Technology has both positive and negative impacts on social interaction that will become more pronounced in the next 10 years. Positively, technology allows for more efficient communication, reunification with contacts, and tracking of life events. However, overuse of technology can lead to addiction, procrastination, and inhibiting social interaction in public. Overall, while technology presents some challenges to human relations, it majorly facilitates communication, and its drawbacks are temporary issues that will be addressed over time.

2. Question J
0 How do you imagine social interaction within 10
years, taking into consideration the impact of
technology on human relations?
I strongly believe that technology has a definite 2sided
impact on human relations:
There are positive and negative sides to correlation
of technology and human relations, and I would like to
review them in more detail.
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3. PROS
0 Modern technology and communication sources
provide users ability to:
0 Do business more efficiently;
0 Trade goods and services remotely;
0 Reach each other almost anytime, anywhere;
0 Easily reunite with long lost acquaintances;
0 Keep track of birthdays and other important dates;
0 Follow events, achievements, and milestones of others.
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4. EXTRA PROS
0 Some unobvious advantages are:
0 Technology subliminally facilitates face-to-face
communication. People communicate more in real life,
as services as check-ins (at Facebook or Foursquare) or
events (Facebook) allow them to spontaneously gather
within minutes.
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5. CONS
0 The drawbacks of modern communication technology
are as follows:
0 Some individuals become overly addicted to social
networking;
0 People tend to ‘procrastinate’ on the Internet instead of
working/studying;
0 Some cannot stop using their electronic devices even
when out in the public, which inhibits socialising.
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6. EXTRA CONS
0 The less obvious negative sides are:
0 ‘Stalking’;
0 Endangered privacy;
0 Electronic scams;
0 People rely on permanent access to information and feel
helpless otherwise.
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7. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
0 I personally believe that in the future, the following
might occur:
0 Most people will become more used to technology, thus
less obsessed with it;
0 The cost of technology (both devices and data traffic)
will drop;
0 New input methods should appear;
0 E-commerce and digital markets shall blossom.
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8. OVERALL IMPRESSION
0 Technological development sometimes influences
human relations in negative ways.
0 Even so, technology majorly facilitates
communication.
0 Moreover, the drawbacks are to be rectified
eventually.
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9. Thank You
For Your Attention!
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