There are many issues when it comes to the new generation leaving their technology. In “Thoreau Still Beckons, If I Can Take My Laptop,” Cynthia G. La Ferle argues that it would be difficult for her to leave her life and life as Thoreau did. The 21st century is the era of new breakthroughs in technology. In today’s society of new technology emerging everyday making our lives simpler, it is harder to give up. According to Cynthia G. La Ferle from“Thoreau Still Beckons, if I Can Take My Laptop,” states, “The “comforts of life” in the 1840s were not exactly cushy by today’s standards. His concept of luxury might have been taking tea in his mother’s bone china saucers. So what had he given up to commune with nature?” (La Ferle 389) Since the
