Technology Ideals Today

Day by day our technology continues to improve and expand. The society around us expands and becomes "easier". As technology expanded from the computer which was the size of a building, to a computer that fits in your pocket, our society has become accustomed to the way we live our daily lives. Around forty tears ago the first cell phone was invented, now just this week the iPhone 6 was released. The transformation from a cell phone that was almost to big to hold, all the way to a cell phone that is touch screen and is capable of many more things than just phone calls is outrageous. Its amazing in our society it is completely normal to spend hundreds of dollars on an electronic device, and not to use the money where it could be used for non material uses. It poses the question, is all of this worth it? The money we spend to further our material use and social standing, is radical in difference to other societies, where money is given to other objects and ideals.