The Purpose Of Spending A Day Without Technology

We rely on technology for everything in our lives today. It is hard for us to be more than ten steps away from our phone. Dependence on technology is even evident in Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, the TV is everything to some people. It becomes their friend their family and even their life. They even have technology that butters their toast and medical procedures. We use technology everyday whether it is our phone, laptop, or ipod. We use them every single day all day long. If something was not to work for a single day our society would crash with the absence of technology.

Ever since technology began so prominent in the modern world, can anyone remember going outside for more than 30 minutes and not see a cell phone or computer? Probably not, as these pieces of technology have become so ingrained in people’s lives, no one wants to leave their home without still being connected. And there is no reason to, as friends, family, and strangers share the same sentiments. Unplugging from technology is not only a decision people don’t make for personal reasons, it simply isn’t conducive to a productive life, as many people’s work and social lives wouldn’t be the same, if exist at all, without being connected to other people or the internet with just a single touch.

Many people today rely on technology like it is indispensable. The pathetic desire for electronics has consumed how people think and how people live. Richard Louv writes to his generation of the increasing disconnection of humans from nature in his book, Last Child in the Woods. Louv takes a stand against the separation by including personal anecdote, rhetorical questions, and visual imagery.

People think that technology is their life but in reality it is not. Technology is just something that entertains you. It is not the most important thing in life you can literally go at least a month without your phone even though you think that you cannot. I have had to do it before for six months. People can live without their phones and one example of putting our phones down is when I went to Altitude last night and we were all on trampolines playing dodge ball and throwing and dodging during the game and being active and none of us had our phones out texting or looking at social media so it really was not that hard to put down my phone. In Fahrenheit 451 there was a character named Montag

People who become too accustomed to lives based around technology will no longer interact in the real world. Today people rely on technology for many things such as communication, entertainment, transportation, e.t.c. For example, in Ray Bradbury’s work “The Pedestrian”, the world has diminished into lives lived sitting in front of TV screens. He writes, “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them”, (Bradbury, 60). In this example Bradbury describes the life of people watching television all day and seeing the sights on-screen, but not being inspired or enlightened to go outside to experience it. Most people prefer to stay

Scientists say that using email, texting, or searching the web can change how someone thinks or behaves. “The stimulation [of technology use] provokes excitement – a dopamine squirt – that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored,” says Matt Richtel of the New York Times. Addiction to technology may not compare to the addiction of certain drugs, but being a student who is addicted to something that creates different social interactions, and doesn’t allow deep thought, could be very bad. “In 2008, people consumed three times as much [technology] each day as they did in 1960,” Matt says. This rate has already increased, and a break from it wouldn’t be a bad thing. Researchers worry that constant digital stimulation like this creates attention problems for children with brains that are still developing, who already struggle to set priorities and resist impulses,” Matt says. Students in high school, or even in college, have brains that are still developing. A week off from the technology would allow these students to develop skills, with their growing brains, that could be used instead of electronics.

The Internet makes everything nearly effortless now. Schwartz writes, “Endless access to new information also easily overloads our working memory.” Now, instead of going to a Library to do research you can access the same information in just a fraction of the time. Another article tells a short story of a 15-year-old girl said that “when she went out to dinner with her father and he took out his phone to add ‘facts’ to their conversation” (Turkle). The lifestyle of being able to go out to dinner with your family and not checking handheld devices cease to

When we walked into the 21century, technology has not only become an important part of our daily life, it has been advanced at a rate we could never imagined. Technology broadens our horizon and shows us so many aspects of the world. However, the more advanced technology becomes, the more we lose our ability to care for others, which is a significant part of our humanity. We use machines a lot more in our daily life instead of ourselves. Due to this, the open world makes it more difficult to concentrate and focus on ourselves , others and our environment. In “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”, Richard believes that modern technology makes us less attentive and hard to concentrate on one thing. The development of technology does bring us convenience and let communication become easier and faster, while we become too rely on our technology and use them to store our memories, communicating and so on. In “We Are a Camera”, Nick claims that we are more likely to use electronic products to record our memories instead of our own brain.Technology could make people become too lazy to memorize or talk to each other face to face. The development of technology lets us become more connected to the whole world, however, we also spend less time with our close friends and family. We are losing our humanity because we rely on technology more than ourselves, this is shown evident through cognitive attempts at multi-tasking which is to follow society’s fast speed and focus

