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M.I.T professor, Sherry Turkle published an article “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” to the New York Times September 26th, 2015. In her article, she focuses on how technology has impacted our interactions with one another. The article also states how our emotions such as empathy are starting to deplenish. In part of the article she goes on to talk about how we can substitute technology with solitude.

“It is appallingly obvious that technology has exceeded our humanity. “, Albert Einstein had the epiphany that technology would began to remove some of the things that make us human, such as interpersonal social skills. It is safe to say that his words are becoming true to life. Like everything else there are pros and cons with our modern technology, with the brilliant minds of people like Steve Jobs (founder of Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook), Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter) we have been able to keep in contact with distant friends and family, express ourselves amongst people who share the same views, and keep up with mas media and our consistently changing society.

Technology has enabled new ways of measuring ourselves. “In a meme’s-eye view of the world, any idea – from religious belief or a political affiliation to a new style of jeans or a catchy tune – can be seen as a sort of independent agent loosed into the population, where it travels from mind to mind, burrowing into each, colonizing all as widely and ruthlessly as it can” (Wasik, 479). The evolution of Wasik’s very original kind of performance was all made due to our ability to discover the importance of individuality. With technology people alienate themselves from one another. Wasik’s experiment created a sense of community, transformed methods of communication, and allowed those participating a moment of freedom and to experience forms of

He was correct about how people can’t go without using their technological tools such as phones, computers, tablets and other types of technologies that distract people. In the fantasy text, the author conveys the same idea of how lonely and socially awkward

The author also illustrates the image of technology that how people are using without interacting each other. I agree with the author’s point that technology has a huge impact on our

The author, Richard Louv, write on how children now have become much too engaged in technology world and that they don't pay attention to nature enough. During this passage, tries to persuade his audience to reconnect with nature and reduce their use of technology and inform how technology has changed people. He uses his appeal to wistfulness, anecdotes, and rhetorical questions to achieve his purpose. In this passage, an appeal to wistful emotion is used.

This replaces communication with others, because it provides modern convenience, superficial pleasure and censorship to any controversial concepts. The image Ray Bradbury displayesd of how technology can alienate human beings will remain in thought with technological advances taking place in the

Another reason on how people who don’t use technology socialize with other people is when Montag finds the men at the train tracks and they talked to each other. “‘Listen,’ said Granger, taking his arm, and walking with him, holding aside the bushes to let him pass. ‘When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give in the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us…’” this shows that people who don't abuse and get distracted by technology socialize.

Imagine being in a room full of people, but no one talks or looks at each other. In fact, each person is plugged to a machine. This is how technology has affected society. Some people believe that technology has begun to manipulate our brains, while others claim it is taking intimacy from our relationships. The writers, Nicholas Carr and Sherry Tunkle, explain in their articles how internet use is affecting the way humans think and feel.

In fact, people are still able to bond using technology, it can help people to keep in touch, and it can be used to help people cherish what is important to them. As long as humans do not abuse it, electronics can simply be used as a new way to interact with one another. Unlike the outcomes of “The Veldt” and “The Pedestrian”, technology does not have to consume or ruin lives. People should encourage one another to use the modern items at their disposal without uninformed cynics claiming that they are living life

Too much screen use induces less communication between people and more time spent using technology. Technology used in our society in the same way. Sometimes people use television to forget about a hard time at work, others using phones in public, so they don’t have to interact with other people. “Little by little, technology has become an integral part of the way that people communicate with one another and has increasingly taken the place of face-to-face communication. Due to the rapid expansion of technology, many individuals fear that people may be too immersed in this digital world and not present enough in the real world,”.

In the poem of “Touchscreen,” by Marshall Davis Jones, he is explaining how our feelings towards technology are crucial and where we do not want to live in a world without internet or media. He describes how he lives in a society where everyone has limited interaction with each other and that he witnesses doing it also. He explains his frustration how we spend so much time establishing profiles so other people can recognize you. In the beginning of the poem, it introduces you to his world where it is all digital and in the end, it shows you that the speaker is angry about technology and how he wishes that they would design it more advanced enough to make them all humans again.

Before the invention of the computer and the internet, face to face communication was a normal everyday occurrence and loneliness and isolation was a problem that rarely was experienced or discussed. People moved about their day looking up speaking to each other as they passed by at the local store. Currently, technology is an essential part of many people’s lives, allowing them to use their devices and communicate with others in diverse ways and places. Technology has helped define society and established how one interacts with others daily by the way they communicate, learn, and think. There are both positive and negative effects of technology and the social individual.

Nowadays, technology devices become plays an important role in our daily lives, especially in adolescents’ categories. While there is a very clear argument for how the technology is effected on us and causing social isolation as we know, but in another way is also the argument that these technologies are helping us to become more social in our society. This is very probably because we have a good and perfect ability to communicate with each other. Despite long distances. We all know that the goal of technology is to make our lives easier and more efficient.

Technology affects almost every aspect in our life. Nowadays people use computers and smart phones in their personal social activities, business, education, medical care, politics and, most of all, in entertainment. Needless to say that technology makes our life easier and is the major reason that helps people develop, especially technically, but it certainly affects our life negatively from a social perspective leading people to feel lonely. You don’t have to be physically alone to feel lonely.