Moving Too Fast

Technology has become so integrated into our daily lives. It is now common to see people with a hands-free earpiece plugged into their ear and who appear to be talking to themselves. The above summary is from an article by Sherry Turkle titled, The Documented Life, and discusses how modern technology has caused us to put our lives on hold. I do agree with Turkle as she made several good points that there has been a negative shift in the way we

Cell phones bring people together. “The idea behind Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram is to make us feel connected all the time” (Document 1). Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram can help us keep in touch with our friends (Document 1). Facebook connects more of us to more of our friends and family in more places than we have ever been connected before. (Document 1). Along with this I can say that cell phones are a useful tool.

All advantages have corresponding disadvantages. Sherry Turkle’s essay “Connectivity and its Discontents” address her stance towards technological communication. Throughout her essay, she provides examples that illustrate how the world is consistently depending on technology for communication. Turkle’s opinion towards the issue is that, “she believes we’ll eventually sacrifice communication for mere connection.” Her examples make the reader consider that technological communication leads to human beings losing intensity in communication in both personal and professional situations because of distraction and convenience. The twenty-first century widely introduced a variety technological advancements which made people rely often on the technology. Thinking back to her opinion towards the issue I would agree with the idea that humans are becoming too attached to technology, but I would disagree that technology draws a wedge between people.

As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have become easier. Technology has changed the way we go through life. It’s made talking to people easier, as well as keeping up with the lives of others. However, the effects have affected the aspects of our lives that don’t include technology.

Cell phones; also known as thing that the human race revolves around. But how can we blame ourselves? You can do almost anything on your phone, right there in your hand. Most of us wouldn’t last a day without being able to check Instagram or text our friends. You can communicate with anyone anywhere. It’s hard to think about where we would be without them. Most likely, nowhere near where we are today.

When technology is overused, social interaction can be hindered and an obsession may be formed. Montag’s, wife Mildred, develops a relationship with technology that ultimately affects her both mentally and socially. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes various pieces of technology. The first electronic device the reader encounters is the seashell radio, which are tiny radios similar to ear buds. Mildred wears them frequently, so often, that she even wears them to bed. “There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea.”(pg 10). This quote used to describe Mildred's relationship with the seashell radio conveys how much technology has influenced her.

In our society, technology is ruling over us and people are spending so much time on these technologies. Ray Bradbury predicted in Fahrenheit 451 that technology will cause a downfall in human interaction, “She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles,” (16). In Fahrenheit 451, there are alot of different things that cause noise and stop interaction between the people. Tvs, earbuds, and driving at high speeds causes interaction between people to cease and not possible anymore in the book. It is a world where people do not talk much and just listen to music, people on tv, or just

Instant gratification is something that everybody is used to nowadays. Whether wanting to find an answer to a question, needing to add numbers together or finding out if a pregnancy test is positive, answers come instantly. Most people do not realize that earlier generations did not have those answers available in the blink of an eye. People had to wait for things. They had patience and realized that not everything in the world is instant. Society now demands that everything should happen right away and we should not have to wait for anything, but that is making the world full of impatient, entitled people. Since most people do not know what it’s like to not have instant gratification most individuals take that for granted. Instant gratification has caused a lot of problems in society, including taking away face-to-face communication, patience, and certainty.

There are numerous devices now that the options are vast giving people the luxury to be able to trade and purchase advanced or more sophisticated products. In this quote from the article in implies this very act when it says “As mobile gadgets exploded we became a culture that abandons its gear regularly.” It observes our society and how it’s matured into needing constant advancement.

