Dr. Larry Rossen's Our Obsessive Relationship With Technology

“For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. ”(736) He then goes on about how finding what you need used to require days and now can be done in just a few minutes. He then goes into saying that if he’s not working he finds himself reading and writing emails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. Even myself I can say that I spend most of my time on my phone or playing a

In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he goes on to state that technology is causing us to change the way we think as well as process ideas. This article grabbed my attention which made me think about how I am with technology. I have caught myself falling back into the trap of technology. I am slowly becoming addicted

All humans have a brain, and we must use them as they are the most important organ that keeps us alive; we make connections with others by using it, so one should never put it to waste. His last sentence, “As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence”. This has a reader thinking about themselves, and what actions they continue to take, with how much the Internet is being consumed, and how little use it is providing them and their

One of the biggest trends over the past year has been taking a picture on your phone with the front facing camera better known as a selfie, but is it possible that the youth who created this movement also be helping the general population as a whole? This is what Becky Fleischauer argues in her editorial titled; “How the Selfie Will Save Us”. In this editorial Becky is trying to prove the point that the youth of today could actually be helping the population a lot by being on their phones so much. Her argument is some what rhetorically successful because of the broad intended audience, the authors strong use of logos, the somewhat effective use of pathos, and the effective use of ethos. Becky Fleischauer’s intended audience in this editorial

Over time, gadgets and gizmos have taken attention from many Americans. Maggie Jackson gives prominence to this point in “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.” According to Jackson, technology has become too advanced for attention’s sake. In her essay, Jackson states that “we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation & sensory detachment. In this new world, something is amiss.

To start off, we see how Carr doesn’t insert his thesis until a few paragraphs into the article. His thesis being, “And what the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 610). With this thesis, we are shown how Carr gives us insight on his view of the internet, which is later solidified with various examples. He used other writers and bloggers to back up his point as well. For example, Bruce Friedman is blogger who typically works on the computers effect in the use of modern medicine.

In "My Vassar College Commencement Speech for the Class of 2015" Arianna Huffington wrote and delivered this speech to the Vassar College graduating class of 2015. Ms. Huffington is the co-editor and chief of the Huffington Post. She 's a well-known Greek novelist and is highly credited for her contributions to journalism and politicism. She has sufficient background to speak on her chosen topic of technology. More specifically, Huffington spoke about the excess of technology creates obsession in our younger generations.

It’s the two together, working side by side.” (Thompson 347). This goes to show that his view on the effect of computers on humans is exclusively positive, he feels that humans using computers to help them in their own tasks makes things a lot easier and overall helps make us

When people are talking on a cellular phone and walking around, they tend to lose the sense of what is going on around them, which leaves them blind to any potential threat because of carelessness, and they miss the offer that is given at that moment in time. In this article, “Disconnected Urbanism” by Paul Goldberger from the textbook on page 235, Goldberger discusses about people’s usage of cellular phones — today’s one of the most effective technology in the world that have changed people’s lives — talks about how the cellular phones are impacting people who living in a densely populated urban area, how people are now becoming disconnected from the world around them, and what are causing to their ability to perceive space. He talks about the seriousness of technology in the world to the readers with persuasive and pessimistic phrases from a subjective point of view. In his overall narration, he compares and contrasts between two different main objects to persuade the readers.

Too much screen use induces less communication between people and more time spent using technology. Technology used in our society in the same way. Sometimes people use television to forget about a hard time at work, others using phones in public, so they don’t have to interact with other people. “Little by little, technology has become an integral part of the way that people communicate with one another and has increasingly taken the place of face-to-face communication. Due to the rapid expansion of technology, many individuals fear that people may be too immersed in this digital world and not present enough in the real world,”.

Is Bradbury's Fantasy Becoming Our Reality Technological growth is one of the biggest moving innovations in our everyday lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury speaking about the future society where books are outlawed and no one thinks for themselves. Bradbury speaks about the struggle that certain characters have trying to involve books back into society. In our everyday lives, we are constantly flooded with social media and always have a need to pick up our phones. Children are beginning to learn keyboarding at a much younger age, as opposed to working on their penmanship.

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.

In Nicholas Carr’s article, “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds” (November 10, 2017) Carr discusses the implications of allowing our smartphones to have such a huge effect on our lives. Smartphones serve many purposes, and have created massive societal effects throughout the world despite being introduced roughly only two decades ago. One can converse with anyone in the world at any given moment, they can watch any television show they want, and they can receive alerts so they no longer have to put effort into remembering things themselves. However, with so much control over people’s own lives, one begins to wonder about the negative consequences of the smartphones themselves.

In our world, Society gets watched twenty-four seven and some people know it, but they either do not care or just go along. So in reality, Society could prevent this problem by removing social media off of their habits and be spy free. “Young adults (85% of whom are smartphone owners) are also incorporating their mobile devices into a host of information seeking and transactional behaviors. About three-quarters of 18-29 year old smartphone owners have used their phone in the last year to get information about a health condition; about seven-in-ten have used their phone to do online banking or to look up information about job; 44% have consumed educational content on their phone; and 34% have used their phone to apply for a job.” “Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away...of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment” (2-3).

According to me he does in fact put forward his points quite efficiently and I will try to do the same. He talks about a emotional aspect of life and in relates it to technology in comparing love to liking. People often run from love because of the risks and hurt associated with it. This has been capitalized by the the tech-consumer market . The market offers people the perfect relationship with their phone or laptop.