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Technology: Comparing Kelly And Thompson

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However, writers such as Kelly and Thompson do not believe that technology leads people to become more isolated. Instead, they claim that technology allows people to connect more easily. Technology has advanced tremendously; this has led people to meet people at a quicker pace. Meeting people over social media, however, is not as effective because, connecting to the idea presented earlier, the quality of the relationship is instantly downgraded. People seem to lose the genuine aspect one gains from friendship. However, Kelly and Thompson both oppose this position. The access people have to the Internet has become a massive norm to what people do today; therefore, people are inclined to connect more with others technologically than to connect …show more content…

Technology is creating things for people to ease up their lives and make things such as connecting with people easier. Kelly idea is similar to and also agree with Thompson’s claim that today’s tools make it easier for people to find connections (Thompson 349). There even comes a point where the connection and interactions people make with technology become essential. Thompson explains that with the help of the robot, people will immediately become smarter, connecting to the idea in the previous paragraph (Thompson 344). Making these different types of connections with the help of technology essentially does the opposite of isolating; it created more ties with both people and robots, increasing ones’ intelligence. When it comes to the topic of technology, most people will readily agree that it has negatively made people become more isolated. On the other hand, writer such as Kelly and Thompson are convinced that technology allows people to connect more easily. My own view is that although technology does make people more isolated, technology is a go to for many that are …show more content…

Even though the intentions of technology have shown to help people in innovative ways, one tends to use technology in the harmful ways. However, this is true of just about anything that can give one pleasure, such as consuming too much food or abusing prescribed drugs. There is not one thing out in the world that will be beneficial to all when used for the wrong reasons. For example, Turkle presents the story of Tara and Alice where Tara was using only technology to communicate with Alice and discovered that when Tara and Alice met in person, Alice had been going through a rough time due to her loss. Here is a perfect example go how technology was being misused. Instead of using technology for searching something, she abused it by using it for her primary source of communication. On the other hand, technology has never been blamed for actually harming someone. As one can see, people are most likely to use technology in the wrong ways,therefore one can conclude that the hurts outweigh the benefits of

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