Winnie Chen
The Theme of Our Age is Favorable Receptance
Were people made to be given so much power to create just anything? Hover cars, teleportation, and holograms are all ideas that had use to sound like futuristic, possibly imaginary, fantasies that had appear to be nearly impossible. However, with the rapid speed of innovative strategies producing in the twenty-first century, these suggestions do not seem to be very far along before they arrive and come to life. The focus of preserving our resources is one of the concepts that never seem to get old. There are always new ways of saving through alternatives, and we have progressed from using cars that only take gas to hybrid or electric cars, and switching from utilizing electricity on
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There is a plethora of topics that can be associated with technology now including social interactions, educational benefits, and entertainments. For example, social media has developed to be a highly impactful and influential technical advance; it has permeated through various equipments such as phones, computers, digital video players, and even automobiles, which explains how news and trends catch on tremendously fast all over the world. Through sharable websites, for instance YouTube, people can openly share their lifestyle and beliefs thus this intermingle of opinions can easily lead to conformation. The trend today is to openly be a nonconformist. However, if we put people from all over the world together in a room, it would impossible to deny their similarities to one another whether it concerns with physical appearance, or even the mindset to be against conformity as the valued poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, pushed forth in the 19th century. Internally, everyone recognizes common ground within one another, and that is through technology. Individuals who despise innovative technology remain to find the spontaneous combustion of 3D pens, 3D printers, and controlling robots with your mind, astounding because it remains to make people flabberghasted to hear of these astonishing creations. Who would have ever thought that you can draw in mid-air, watch something that was nothing become real and tangible, and bewilder others of how powerful their mind can be to control an object with no physical interaction? Suddenly the movies Back to the Future or The Fifth Element do not seem to completely be futuristic and fiction. We are slowly becoming more accepting to foreign imaginations such as holograms and teleportation that are gradually coming into our reality seeing that technology is already performing unimaginable
The world is constantly changing and maneuvering to reimprove itself for the better of the people, or so one may think. There are so many new innovations and forms of technology that are constantly changing. “Look here’s the iPhone 8” and then the next year “look here’s the iPhone 9s plus.” A person would think that as society gets older, it just continues to get better and better; however, in many instances it has been shown to be questionable if today’s society has changed and reimproved at all. Every day on the news there is something wrong with the world like a shooting, or a plane crash, or some sort of harmful violence. Technology has been seen to worsen issues as well as improve them. Advertising has been able to spread through technology
Collectivism not only negatively affects one’s identity, but also the imagination of each individual, in turn impeding the progress of society as a whole. When there is no motivation or passion, productivity suffers. People work the best when it is in their self interest, because humans are inherently selfish. “‘And if this should lighten the toil of men,’ said Similarity 5-0306, ‘then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men.’” When it comes to technology, the Council of Scholars give all kinds of excuses that are detrimental to their society. Even something as basic as a candle took fifty years to be approved. In capitalist society, men work and toil for themselves, not for others, which accounts for the rise of Western countries over communist countries with collectivist cultures. Collectivism causes creativity to be stifled, and prevents individuals from pursuing their passions to contribute their best to
People of all ages suffer from the negative effects of long-term exposure to technology. As technology continues to evolve, the human brain struggles to keep up, and ultimately loses a multitude of once valued abilities, such as the ability to focus, and deep intellectual thinking. People grow severely attached to these new artificial intelligence, that they forget there are other real people whom they can communicate with and share thoughts with. As Fahrenheit 451 has illustrated, our society has evolved to interact with technology on a more personal level, change the way humans interact with one-another, shift the way political subjects are dealt with, and change what the roles of certain people in a community are and how those communities function.
It is easy to tell that the obsession with technology has had major effects on people’s way of life. Political elections are polluted by voters that believe it is a game, Students with answers to questions shoved down their throat in the form of useless facts and a society in which individuality is dangerous. Ray Bradbury demonstrates these issues in his book Fahrenheit 451, by showing how technology desensitizes the population, diminishes thinking for ourselves and limits individuality.
Another thing that was previously stated was that technology was making people act more and more alike. Like how if nobody felt the need to go outside, nobody was out at night which is shown in this paragraph; ‘During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab-beetles, a faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions. But now, these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance.’ Technology in a way took
Impact of Technology On Society Sesan Akerewusi University of Windsor Abstract Technology surrounds us and has dramatically affected the way we live in this present society. From entertainment devices such as the television, communication devices such as the iPhone, life-saving devices such as defibrillators and educational devices such as Microsoft and Apple computers, technology appears to have numerous benefits in certain fields of human life. Today, technology and human lifestyle are like a set that cannot be separated. According to research conducted by technology enthusiast Lulu Chang, the average human spends an alarming 4.7 hours a day on his/her phone, and 8.4 hours a day on media devices in general (Chang, 2015). We live in an
In today’s world, many people believe that technology’s sole purpose is to draw young people away from the real world and reality. Just because you do not realize it, it does not mean it is not happening. If you think back to when you were younger, was technology the same as today? However, technology is forever changing and improving. It affects everyone, not just the young group of people. Technology changes our brains, souls, and our very being. Once technology sucks you into the whole of its essence, you will have a hard time changing your life style.
