The Technology Revolution
Today, technology is omnipresent, from Apple, today’s leading technology giant, to our Local Blue Ridge Mac. In Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, civilization becomes tedious, and the citizens depend excessively on technology . The citizens especially rely abundantly on Soma, a pleasure drug, which becomes addictive and is found to slowly kill them. Additionally Soma is also a powerful influence of technology and science on society. The discussions, Brave New World, The Circle, 1984, articles, and the judgement of other peers, has influenced me to acknowledge that the advancement of technology may bear a tragic ending. The advancement of technology changes our maturity, our attention span, and simply our daily lives.
Evgeny Morozov, now a senior editor at The New Republic, questions If “Smart [is] Making Us Dumb?” (Morozov). Instead of succumbing to technology, we should understand how to comprehend with the technology that “enhances our decision-making” rather than “degrading our dignity” (Morozov). For example Brave New World citizens rely on “feelies” which not only stimulates their eyes, but also brainwashes individuals in the sexual, materialistic culture (Huxley, 167). Furthermore in Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the Controller and overseer of the World …show more content…
For example Mumford explains that the mechanical clock helped us bring the development of science, though it also “disassociated time from human events” (qtd. in Carr). Moreover, the mechanical clock established a set of time mentally deciding “when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise” eventually ignoring our senses and obeying the clock (Carr). Although this may not be a noticeable issue in our daily lives, technology regularly changes without us even
Today, technology is omnipresent, from Apple, today’s leading technology giant, to our Local Blue Ridge Mac. In Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, civilization becomes tedious, and the citizens depend excessively on technology . The citizens especially rely abundantly on Soma, a pleasure drug, which becomes addictive and is found to slowly kill them. Additionally Soma is also a powerful influence of technology and science on society. The discussions, Brave New World, The Circle, 1984, articles, and the judgement of other peers, has influenced me to acknowledge that the advancement of technology may bear a tragic ending. The advancement of technology changes our maturity, our attention span, and simply our daily lives.
Evgeny Morozov, now a senior editor at The New Republic, questions If “Smart [is] Making Us Dumb?” (Morozov). Instead of succumbing to technology, we should understand how to comprehend with the technology that “enhances our decision-making” rather than “degrading our dignity” (Morozov). For example Brave New World citizens rely on “feelies” which not only stimulates their eyes, but also brainwashes individuals in the sexual, materialistic culture (Huxley, 167). Furthermore in Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the Controller and overseer of the World …show more content…
For example Mumford explains that the mechanical clock helped us bring the development of science, though it also “disassociated time from human events” (qtd. in Carr). Moreover, the mechanical clock established a set of time mentally deciding “when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise” eventually ignoring our senses and obeying the clock (Carr). Although this may not be a noticeable issue in our daily lives, technology regularly changes without us even