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The advancement of technology that our society has been privileged with, is starting to take over human’s emotions and replace them with those of a robot. When it comes to the discussion of technology, I have mixed feelings because, in my opinion, we do have a great tool in the palm of our hands. However, I also think human emotions and actions are starting to become robot-like. We need to be able to process emotions so that we can better our understanding of not only each other but also ourselves. I strongly think society needs to evict the virtual world and come back to the real world although it is safe to say I personally have a love-hate relationship with technology.

Nicholas Carr is “an American journalist and technology writer” who attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Over the past decade, Carr has examined and studied the different impacts that computers have on our life and the “social consequences” of this new technology (Carr 123). In “A Thing Like Me” by Nicholas Carr, the author claims that technology is overpowering and dominating our lives. Carr expands on this idea further by defining it as people using “tools that allow them to extend their abilities” (Carr 124). To help with his argument, Carr uses a historical narrative about the creation of computer software, named ELIZA. Carr uses the creation of ELIZA as a way to get his point across to the reader. The creator of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum, programmed a system into the computer that essentially allowed ELIZA to be able to have conversations with virtually anyone.

The internet could be the most valuable invention that was made in the modern age. With the force of the web individuals basically can do anything. From learning how to cook to building a car. The possibility is endless. The modernization of the internet can have positive and negative effects on the world. The modernization of the web can have positive and negative consequences on the world. It is sure in light of the fact that it gives everyone the power to access any information, that they need in second. In any case, it is contrary since individuals start to get limited focus and just focus on the things they need to see as opposed to seeing the full picture.

David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, addresses the Kenyon Class of 2005 at their commencement in his speech, This is Water. Mainly, Wallace’s speech proposes the purpose of a liberal arts education is not about knowledge, but rather about being able to consciously decide how to distinguish others, how to think, and how to act everyday. Interestingly enough, Wallace states that it’s extraordinary difficult to stay continually conscious in the adult world everyday due to our default settings. He asserts that our hard-wired default settings are to be deeply and literally self-centered. I agree with Wallace’s point concerning our hard-wired default settings because of the difficulties of being empathetic to others, the desolation of being

It changed how people viewed research, medicine, and communication. Where scientists were once baffled and confused, they are now able to understand more than ever before with technology’s helping hand, diving deeper into the ocean, space, the human body and more. Decades ago, communication between different societies was a nearly impossible concept to grasp whereas now a simple touch of a phone can allow communication to all parts of the world. The advancement of a site like Facebook, although looked down upon by many, including the critics Jurgenson decided to include in his essay, allows people to pick and choose who they can share their lives with and if the said group has to listen and prod through pictures. The site originated as a dating site of sorts that then innovated to a world where people can reconnect with lost ties they once had. Not everyone that a person once associated with still lives in close proximity to said person and thus allows for people to reconnect with people from all parts of the globe that have access to internet. Jurgenson illustrates the notion that people putting photos and scribing statuses on platforms such as Facebook are engaging acts of validity, thus proving that a said someone’s online life is “real”. Furthermore, sharing something on the internet is not just for online friends or showing someone “pics or it didn’t happen”

The rapid expansion of technological growth is immersing our culture. The Nathan Jurgenson’s “The IRL Fetish”, argues that people have weird obsessions about the offline. Technological advances allow people to experience the online, but Jurgenson realizes that people are also fetishizing the movement against the online. People and novelists who complain the online world laments, “Writer after writer laments the loss of a sense of disconnection, of boredom (now redeemed as a respite from anxious info-cravings) …” (Jurgenson 127). People believe technological advances are changing the public’s mind that they must avoid and restrain from using the technologies because they are destroying our experience with real life. This new movement is educating

Too much technology will cause a society to become isolated. For example in The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead likes to go for walks late at night, and he has enjoyed this for the past eight years. It seems to be, the narrator writes, “the street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry” (174).

In the essay, “Isolated by the Internet”, author Clifford Stoll explains that recent research, conducted by psychologists Robert Kraut and Vicki Lundmark, suggests that frequent use of the Internet has had a generally negative effect on the psychological well being of its users. Using examples from Kraut and Lundmark’s previously mentioned research, Stoll asks, “Will the proliferation of shallow, distant social ties make up for the loss of close local links?” The question Stoll raises here is entirely valid, and just as concerning; as the more time one spends online, the more time one subsequently spends alone, away from people he or she could be potentially interacting with. I believe Stoll’s concerns are completely justified as today, (falsely comforted by shallow, superficial relationships,

Reading about nature can only do so much to satisfy ones curiosity since they are learning about it through someone else’s perspective. Henry David Thoreau decided to learn about nature on through experiencing it. He immerges himself directly into nature to become one with it.

That we live too much for others rather than ourselves. That we at least live out the small remnant of life for ourselves. To let us now call in our thoughts, intentions to ourselves, and to discover one’s self. What Montaigne has in mind isn’t so much what we think of as solitude as in being alone, but rather being comfortable with one’s self in a state of retirement. He describes solitude as a “room at the back of the shop. Keeping it entirely free and establishing there our true liberty, our principle solitude and asylum” that “within it, our normal conversation should be ourselves, with ourselves, so privy that no commerce or communication with the outside world should find a place there. There we should laugh as if we had no wife, no children, no possessions, no followers, and no menservants.” (Screech 100). Which provides a sense of solitude for in case we have to go through it, we can be used to those things that we never actually

According to Psychology Today, solitude is the state of being alone without being lonely and it can lead to self awareness. Solitude and loneliness raise interesting questions that relate to our everyday lives. It is healthy? Are we ever alone? Is it a necessary part of life? People have many different perspectives on what is healthy and what is not healthy for humans not only mentally but also physically. No one can be for sure, but we can make our own conclusions. Though some argue that being alone is not a good thing, and that does more harm to people than it does good, it is proven that being alone improves focus and strengthens personal attachments.

The current rate of technological development has allowed us to integrate many devices into our everyday lifestyle. However, there is a price that comes with the use of new technology and that price is loneliness. We are becoming alone day after day, is what many are stating. People have differing opinions when it comes to this, but my opinion is the only one that matters. I do believe technology makes us more lonely but it depends on the person.

The differences between loneliness and isolation is that loneliness is when you don 't have any friends or family and just alone and isolation is when you choose to be by yourself , as in isolating yourself from everything. Being lonely has to deal with both social barriers and isolation is just dealing with personal choice. Most people enjoy loneliness rather than isolation because isolation is something that someone choose to do and no-one wants to be lonely so it 's most likely that people will avoid being lonely. Isolation have to deal with a lot of canceling out and being by themselves or choosing to be by themselves , and also its because they have to be lonely so they can focus on what they want to do or what goal they

Technology is becoming more popular now and it dose not make them feel alone. A lot of people use technology now more than before, and it helps them know more people, and make them more connected. Also, it makes them play with each other, and make them having really fun and good time playing. But a lot of people think technology will make us more alone because technology make people separate from each other. According to Lindsey Craig in her article “Technology -- we all love it and we all use it, but how is it affecting us?” she stated that “Technology is making us more alone, because instead of interacting with our friends in person, we are dependent on using our phones or tablets. We start to compare

Billions have taken this religion along with their already-held beliefs, practicing both side by side. This new and fast-sweeping religion that we are all a part of is the religion of technology, where people worship the new gods of the internet and the television.