Modern Tecnology
Modern technology, which includes the television, advertising, and cell phones, negatively affects individuals and relationships between citizens, politics, religion, and the society as a whole. In the articles by Turkle, Postman, and Killbourne, they write about modern technology, and the different ways in which it affects society. In “Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self” by Sherry Turkle, she writes about modern communication devices and the affects they have on people in modern society. In Neil Postman’s piece, “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, he is a critique of television, and shows the effects it is having on politics, news, religion, and education. Lastly, in the article by Jean Kilbourne, “Jesus Is a Brand of Jeans”, she goes on to explain that we can never escape advertising because it is central to our culture. These three articles all describe the effects of modern technology on society. Modern technology takes people away from the community, and takes time they spend engaging with other people away. “We are tethered to our “always-on/always-on-us” communication devices and the people we reach through them: people, web pages, voice-mail, games, artificial intelligences (non-player game characters, interactive online “bots”)” (Turkle 133). Some people may say that modern technology helps us stay “connected” with the world, and it is an easier way to get things done, but that is not true. For example, it is my friend’s birthday, so I will text him “happy birthday” via my cellphone. I do not go to his house and bring him a gift or cake, but rather use my machine. The norms and traditions we once hard are slowly fading away and essentially are becoming extinct. Modern technology is limiting human interactions, and distancing people from the community as a whole. People become intimate with these machines and ultimately compel them to speak a new state of mind (Turkle 23). Society no longer conforms to the norms of public and private space. “The