What is technology to you? For some people, it's a lifeline they can't go without it. If you were a gamer, how would you feel about not being able to play for a whole week? What about music junkies? Not being able to match a song to each of your feelings for a whole 168 hours. Possibilities are endless but participating in “Shut Down Your Screen Week” is not one of them. For instance, being plugged into social media allows you to look over and receive news, and look at the diversity of the world. Also, the internet contains so many astonishing materials. Although, screens provide us with many convenient things it is also addicting.

The National Shut Down Your Screen Week can show us what it's like to have no access to technology. Having no technology can teach us to be independent and to try new things. If we didn't have technology we would probably be doing things we don't normally do like read. Author Nicholas Carr said “ if you're really interested in developing your mind, you should turn off your computer and cell phone and start thinking.” No technology can make us learn more about things we’ve never experienced.

In today's generation people don't take the time to observe their surroundings. They just focus on the screens that are in their hands. Technology has changed nature’s beauty. Technology is the only observation and thing that people take the time to stop what they are doing and look at. Throughout time things have changed people stop focusing on the things around them. People have stopped talking to the people around them just to focus on their technology.

But it was mainly the little things of technology that they miss, the little things in their normal day routine that they missed. “An incomplete list: No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No more trains running under the surface of cities on the dazzling power of the electric third rail. No more cities.” (. St. John Mandel’s) People don’t take things for granted till they lose it. Technology clearly serves an important part in our society; most people cannot even be without their cellphones for at most 5

The advancement of technology has given us two realities, our digital self and our real self. We have come to rely on technology, to such an extent in our daily functions, that we get anxiety when we are not using it for a period of time. The usage of technology is not inherently bad, but the neglect of the people we around, is bad. We feel the need to constantly stay connected to our virtual reality, that we may forget that we are living in the present day.

Bobina, Katrina. "Wall-e Essay: Technology vs. Humankind." My Life in Just a Few Words. 28 Nov. 2011. https://kreppell.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/wall-e-essay-technology-vs-humankind/. Accessed 20 Mar. 2017. What did we ever do before technology? We should live our own lives without the use of technology but have become so dependent on it, it’s like an addiction. “Wall-e” is a Pixar movie based on humans that have destroyed the planet because they don’t care for the environment. Now, we tend to not be able to go a whole day without a phone or laptop. Like the humans in the movie Wall-e, we are controlled and driven by technology. Don’t get me wrong, technology has help us in many good ways, but it has been a major distraction. When was the last time you went outside and spoke to a neighbor? People do not go out and socialize face to face anymore. Instead, they hook up to Wi-Fi and get on a social media site, email, or text. Faces are always buried into phone screens. If we were ever to have robots do everything for us, cutting grass, picking up trash, etc., and technology were to fail us, people will be too lazy to pick back up where we left off. The reliability of technology and the effects it has on us and our environment has got to come to an end soon or later, or we will no longer have a planet that is fit for the human population to live. I believe that this

An hour without technology this should be a piece of cake, right. Wrong. The first point in my day when I observed my reliance on technology was when I walked into the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee. As a approach my wonderful Keurig coffee maker (that brews a fabulous espresso in little as one minute), I laughed within myself because for a second I wondered if this would be considered using technology, it was then I realized being in the house was not going to work; especially on my day off. In an attempt to remove myself completely from technology, I decided to treat myself to lunch in the park. It’s been a long time since I’ve had (what I like to call) “Me Time” and this was the