People are using a lot of online language translation apps

2019-09-01: Task 2 People are using a lot of online language translation apps. Are the advantages more than disadvantages of such services. I can say that the advantages are short term and the disadvantages is long term. It is very convenient to use a translation app to translate an unknown language to you to another language you know. For example, you travelled to China for vacation and went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. The challenge is they do not have any english menu. So you use a translation app by taking a picture of the menu and it automatically translates the words into english. You successfully ordered food without learning Chinese. In the future, people won't get interested or motivated to learn new languages as translating languages using applications becomes more and more convenient and ubiquitous. The primary idea why a new language is learned is to have efficient communication for trade. But even this fundamental reason can be offset by this new technology. The problem of this technology is there will be lesser incentive to learn a new language for the reason being to learn a new culture. The first thing to do if you want to learn the culture is to learn the language. If you are now familiar with the language, other things will be easily accessible. It will be hard to integrate with a culture if you do not know the language. These kinds of technology will help us do things easier and easier. In general that is the role of technology. But in the long term it will have negative effects on society as a whole.