocketing popularity in both personal and professional lives. Most have
adapted, many sing it's praises, however, for those that have not embraced, nor
welcomed for that matter, such things as the personal computer, the Internet,
and a host of telecommunication innovation, a fear based resistance coined
Technophobia, is quickly becoming a serious impediment to personal development.

Hardly a new concept, fear based resistance to technology is well documented
in history during times of innovation. "Get A Horse!" was commonly
screamed at those who drove the first automobiles and riots broke out often
during the industrial revolution. The Wall Street Journal claimed electric
lighting would be forgotten in less than a week and fifty years ago, the concept
of space travel was laughable. As common then as it is now, resistance to change
is almost tradition.

Technophobia today presents with a slight variation on the theme. Innovation
is replaced by inundation. The problem is not changing, it's adapting fast
enough to keep pace with the changes. It is not influencing just one aspect of
our lives, it is affecting every aspect of our lives. To quote Michelle M. Weil,
a clinical psychologist from Orange, California who has spent more than fifteen
years studying technology and its effect on people, (Co-author of the book,
Techno-Stress: Coping with technology @work@home@play. Due out this October),
"Technophobia is a direct result of people not having the choice to opt out
of using new technology. All of a sudden you have to weigh your own fruit at the
supermarket. You buy gasoline by paying at the pump

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with electronic fund transfers; there's voice mail - it's an indication of
how little choice we have now. Technology isn't going away. We're very much in a
technological era 1".

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