There are three main reasons why technology is damaging our society; it’s affecting our way of communicating with each other, reducing our self-reliance, and, last but not least, it’s dominating our society. The first reason, that it’s affecting our way of communicating with each other, is very prevalent in Fahrenheit 451 and our current society. In our current society, we use a many types of technology to communicate with each other. This ranges from iPads to iPhones to household telephones, etc.. This allows us to talk to each other without having to be close to each other, which presents the problem of diminishing the need for engagement with others. In Fahrenheit 451, a character by the name of Faber, invents a small radio that is to be inserted into the ear of Montag, which allows them to communicate with each other whenever they need to without having to have a face-to-face conversation. This also diminishes the need for engagement with others. Another situation is also faced in this book when firemen burn houses instead of preventing houses from burning. This occurs when the firemen find books of any kind in someone’s house because of the book ban in this novel. Not letting people read also diminishes the need for engagement with books, which links on to the bigger dilemma of

In our society, technology is ruling over us, and people are spending so much time on these technologies. Ray Bradbury predicted in Fahrenheit 451 that technology will cause a downfall in human interaction. He creates characters who do not listen to each other: “She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles” (Bradbury 16). In Fahrenheit 451, technologies cause noise and stop interaction between the people. TVs, earbuds, and driving at high speeds cause interaction between people to cease. It is a world where people do not talk much and just listen to music, people on tv, or loud noises to block out the world around them. Professor Michael Bull says that MP3 players are being used for long periods of time in our society, suggesting “that when people switch to an MP3 player, they listen to music for twice as long as before” (Castella). People in our society listen to music to escape the world around them because they may not want to listen to people talking on phones or to other people. People also listen to music when they are doing something, and sometimes it helps them do their homework. Bradbury did predict this in his novel, and now our society is like the society in Fahrenheit 451 with everyone having earbuds in their ears. While technology has been a means of separating us from the world, it is also bringing in more

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury speculated many things, but one thing that he speculated that came true was people will wear headphones or “seashells” instead of talking to each other and that we would talk through the headphones instead of talking on our phones. He showed this when Mildred and Montag were home together and Mildred has the seashells in her ears. “She had both ears plugged with the electronic bees that were humming the hour away. She looked up suddenly, saw him, and nodded”(Bradbury, 22). This happens in our society when students are walking in the halls between classes and most people have their headphones in instead of talking to each other. Then he speculated that people will have bluetooth technology when Montag and Faber

Smartphones, smart tvs and other gadgets may seem fun and cool but it almost impossible to know whether the technology you are buying could raise serious privacy concerns (nytimes article). Money is probably one of the most important things you need to survive in a society like ours. What if all the money you had was taken? This could easily happen, especially since here have been gadgets created by the police and FBI that can track phones. If more information is released about these gadgets, hacking may become easier than ever. Hackers will have access to everything on phones, computers etc. Bank account pins, passwords, and more are all kept and devices like these. Putting all this information on our phones may seem good because it is all a click away, but this information can easily be stolen. Many people are saying “that privacy is no longer a social norm” (bits.blogs.nytimes). It’s scary to think that privacy is pretty much gone. Nothing is private anymore because once you put something on the internet it is there forever. Bradbury showed this scary truth through the novel. He thought up a kind of advanced walkie-talkie system. It was a little piece you put in your ear and then the other person could hear everything around you. These devices were called ears. This technology doesn’t seem to hard to make now and it’s scary to think that someone “could out ears out into all parts of the city” and be listening to you without you even knowing (Bradbury 87). In the novel, firemen can send a “hound around your place” as a way to spy on you (Bradbury 107). In reality, our phones and other gadgets are kind of like the hound. Police and other people may be spying on us without us knowing. Clearly technology is making privacy disappear in real life just as Bradbury predicted in his

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.

Do personal technologies like phones, iPods, and computers connect or disconnect us? The opinions vary from person to person and generation to generation. Two opinions that we’ll look at specifically are from Andrew Sullivan, a blogger and columnist for the Sunday Times of London, and Anna Akbari, a professor at New York University. When looked at briefly, Sullivan and Akbari’s views seem to be like the opposite sides of the same coin. Sullivan argues from a more personal standpoint that personal technology shuts us out from the world. Akbari, on the other hand, sees technology and our personal devices as a way to open the world up to us and provides facts and results from professional studies that