Technological advances make life better for everyone, true or false?

The technological advances surprise us increasingly in different areas like education, security and health. Without a doubt that new tools help and support to make better different services. But how real is the phrase “make life better for everyone”?

In this essay, I will defend that the idea of that phrase is completely wrong and I am going to base my arguments in one principal topic: unequal access to basic services.

In the middle of the 21^st century is tempting think that the most of population have guaranteed access to basic services, especially in a globalized world. But in countries like Chile and others where the inequality is so profound that is not guaranteed for low income people. For example, in Chile the public health is below than private health and even though technological advances are introduced in public sector, the health care is worse because the professionals are less and also, the technological tools never will be the same of the private health.

In actual times in pandemic the situation is more critical because the people who don’t have the essential tools to “work from home” or “online classes” like a computer, Wi-Fi or even a phone is badly affected, especially monetarily.

As a summary, the inequality is a factor to considering when we talk about technological advances because that are not guaranteed for all population. The continuous advances are increasing the digital divide and make life worse for a sector of population. Unfortunately, the technological access has never been the same for everyone.