Is having the latest technology a want or a need?
How often do you get a new cel phone or mp3 player? Did you really need a new model? Do you consider the environmental impact of these purchases? If you are addicted, how can you break your addiction?
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Technology and Wants/Needs
I think that while some technology is needed to work/live in modern day society, a lot of it is needless and harms the environment. Eventually, old technology becomes incompatible with modern technology, or simply cannot perform the tasks required of it. However, a new model of phone or computer hardly ever has features so necessary that the previous, or even models before that become obsolete. Obviously, these products require raw materials to make and repeated charging, harming the environment. If someone is addicted to the tech, doing activities that don't require tech or spending time with people in an outside environment can help.





