People want better. If a human sees something better than what they have now, their first respond is “I want it”. Applying it to the real world, to achieve the “better” one thing that is necessary is technology. Undergoing process to advance technology has helped the human civilization enormously. For example, invention of a vaccine to prevent the deadliest disease smallpox. Fortunately or unfortunately, development of technology has helped human to fulfill human needs and it is still improving gradually. Despite this good news, too advanced technology sometimes brings negative impact, tangling relationships and shattering communities. Confirmed by many literature works such has Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick technologies is not at all times…show more content… Jamestown was considered a failure because they were caught in a “starving time” which brought death to 440 settlers (Philbrick 5). Although many factors caused these deaths such as disease and Indian threats, starvation played a key role in the situation. Jamestown’s lack of skills to save or farm food played a big role of starvation. In other words, technology wasn’t advanced enough to save the hungry population. With that in mind, the Pilgrims also suffered due to lack of food. Pilgrims could not catch fish with tools they had instead, they consumed “barnacles and seaweed” (Philbrick 56). As the result, many Pilgrims were food poisoned. Population was hardly sustained and the Pilgrims still had no advanced technology to save them. Moving on, lack of food was not only the result of poor technology. Lack of protection was a main problem to the Pilgrims. North America was not the land for Pilgrims. Both Natives and Pilgrims had to protect themselves from each other. Unfortunately both side had barely any protection. Pilgrims were dressed in simple guards including “metal breastplate” and armed with “musket” and "sword" (Philbrick
