<p>"Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?"</p>
<p>When people are asked what they value, the most poignant responses will include education, ethics, and othe[r] values that benefit a person intellectually. While the inital notion of many people is that technology makes lives easier, people do not realize they are in fact hurt by technology[,] in that intrinsic values, such as good ethics, education, or intellectuality, are broken. This can be observed in the modern fad of texting, the invention of the graphing calculator, and modern gossip magazines.</p>
<p>Texting is the most widely used technology of the modern age. While many people believe that it makes communication easier, people do not realize that their educational value in communication is lost. As noted by Ed Dante of The Chronicle, many students are so disconnected with the English language that they depend on others to communicate for them. Texting abbreviations and other phrases make students incapable of proper grammar. Ed Dante states he has wrote graduate-level papers for students unable to communicate[,] which he largely blames on our texting culture. This loss of educational value in communication obviously turns our lives for the worse.</p>
<p>The recent invention of the graphing calculator proves that many students lack basic arithmetic abilities. In 2007, Robert Farhorn compared the discrepencies [misspelled] of national mathematics exams with and without calculators. The results indicate that students are incapable of doing very fundamental-level math. This decrease in educational value evinces that even though our lives are made easier from calculators, it is not necessarily for the better.</p>
<p>Lastly, modern gossip magazines violate the first notion of humans to have good moral ethics. Many magazines readers claim these make time pass or are for entertainment. However, the gossip and other forms of corruption in these magazines clearly demonstrates a violation of human inclination to good moral ethics.</p>
<p>As thoroughly demonstrated, the examples of modern texting, the recent spread of the use of the calculator, and the modern gossip magazine, all show that, indeed, changes do not necessarily make our lives for the better, because they violate what humans value.</p>
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