Recreational: It doesn't if you use it moderately and don't get addicted to it
Work: Soon people will use tech for everything, and become lazy.
"Technology.....the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it." (Max Frisch 1911- )
Of course technology affects health: The down side: much of the physical effort expended to simply get from one place or another is no longer utilized because we have cars, busses, trains, planes, boats and subs elevators. These modes of travel are necessary because the pace of life in the Western part of the world has now sped up so much. Also, for kids, the toys they use to get enjoyment are situated in an increasingly in a sedentary venue. and require next to no physical exertion.
The good side: being a swimmer I'll start with that sport first: heated pools allow for year-round outdoor training, Technical design to goggles, snorkels, swim suits have aided the best swimmers to shave increments of time off world records. Automated timing has removed the human element from timing a race and that helps a lot to level the playing field; Runners: obviously shoes: designed to maximize comfort yet with a minimum of energy dissipation of useful energy in the foot when it strikes the ground. Some sports are so profoundly proliferated simultaneously with the introduction of the technology needed to equip the athlete with equipment that will allow him to perform at his best. Some examples of these sports would be: racquet sports, all the sports involving a ball have an enormous dependency on technology. I sports where protective equipment in the form of a durable suit and a helmet such as football
There are too many examples to list. Suffice it to say that with the invention and development of plastic may be the one factor in ennobling athletes to perform at their very best, this being for some their entire purpose for seeing just how good they can get. This is one of the many thrills for competing in the first place.
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radiation actually.... lol like cellphone in ur pocket all the time can make u sterile its the same as having a laptop on ur lap makes u sterile having a phone at your ear all day can kill some brain cells..Go read the other questions, because this is the same as the other ones.