Assignment 2 - Jackson Leach

Jackson Leach

Technology has affected my life, along with the lives of many others, drastically in the beginning of this twenty first century. In my opinion, we are now totally reliant on our devices, and the sudden removal of them would cause mass hysteria in panic, which is a frightening notion to me. In a positive way, technology has eased my ability to communicate with my friends and family, which opens up a lot of new possibilities. It helps with planning events, and exchanging ideas and thoughts quickly and in the comfort of my own home, or even on the go. Technology can be used to cause damage however; and has inconvenienced me several times. Social media can be used now as an outlet for emotional damage now, which is bad. Also for me personally, the tools that our modern technology offers for planning are misused, or even not used at all which always bothers me. Overall I think that technology, particularly cellular devices such as smart phones, are the downfall of my generation and ultimately have weakened our society. They have made us so dependent that it is difficult to think for ourselves, and also have made the common populace so falsely informed that it has learned to use its own ignorance as a weapon in modern day politics. I think that me growing up twenty years ago would cause me to have stronger bonds with my friends and family, and would make me smarter and more independent as a whole. If I could chose to have been born in that time period I would do it without a second thought. I think that in the future technology will continue to dominate peoples' lives and cause more and more problems in the world. It's hard to predict what the future will hold but it is certain that the advancement of social technology will create more and more problems for our society.