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Comment 10

Nowadays, artificial intelligence is creeping into every aspect of daily life. Technology is advancing very quickly and there are more and more complex and efficient robots and machines that can do many different jobs. A long time ago, all works were manual , but since the Industrial Revolution with the introduction of new machines the way we work began to change. Robots can be good because they make our work easier, but they also have disadvantages.


On the one hand, robots are very important in our lives today. They make our work easier and help us with many things. In addition, robots have made many things possible; for example, they help us to produce things in factories much faster than before and robots can also help us to communicate with people who are far away, some years ago this was unthinkable. Besides, until today the robots that exist are machines that can do a certain activity very well, but it is thought that in the future the robots will go much further, that means if someone was capable of creating a robot that could communicate with other people and have emotions of its own, how would that affect us? Would we still have normal friends or would we prefer to talk to a robot that if we want we can turn off? And what about having children or pets? People would start to adopt robots and take care of them or would we continue doing as we do today? We cannot know yet, so we must wait for that to happen.


On the other hand, although robots help us in many things it is also true that they have taken away many jobs. According to statistics, in 5 or 10 years many jobs that there are nowadays will not be in the long run and they are going to be replaced by machines. All those workers will have to change their jobs or they will be out of work. However, if you work moving machines or with robots you must be careful because robots can break down and can be dangerous. Last, but certainly not least, if we replace most jobs with robots we will start spending a lot of time alone and working alone can be bad for our health because we are social beings who need to communicate with other people.


To put it in a nutshell, robots help us and make our lives easier, but we sometimes have to be careful with them. In my opinion, robots are very good for us, but we shouldn’t make robots with emotions.

Comment 9

Nowadays most people both adults and children have a television at home. In addition, there are already many different programs on the TV so I am sure that some of them suit our interests. Television can be very good, but it also has some disadvantages.

On the one hand, TV helps us to learn what happened anywhere in the world; a few years ago, it was very difficult to know what happened far from your city or town but nowadays thanks to the news it is very easy. However, there are many programs with which you can learn many things such as documentaries or cooking programs. Besides, cartoons are a good way to keep younger children entertained because they are so funny for them.


On the other hand, Television is no longer merely the drug of the nation, it is the pacifier, babysitter, wallpaper and teacher for our children. Increasingly it intrudes on the very first months of their lives. In addition, according to the statistics in Australia young children spend more time watching television than any other activity. Another important TV problem is that if you spend a lot of time watching TV you may end up with problems like vision problems or headaches. And talking about young children, watching a little TV is fine but if they spend too many hours watching TV they won't probably develop their creativity properly because children should play with toys and other people.


All in all, television can be good for keeping us informed but we must be careful with it. In my opinion, we should watch TV as little as possible because it can create addiction; in my case, I only watch TV about half an hour a day.

Comment 8

Nowadays, we are all very familiarized with social networks. We have to look at Facebook, Twitter, whatsapp or Instagram every day and many people say that they can’t live without being informed about everything, that means, they can’t spend an entire day without revising social networks. To be informed of what is happening in the world is fine. Nevertheless, many times the news that reaches us through social networks can be false. So… What can we do?



On the one hand, social networks are really good because they allow us to communicate easily with people who are far away from us. Talking about WhatsApp, this is the most important messaging system in the world. WhatsApp is used in many countries. Nevertheless , WhatsApp is a private messaging system. Besides, the goal of Whatsapp is a private conversation between a few people but sometimes if someone writes some fake news it can be received by thousands of people, and there’s the problem.


On the other hand, creating fake news about someone famous is very dangerous because people may think it is true. In addition, the blame for the transmission of this fake news is not only with the person who invented it, but also with the messenger service that helps to transmit it, in this case, WhatsApp. However , to solve this, WhatsApp has taken a number of measures such as not being able to send the same message to more than 5 people at once. Besides , we all know that nowadays there are many fake news circulating on the network.


All in all, we must be careful with the news that we see because that may not be true. In my opinion, WhatsApp is very good but sometimes we must think about the news and links that people send us through this social network.