There are many different views for what it means to be a modern person in today's society. The modern view has definitely changed throughout the years due to technology advancements and social changes. Being a modern person is how they fit in today's society they are up to date with technology, fashion, vocabulary, what's trending and look for perfection in everything they do. We read and looked at many different examples in class about the modern society and how it will eventually turn out in the end (usually bad). There are three pieces of evidence that will help on this argument. The Great Gatsby, Science essay ¨The coming of man and Machine¨ by Ray Kurzwell and The Ends of the World as we Know Them by Jared Diamond. These are three pieces of evidence that will help with the argument. The modern person/people search for only …show more content…
People want everything to be perfect and they expect everything to workout and have the perfect life. No matter what time in history this applies to every single civilization extinct or present. The Great Gatsby is a great start to this paper. In the Great Gatsby they are at the time wear its post war and people are in search for a perfect life and move on. So in the book the author writes about a man with money who throws magnificent parties and times are great. In that time period. He is in pursue for a perfect life just like everybody else. The only thing that is holding him from that is a woman named Daisy but nothing is perfect ever. In the end he