In the modern day, we use technology to every benefit we can and I am not ashamed of that; my opinion on the use of technology (specifically computers) is that in quantities of moderation, technology can exponentially expand the growth of our civilization. For my second cultural object, I chose my home computer because I can spend upwards of hours upon it each day, primarily doing work or visiting recreational, social websites and games. The renowned scientist Carl Sagan once said, “We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” This quotation blatantly applies to modern day society, where it is nearly impossible to communicate with people without an email or cell phone. The laptop is also an immense part of my culture regarding schoolwork, where I need the laptop to access the websites teachers use. With so many hours per day enveloped the laptop, it has grown to be a large part of my daily routine and culture overall.
Technology has always been a controversial subject between conservative people and innovators. Some people believe that it is a great tool to connect cultures and improve education and innovation in our society today, but others view it as a menace in our lives. “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle and “George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg” by Lori Andrews both view technology as a dangerous tool. They believe in the many drawbacks of technology and the harm it can do to our lives with no explanation of the positive effects it has had on our society. “Our Future Selves” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen plays the role of a positive look at technology and its role in our lives today. It gives examples of how advancing technology helps us and improves so many peoples’s lives. We can use Schmidt and Cohen’s essay as a lens to view the other two texts and gain a different understanding of what they are writing about.
I understand that technology doesn 't always impact our social norms negatively, but in general it leans towards being more negative overall. Technology can even positively affect our social norms, sometimes with social media like Skype, Facebook or Snapchat. I disagree with that side of that argument though, technology most definitely affects our social norms instead. Technology can have crippling effects on our first hand in person face to face confrontations. Technology pulls us away from not only our friends, but also from family, turning dinner into lets all stare at our phone time. Not only that, but technology breaks down both our speaking and writing skills. If we keep letting tech dominate our lives, it
As I sit here and recall my last nineteen long years on this planet and my various interactions with different mediums of technology, it has become very obvious to me that I, like most people where I am from, have had really no major interactions with technology compared to others in my age group. I sit in coffee joints at night and watch people become more introverted than a turtle, ducking into their little shells of technological safety. They look at you through their faux, so-call trendy DKNY knock-off glasses, dressed in their Abercrombie clothes, hiding behind nothing but the glow of a laptop or in the corner talking to someone on their cell phones which just happens to match what they are
According to Wartella and Jennings, “Research has shown that media—along with family, peers, and school—can be a major agent of socialization and learning (35-36).” New technology is the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life (Henslin 58). New technology consists of computers, satellites, the internet, and the microchip (58). In extension this also includes things like e-mail, blogs, video games, e-cash, and podcasts. According to Henslin, “Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group—the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them (69).” A great example of socialization is the social class groups. The different groups have polar opposite attitudes, norms, and values. The upper class might value sports cars, and designer clothes while the middle class values ordinary, affordable cars, and clothes from a less expensive clothing store. New technology and its impact on the socialization process is present in people’s everyday lives, in fact it’s present in many parts of their lives.
Certain media theorists such as Sherry Turkle do an incredible job on studying these properties of technology and their bearing on us, but sometimes seem to dwell on the negative side of the analysis. In short some of these media theorists do astonishing work studying the impact socially that using and communicating through modern technology has, but then takes a negative stance due to their archaic understanding of what is capable with these technologies. We have come so far in the past years in advancing humanity and its natural predicaments while being heavily reliant on technology to communicate. Not noting that advancement is pessimistic and
Mankind has limitless potential. However, we often are first forced to break down old barriers. In the past humans have broken free of gravity and traveled through the skies. Then came the invention of the computer. The idea of millions of calculations performed each minute may have seemed absurd a century ago, but society’s dependence on it today can never be overestimated. The future, I believe, will be an era of power and energy.
The debate of modern technology is one that reaches out to almost everyone in the modern era living in the United States, since it is a first world country, everybody living in the country at one point has interacted with a piece of modern technology. The evolution of technology in the last two decades has been exponentially fast, changing evolution of almost an entire generation in the way that they view things and interact with the world around them. Things such as virtual reality have become attainable when they were only figments of the imagination only 30 years ago, now information is only a click of a button away. Different views surround this issue, as there different factors that can be seen as limitations that