WEIGHING SCALE APPROACH: TECHNOLOGY'S UPSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM AND LIMITATION SIDES

Humans invented technology to create a huge impact and innovation to the human society in this world. According to the book "Questioning Technology" written by Andrew Feenberg, "Technology is the medium of daily life in modern societies. Every major technical change reverberates at many levels, economic, political, religious, cultural." In result of these impacts, technology generates positive and negative sides of its existence.

Communication technology makes people in the different parts of the world connected through the use of internet. Social media platforms made it possible. Many negative impacts have arisen in the social media due to the wrong use. One of the negative impacts is the deteriorating mental health. On 2014, Leodoro J. Labrague conducted the research "Facebook use and adolescents' emotional states of depression, anxiety, and stress" it was observed that the number of time spent on Facebooking is associated with increased depression and anxiety scores. This result is in keeping with a more recent study conducted by Pantic and Colleague among high school students. The authors noted increases in depression score as the time spent on social networks increased and vice versa. This may be due to the fact that investing so much time on Facebook, just like with other negative updates from Facebook friends that may trigger the developments of these emotional states. Furthermore, it may also limits the time one has to socialize."

Online gaming is also one of the common feature of the internet. However, online gaming addiction is currently becoming serious health problem in adolescents. On the online news article of Philnews.ph, The Filipino Mobile Legends player Michael Tumagan died after battling stage four colon cancer he acquired because of his addiction to the online game. Previously, Michael Tumagan, the young man who acquired cancer because of his addiction to the popular online game "Mobile Legends: Bang Bang", was one of the most discussed topics online. The young man frequently skipped meals and deprived himself of sleep just to play Mobile Legends. This news report proves that online gaming can lead to death of humans.

Genetically modified organisms one of the innovation through the help of technology. However, genetically modified organisms can lead to long-term problems if it would not use in moderation. Especially in the food industry. On May 1, 2014, World Health Organization answered the frequently asked questions about the risk of consuming of GMO. In terms of safety assessment of GMO, world health organization responded "The safety assessment of GM foods generally focuses on: (a) direct health effects (toxicity),(b) potential to provoke allergic reaction (allergenicity); (c) specific components thought to have nutritional or toxic properties; (d) the stability of the inserted gene; (e) nutritional effects associated with genetic modification; and (f) any unintended effects which could result from the gene insertion."