Dark Daughter By Nicole Blackman

Technology diminishes our empathy. In the last paragraph of, “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price,” the author says, “We did not go out to dinner, we just sat there on our devices.” Technology demands your time. Almost always the time that is given up is family time.

Communication is a huge part of the human lifestyle. It is used on a daily basis and comes in numerous forms, making communication versatile and effective for all to use. For example, over time, the ways and uses of communication have evolved. It is difficult to imagine of the changes that have occurred and how we have adapted, but it is the reality. Kailun Zhang (2015) from the Queen’s University Journal, states, “There’s been a lot of advancement in how we stay connected. It’s strange to think that there was once a time without even telephones — when the only way to talk to old friends was with pen and paper. Yet, it was once a reality.” There will always be never ending heated debates even today concerning the advancement of communication. The past era of communication is definitely superior to the communication of the modern era for numerous different reasons. Technology, gender roles, and language aspects of communication are some of the many that have changed over the eras. First, technology has been one of the great changes in the topic of education.

First of all, technology hinders the way people talk with each other. Technology gets in the way of person to person interaction.

To summarize the autobiography, “The Dark Child”, Camara laye, is a person who struggled between two cultures throughout his life and faces Western belief such as education, language, and many challenges. In The Dark Child, Camara Laye’s youth and development of his cultural and personal values as a young man is well explained. He is part of the Malinke tribe in the village of Koroussa. In the beginning, he learns about many of the tradition and customs of his people from his parents. While learning about his people, he attends a Koran school and then a French school in another part of town. Later in the book, he learns about Kondon Diara a ceremony that is a ritual used to overcome a boy’s fear before the initiation of circumcision. He went through the ritual and circumcision then joined the manhood. After graduating from his school, Laye leaves his parents to attend a technical college in Guinea’s capital city of Conakry. Like any mother, Laye’s mother warns him to take care of himself and sends him off on a train to live with his uncles in Conakry where he becomes across many cultural changes.

Communication is the key element in human society. People need to talk to each other if they need help because they are not sure about anything, purchase goods at a store, or simply get home after a long day. Since the enormous improvement on technology, people are not that connected to other

An article from humankinetics.com discusses more in-depth about people false perception of the effect of technology on relationships and communication. “….one would think that these tools would be used to gain an understanding of other cultures, meet people all over the world, maintain and strengthen familial relationships, communicate effectively with others, and help people to become more socially adept.

Technology strongly impacts the way people communicate. According to Turkle, people don’t communicate face to face often. Most people prefer to use technology to communicate with the world. However, the excessive

First of all, communication has changed in the past 20 years because of the invention of the cell phone. People can now call anywhere in just a few minutes. Before cell phones, people used landlines to talk to each other. For that, they had to be at home. Furthermore, texting has become a norm in society today. In the past, people had to send letters and wait weeks for a reply, but life has become so easy with texting. Like texting, social media apps like Facebook and Twitter make it easy to share people's lives with others. Previously, people had to meet up and tell each other about what they did. In the last few decades, cell phones have been a major part of the change in communication.

Technology has grown into such a huge industry, so much that people in our society tend to be glued to their phones and cannot be away from them. Before technology, common communication included face to face interactions. Today, there are less of these interactions because technology has allowed us to handle the majority of interactions on our devices. Ultimately, technology has altered the old common lifestyle for the millennial generation because it reinvented means of communication, creating positives and negatives for our society today.

There is much debate about how modern technology has affected the way we communicate and if it has improved or been detrimental to the art of communication. In the 21st century, the human race has more ways to communicate than ever before. This includes the use of the internet, the mobile phone, television and radio, as well as written and spoken communication. With all these methods, why do some argue that the art of communication has been lost? This essay will discuss how the internet has affected this art but it has not been lost but simply modified.

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.

It is amazing how everyone’s life is changing by through us of technology. “Technology by definition means, the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science”(Technology). Today people use different kinds of technology like: cellphones, iPods, laptops, mp3s, and all of the devices create a convenient and comfort for every individual. As technology is updating every day, and every second it is affecting people’s lives and changing the pace of everything that relates to humans’ routines. One of the most important things that technology changes is the way everyone communicates. Technologies create more powerful and effective ways of communication. People are getting used to a new way to be alone together. Conversation in number and quality decrease as technology replaces in human interaction. In this article author gives insight into how technology distracts people without considering what price they are paying and persuades how technology has a huge effect on people’s conversation.

3. As people decide to use technology to communicate more and talk to people less, a potential decline of verbal speaking skills, social skills, and a lack of human presence and warmth may occur.

Societies have become too dependent on the modern technology that is currently available. With modern technology, societies have become physically addicted to technology, modern technology has taken away sense of “family-closeness” that all societies have once felt, and technology has allowed youth to feel as if s/he has to always keep him/her selves informed with current events in the world.

Technology today, has allowed us to connect with people with ease, and has made many tasks so much easier. From desktops to IPhones, the world we live in today allows us to communicate with anybody with wireless access with just a couple clicks of a mouse. As civilization has evolved so has technology, from letters to phone calls to email, basic communication methods have consistently progressed into the complex system we have today. As we become more dependent on technological communication, such improvements will continue to be made.