The Circle Essay Questions

As I read the book “The Circle” I began to have many questions and relate to some of the characters but one in particular stood out to me. That character was Mercer, I noticed that Mercer was almost an outsider to technology and not a big user social media at all just like myself. The I started to realize how much this fictional book actually relates to today’s society without anyone even realizing it. I did not pick up on how similar this book and today’s society were until I was about halfway through it and started questioning it. Some of my questions were, “how could people follow so blindly”, “Why would they ever want to become part of the circle”, “how did the circle gain so much power so quickly”. As I was asking these questions I was …show more content…
Well there are two main reasons and they are incentives and it makes life easier. Incentives are all over the place like “buy one Samsung galaxy, get one free”, “buy a HP laptop and get a free year of internet protection”. All of these incentives make it so easy to become a part of the technology group. The other way is technology honestly does make life so much easier but that may also not always be a good thing. It happened so quick people didn’t even notice it. Now we are so dependent on it we couldn’t live without it. Even speaking with schools and education, I haven’t had a single college class yet that hasn’t required me to be on some type of website. We use technology so much because it makes teaching, learning, reading and mainly everything so much easier. There ae actually robotic vacuums that make life so much easier, people won’t even have to vacuum their floors any more. This is not necessarily a bad thing but it shows how strongly we use and rely on technology today. Everything or at least most things are considered good but it has to be as long as they are in reason and that’s the same for technology. Technology is a good thing but it has to be in reason, too much of anything is never a good