Analyzing Langdon Winner's 'Technambulism'

Technology shaping the world

Technology has shaped and defined human activity and it has made life easier but more dangerous. As Langdon Winner explains in his piece, Technological Somnambulism, technology is a neutral tool. It can be used in a positive or a negative way. As well, Modern technology can be dangerous in many different ways. As more technology becomes available to the public, more people rely on it. This could be a problem; for example when many people want to figure something out, they will probably just type the question into Google. Technology allows us to think less about certain things, which may be easier but it “dumbs us down”. This could be considered dangerous because we may rely on technology too much and we could become lazy with our everyday rituals. With that said, technology has also helped us improve medicine and science to help cure certain diseases. Without these improvements we wouldn’t be as strong as a community. There seems to always be positive and negative things that come with technology.
A piece of technology that is very commonly known is a nuvi; this is a GPS navigator that when you put in an address, it will give you the quickest directions to your destination. People usually use it in their cars so they can travel faster to places and so they don’t have to do it the old fashioned way by using a map. The nuvi is becoming very popular. People are buying these little GPS navigators and sticking to their windshield. I got my license two years ago and my parents leased a car for me to drive. They gave me a nuvi and put it on the windshield of the car. I didn’t use it much at first because I was only driving to places that I knew that were close by. After several months of driving and practice, my parents let me drive wherever I wanted to