Modern day conveniences are designed to help people become more productive, but instead they have increased the demand of everyday life. Society’s point of view has shifted from designing products to help lives become easier, to designing time saving convenience products. People have become more productive, but these increases in productivity are not on par with increases in wages. Lives have become so overrun with modern conveniences, it is hard to imagine life without them. Instead of helping these everyday technologies have set the bar too high, and it is causing everyday life to become too stressful.
A young man was sitting with his friends when one of them asked “Has anyone seen that new movie about the solider dog”. The young man pulls out his smart phone, oh here it is “Max”. This is an all too familiar scene. Smart phones are so common there is even a phobia of being without a cell phone called nomophobia an abbreviation for no more phone phobia. Smartphones have taken over lives. They transformed from convenient ways of carrying a portable phone; into a device capable of text messages, social networking, games, maps, an alarm clock, a calendar, email, and even flashlights. If someone wants to talk to a friend he does not just call on the phone. The person has many …show more content…
These wonderfully convenient pieces of metal and engine are the backbone of American lives. Automobiles enable people to arrive in places that are miles away in just a few minutes instead of hours. They have enabled the average consumer to buy goods manufactured hundreds or even thousands of miles away; but, these conveniences have also put a strain on society. There are over 4 million miles of roads in America (). Causing $X to maintain and service these roads. Americans spend over $X a year buying and maintaining automobiles. This leads to the notion that this modern convenience is less of a convenience and more of a demand or
A young man was sitting with his friends when one of them asked “Has anyone seen that new movie about the solider dog”. The young man pulls out his smart phone, oh here it is “Max”. This is an all too familiar scene. Smart phones are so common there is even a phobia of being without a cell phone called nomophobia an abbreviation for no more phone phobia. Smartphones have taken over lives. They transformed from convenient ways of carrying a portable phone; into a device capable of text messages, social networking, games, maps, an alarm clock, a calendar, email, and even flashlights. If someone wants to talk to a friend he does not just call on the phone. The person has many …show more content…
These wonderfully convenient pieces of metal and engine are the backbone of American lives. Automobiles enable people to arrive in places that are miles away in just a few minutes instead of hours. They have enabled the average consumer to buy goods manufactured hundreds or even thousands of miles away; but, these conveniences have also put a strain on society. There are over 4 million miles of roads in America (). Causing $X to maintain and service these roads. Americans spend over $X a year buying and maintaining automobiles. This leads to the notion that this modern convenience is less of a convenience and more of a demand or