It has been exactly one hundred and forty years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call to his assistant, Watson. It has been more than thirty years ever since the debut of cell phones. It has been forty five years since the first email being sent with the message QWERTYUIOP, from Ray Tomlinson, who invented email, to himself. It has been over a decade since the birth of Facebook, a whole new wave of technology revolutionize us.And now, at 2016, almost everyone who is thirteen and above have a cell phone, if not smartphone, of their owns. Walking around Santa Monica College campus, it is not hard for me to see that roughly seventy percent of the students who are facing their phones instead of facing each others and have a conversation.
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Andrew R.J. Yeaman says, “The misuse of our technology has not been prohibited by legislation As I mentioned above, it is not hard for ones to see that phombies, also known as phone zombies are everywhere now. According to Urban Dictionary, the slang ‘phombie’ or phone zombie, it is a person who walks around while staring at their phone’s screen. They are almost always stumbling slowly in the way of general progress, likely to be seen blocking the only path. Usually oblivious and inconsiderate. Before I proceed any further, let’s me state my thesis again: Technology is not all bad. It is us who have misused it. We got so used to the feeling of being bothered, or as we claimed, being ‘connected’ and we got depended on it. We would freaked out if we go for a way without receiving any text nor call. We are afraid of being abandoned to the point we can not and do not want to be in our solitude. Later on in her article, Turkle states “ We expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship (51).” Although I do agree with her statement, I do not agree with her viewpoints, which technology is the reason why we do not converse anymore. She succeeded in using her ethos as a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, …show more content…
Amy Goldwasser, the freelance editor for Vogue and Seventeen has talked about this in one of her articles, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” The author opens her article by introducing two points of views. One of the two perspective is kids use the electronic and spend way too much time on the Internet; hence they “don’t read, don’t write, don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods (1).” The other one is because adults, parents specifically, afraid of what they do not know of, as a part of human nature. By using the filling-in-the-gap model, she acknowledges both sides of the arguments and hence points out that why can’t we just view the Internet as a mean of
Andrew R.J. Yeaman says, “The misuse of our technology has not been prohibited by legislation As I mentioned above, it is not hard for ones to see that phombies, also known as phone zombies are everywhere now. According to Urban Dictionary, the slang ‘phombie’ or phone zombie, it is a person who walks around while staring at their phone’s screen. They are almost always stumbling slowly in the way of general progress, likely to be seen blocking the only path. Usually oblivious and inconsiderate. Before I proceed any further, let’s me state my thesis again: Technology is not all bad. It is us who have misused it. We got so used to the feeling of being bothered, or as we claimed, being ‘connected’ and we got depended on it. We would freaked out if we go for a way without receiving any text nor call. We are afraid of being abandoned to the point we can not and do not want to be in our solitude. Later on in her article, Turkle states “ We expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship (51).” Although I do agree with her statement, I do not agree with her viewpoints, which technology is the reason why we do not converse anymore. She succeeded in using her ethos as a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, …show more content…
Amy Goldwasser, the freelance editor for Vogue and Seventeen has talked about this in one of her articles, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” The author opens her article by introducing two points of views. One of the two perspective is kids use the electronic and spend way too much time on the Internet; hence they “don’t read, don’t write, don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods (1).” The other one is because adults, parents specifically, afraid of what they do not know of, as a part of human nature. By using the filling-in-the-gap model, she acknowledges both sides of the arguments and hence points out that why can’t we just view the Internet as a mean of