IPhones and iPods were invented to keep us constantly connected, however they are consuming our lives and isolating us from our surroundings. Both articles, "iPod's Missed Manners" by George F. Will and "Society Is Dead: We Have Retreated into the iWorld" by Andrew Sullivan, discuss the negative impact of iPods and electronic devices have on us as individuals in particular and as a society in general. Both authors, Will and Sullivan, imply that our electronics are controlling our lives and we are becoming addicted to them. Everywhere you go now you see people with, “little white wires hanging down from their ears, or tucked into pockets, purses or jackets,” (Sullivan).
Generally, listening to music helps elevate our moods, calms us down, improve our memory and energizes us. However with the invention of IPods, these portable entertainments technologies that makes music easily accessible has begun to consume us and isolate us from the outside world. The authors, Will and Sullivan, have a different approach in getting their message across while describing how addiction to technology is taking away human interactions. …show more content…
Will uses ethos to convince his audience of his argument about the negative impact iPods had on our society. He describes the problem with technology is causing people to become more and more thoughtless, isolated and uninvolved with their surroundings, “And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable "limitless self-absorption," which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and antisocial. Hence manners are becoming unmannerly in this "age of lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence."(Will). He uses sources and references from other writers to supports his point of view. But his emphasis was not mainly on the title of his article, which made it hard for his audience to stay
Generally, listening to music helps elevate our moods, calms us down, improve our memory and energizes us. However with the invention of IPods, these portable entertainments technologies that makes music easily accessible has begun to consume us and isolate us from the outside world. The authors, Will and Sullivan, have a different approach in getting their message across while describing how addiction to technology is taking away human interactions. …show more content…
Will uses ethos to convince his audience of his argument about the negative impact iPods had on our society. He describes the problem with technology is causing people to become more and more thoughtless, isolated and uninvolved with their surroundings, “And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable "limitless self-absorption," which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and antisocial. Hence manners are becoming unmannerly in this "age of lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence."(Will). He uses sources and references from other writers to supports his point of view. But his emphasis was not mainly on the title of his article, which made it hard for his audience to stay