Homework

Choose one recent technological advance and are we better off because of this technology? Why and why not?

The Internet. 

I think we would not be better off because since people use the internet for investigations, homework, research, social networking and even for entertainment. Life has become a lot simpler. For example you can now upload your homework to a blog (like this one) and it becomes faster and you're saving a lot of paper. You can also job hunt online and it becomes so much faster, easier and cheaper. You can also do just "google" something and in less than a minute you have found the answer to what you were looking for, back in the day if you wanted to research something you had to go to the library, find the right books and work for hours just to find the information you were looking for. You can keep in touch with relatives or friends who live in different cities or countries through Facebook, Skype, etc.