Five thousand years ago with the invention of writing the human race took its first jump towards a technological civilization in today's world, Technology is constantly changing and advancing at the speed of light. Is impressive to think that only a few decades ago cell phones didn’t exist, people used to communicate by phone or by other ways like letters or messages. Now cell phones are considered almost outdated. Our days we have blackberries, i-phones, etc. This situation happens with many other technological objects that make our lives easier and faster. But not everyone have access to these technological advances because they are very expensive. This is a serious problem for students for example. Now almost all the information is in the web. All the useful websites, images, programs are on the Internet. It’s very unfair that not everyone can make use of them because they don’t have a computer or because they don’t have an Internet connection.
I’m studying in the "Universidad de Chile", one of the few public universities in Santiago. Is public because it’s administrating by the state and not by private companies as the private universities. Is expected that the budget for technology be reduced. This is my situation like a student of the medicine college. Every day I have to deal with this problem.
As I said on a previous blog, we have a real problem with the computers, especially with those who are in the library. They just don’t work appropriately. We have to spend a lot of time searching a computer that works decently and also the ones who are available. Find those two things is very difficult. My career and all the careers of my college demand a lot of time for study. Every day thousands of students have to prepare different works for there classes. We have put all our effort in those works to comply with the requirements of the university. We can’t spend time on computers that don’t work properly.
But as future health professionals we will need to use along our carrier and profession a lot and varied technological objects. It’s probably that in our first days of practice we have to work in establishments with fewer resources that the ones we have in the university nowadays. We will have to use more "primitive" instruments, and we must be able to adapt ourselves to those technological changes.
It’s true that technology is growing quickly. But now the question is: All the people in the country are available to participate of the technology advances? I can certainly say that the answer is NO. Technology help us to have an easier and faster life. It also helps to optimize our time. It´s a very important and necessary thing in this stress world so, what is the reason because so many people is not participating of this technology progress? Technology is a source of opportunities. If we use it properly many doors could be opened for our personal progress.