The Technology Movement
Katie
100G
Paper #3 Final
Agnieszka Goeller
Mar 13th, 2015
The Technology Movement Technology has changed society profoundly; it not only brings great changes to human material lives, but is also reshaping the nature of the world. It facilitates education, promotes economic development, improves the general standard of living and much more. However, it is undeniable that though technological advancement has brought humans many benefits, it produces some adverse effects on human life to some extent. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone together,” she introduces some of these negative effects such as how robots and social media are impacting human lives and how they can have an impact on defining intimacy and relationships based on her fifteen-year observation of human lives on the digital field. She also mentions that people are replacing one another with technology, and they prefer social media over face-to-face communication, which reflects their attitudes of intimacy has changed due to technology. Also, Malcolm Gladwell talks about the difference between traditional activism and online activism in his essay “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” He suggests that traditional activism has changed society more effectively than online activism since it has strong ties among people, while online activism has difficulty reaching a consensus of people because of its weak ties. Today, humans rely too much on technology, and although they have common habits and behaviors of using it, it cannot truly bind them together because it has no authenticity and it challenges the intimate relationships as well as human attitudes. While technology does provide advanced information and better communication measures, it challenges the intimate relationships between people. As technology develops, social media such as Instagram and Facebook have attracted more and more attention and recognition in society; they provide people different ways of communication such as video
100G
Paper #3 Final
Agnieszka Goeller
Mar 13th, 2015
The Technology Movement Technology has changed society profoundly; it not only brings great changes to human material lives, but is also reshaping the nature of the world. It facilitates education, promotes economic development, improves the general standard of living and much more. However, it is undeniable that though technological advancement has brought humans many benefits, it produces some adverse effects on human life to some extent. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone together,” she introduces some of these negative effects such as how robots and social media are impacting human lives and how they can have an impact on defining intimacy and relationships based on her fifteen-year observation of human lives on the digital field. She also mentions that people are replacing one another with technology, and they prefer social media over face-to-face communication, which reflects their attitudes of intimacy has changed due to technology. Also, Malcolm Gladwell talks about the difference between traditional activism and online activism in his essay “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” He suggests that traditional activism has changed society more effectively than online activism since it has strong ties among people, while online activism has difficulty reaching a consensus of people because of its weak ties. Today, humans rely too much on technology, and although they have common habits and behaviors of using it, it cannot truly bind them together because it has no authenticity and it challenges the intimate relationships as well as human attitudes. While technology does provide advanced information and better communication measures, it challenges the intimate relationships between people. As technology develops, social media such as Instagram and Facebook have attracted more and more attention and recognition in society; they provide people different ways of communication such as video