Technology creates winners and losers

Postman (1998) mentioned“I say only that since technology favors some people and harms others, these are questions that must always be asked.”In this post, I would like to share my experience towards “technology creates winners and losers”. By the way, I just came across my coursemate, Stephanie blog who shares the same experience as I do regarding the controversy between “typing/reading with pen and paper” and “typing/reading with tech”. I totally understand how she feels as I’m also in her shoe.
My example:
During my elementary and high school time, I have always been receiving compliments from teachers and friends saying that I have very neat handwriting. My friends like to use my notes to study as  I’ve been always making good use of mind-mapping and info-graphics. Hence, I have a lot of colour pencils, highlights and whatever stationary that you can name.  Frankly, I am proud of my own handwriting. BUT, it’s not like that now . With the advent of computer and keyboard, the things that I was proud of has totally being replaced by technologies. Nowadays, we can create mind-mapping using softwares such as easel.ly and gliffy with ease. The advantages of using tech is that you can SAVE TIME, SAVE SPACE while SHARING with one another across the Internet.

From the above picture, we can also see that “Technology change is also a trade-off” (Postman, 1998). Using the example shown above, the advantage that technology offers is that we can save a lot of time and effort in producing work, while the corresponding disadvantage is that it losses it’s sentimental value of it.
If you came across reading “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change” by Neil Postman, do share what do you think about it.
References:
Postman,N. (1998). Five things we need to know about technological change. Retrieved from
http://usqstudydesk.usq.edu.au/m2/pluginfile.php/202983/mod_resource/co