Don't get wet!

There are some objects that you can easily find in every 21^st Century house: a TV, refrigerator, blender, computer, laptop, etc; these items make our life easier and that’s technology for me; invents that were created to help us and to save time to enjoy doing something else, and don’t waste it doing the housework.

One of the tasks you surely have to do when you live by your own (that I particularly hate) is wash your clothes; even when you try to be careful, they will get dirty anyway. The bright side is that nowadays we don't need to go to the nearer river and spend the whole afternoon squeezing your shirts and pants because we have the washing machines! Only by pressing some buttons your grimy clothe will be clean again in just a couple of minutes, that’s the magic of this great invent that revolutionized all the homes in the world. By 1950 having one of these machines was a signal of status; fortunately, having one at home is not a big deal in 2012. Could you imagine yourself washing your clothe in the bathtub everyday… that’s scary and exhausting!

These electric machines were created in order to help the american housewives; luckily they became famous and at the present time, everybody uses them (not only women, of course) and you can also buy them in different models and prizes, which are not really high, for that reason you can find a washing machine in most of the Chilean homes.

All the technological devices were created to serve us, not to replace us, that is why even when they help us with some undesired tasks, we have to do something in return; in this case, hanging up the clothes (such annoying thing!). Is there any duty you hate doing? Can you rely on technologies to help you with this task?

*** Washing machines are so useful that you can even create a piece of music with them!

Let there be light

If we start thinking about the most important technologies that the world had seen through the existence of the human kind, the one that is going to be presented in this text is considered a milestone in our history.

The human being has always tried to improve his life, and he has always wanted to make his existence more comfortable. The first question that comes to my mind is: Can you imagine reading or studying at night with just a little flame in the middle of your bedroom? The answer to this question at first glance would be, yes, maybe because it has something cliché.. but not for all the nights of the rest of your lives.

Since Thomas Edison had the awesome idea to invent this particular device, the world started to witness how the light was artificially created. Our lives were changed when the light bulb started to illuminate the most remote places in the world, distant corners that had never been illuminated before, now enjoy this eternal sparkle. 

His invention made our lives hospitable to a wide range of human activities. The benefits that this change produced were innumerable. First, it gave the opportunity to lot of countries (Nordic countries that just receive 6 month of sunlight) to perceive light in the same way we, people from the west, did. Second, with this invention lots of other inventions started to see the light; and of course, it brought lots of bad things too,  that now societies are more aware of it, for example, climate change, light pollution, etc.

Can you imagine how the world would be now, if Thomas Edison had invented another source of the artificial light?