Comparing Appleyard And Doctorow

Both the given article of Appleyard and Doctorow discuss the most important and interesting thing in todays world. Generally speaking, we call science and technology as a boon to modern generation, This technology has made our lives so mechanical and disastrous that we hardly realize it. It is quite admissible that the technology has made the life of a human being very easy but little does a human being realizes how it is gradually killing them. According to Doctorow, “It’s like watching someone shovel Mars Bars into his gob while telling you how much he hates chocolate.”( ) Appleyard is of the similar opinion and says that a man is harassed by self inflected technology as a result of which we all are distracted and interacted.
Doctorow is
They hardly realize that the quality of the output will definitely deteriorate. Pertaining to people addiction to read the books on screen, Doctorow makes it clear that people who read off screen all day along by a lot of print books and read them primarily on paper. He compares the number to the people who prefer the electronic existence of the book but this number according to Doctorow is
He goes on to say, “What happened when we talk on a mobile phone while driving.”( ) He explains the fact that we listen to the language on phone while driving as a result of which we lose the ability to take up the ability of the road sign. He categorically says, “Destruction kills you and other.”( ) According to him, todays high tech life has not only affected the work life but also the domestic life. When the T.V in the house is switched on, the test clearly shows that the quality and the quantity of interaction between the children and parents have reduced. Doctorow is of the similar opinion when he says, “Attentions spans don’t increase when you move from the Pc to the handled device.”(