It lets them know the latest news and events that are going around in the world. Putting this all together this gives one the illusion that technology is stronger than religious faith because a person cannot imagine their life without these technological devices, just like how a religious person cannot imagine not having a god. The fact that people simply cannot let go of technology is ruining their social life. With people being exposed to such tremendous technology they cannot imagine life without it. IPods, iPhones, iPads, cell phones, laptops, Blackberrys, computers, and numerous devices; items that we cannot part with.
One problem the internet caused stated in the documentary is, it is very hard for parents and authorities to regulate what kids do on the computer. Since the internet is so easy to access via new technologies, authoritative figures just cannot be present with the kids all the time. Another issue the internet has caused reported by the documentary is by it being so addictive, it has taken time away from studying, school work and activities such as reading. This is a problem because education is almost a must in today’s society. However, the documentary fails to acknowledge how the internet has helped kids by providing ways to find answers and acquire research and knowledge.
Moreover, due to the change of the environments is constantly, creatures forced to changed constantly as well; finally, the ability of adaption causes creatures evolved. As a consequence, nature would select the species that qualified. On the other hand, the philosophy of “Natural Selection” is the basement of many philosophies; for instance, the Social Darwinism. The philosophy of social Darwinism explains the rules of the human society, which is for those people who could adapt the environment, they would be selected and become success. Inversely, for those people who could not adapt the environment, they would be obsoleted and loss the competition.
shows, vitiates the purity and innocence of young minds. On the internet, children under the age of 18 can enter adult websites; such as Xtube, Fakku, and Redtube. Sure they ask for the age when you first enter the site, but lying is always possible. Though many people argue that it’s up to the kids to decide what they want to watch the rated contents or not, but if there is no internet then the kids wouldn’t even be watching it in the first place. Maybe adult pornography sites don’t apply to every single kid, but how about the violent, gory, and explicit video games that elementary school children play?
From the first automobile to the first cell phone, technology is a never ending mechanical and scientific evolution that is designed to benefit us and make life easier. Every day we rely on technology to help us achieve our goals quickly and efficiently while using the least amount of energy we possibly can. There is an extremely large dependence on these technologies and their functionality. This dependence and reliance on the constantly growing technological advancements around us is argued by some as harmful and dangerous, ultimately becoming damaging. In The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, the idea of technology and its harmful long term effects is brought up on many occasions.
Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.
They can choose to engage in deep thinking activities. Too much of anything is not good for any one, and this also applies to internet usage. Scholars say that the price of technology is alienation and that this indicates that the more distracted an individual becomes, the less able they are to experience human emotions such as empathy and compassion. It is still too early to tell what the results of the future effects of the internet, but as Carr states, “An intellectual technology exerts its influence by shifting the emphasis of our thought. As the brain adapts to the new medium, the most profound changes will take place over several generations’
Think the Internet and one of the greatest inventions of all time: Google. In January of 1996, two gentlemen, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, revolutionized the way we, the human race, think and respond to everyday life problems by incorporating a search engine for basically anything into our lives. However, some people, Nicholas Carr for example, disagree with the hopes and dreams of Google. Carr, the author of Is Google Making Us Stupid, argues that the American based company is negatively influencing the thought process of the human population. He states that he is afraid that people will start to be controlled by an artificial intelligence, which would be created by Google.
Computers, cellphones, and video games are also very distracting kids stay up all night on social websites on their phone or laptop and talk to friends or post pictures….then they wait, wait for other kids to comment or like it and that keeps them up all night long! Then there are video games kids will play them all day long then at night they’ll push aside things like homework and chores to continue their game but…what if they don’t finish by bedtime? Well then kids stay up extra hours just to finish a game or even just a level just so they can say they finished to all their friends mostly everything is a competition to kids now a
CHILDREN’S PASTIME 2011 AND 1975 Kathleen Beaty Children pastime has a lot more electric gadgets then children of the past. Children’s pastime from the seventies had more children doing outdoor activities as children today are more inside playing on their electric gadgets. Children spend more time indoors then they did in the past. Parents today allow children to spend many hours playing on computers, playing wii, play station, or watching cable television or watching movies. Even playing on mp3’s, cell phones which they either text friends or listen to music.