Technological development in earlier times brought more changes to the life of ordinary people than recent technological developments have brought. Do you agree or disagree?

Technology has always been doing a wonderful job of bringing prominent changes the life of people. Human beings have been constantly working newer innovation facilitate their life on earth. It is often argued that the changes that technology brought in our ancestor’s lives were better compared to that changes that it has brought in today life. In my opinion it is impossible to compare any two eras of human life in this manner.

Each technological development alters life in unimaginable ways. What the invention of the train track did for locomotion in the times gone by the Boeing 707 has done for our times. If telephone changed communication in the time of graham bell, the mobile has some as much the same in today’s era. If anesthesia killed pain, the vaccine for polio has saved millions from otherwise inevitable handicaps.

In talking about such things usually what happens is that the technology we already have been using for a long time is taken for granted and something historic exceptionally modern is considered better than what exists in the present. However true that the technology which is being used in the present was considered more advanced in the past.

There is always scope for improvement in a given technology and place for new inventions and discoveries. But no advancement in the present is better or worse than what happened in the past or comes about in the future. Therefore I do not agree with the proportion given here.