The average American spends half of their waking hours looking at a screen, equating to 20 years of their life. Technology has evolved how we spend our time, turning free time into screen time. Some argue that this evolution is for the best, technology is a massive asset for spreading knowledge and education. Others say we need to start limiting our use of this technology, for it becomes more distracting than productive. The solution is to use the vast powers technology has granted us for good, for knowledge, and then limit the amount of time we spend using our phones as entertainment devices.
The fact that we spend a quarter of our lives on these glowing LED screens, it might be important to know what they do to us. The first controversy is social media, where more and more of our interactions with other people have become digital. The concern with this, according to Documents 1 and 3, is that we lose our ability to be satisfied in our own company, and we are then instantly depressed when we are alone. What social media does is classifies being alone as if it was a problem that needs solving, instead of a moment to self-reflect in the peace and quiet. This time helps us consolidate our thoughts in a break from our often-demanding lives. While creating this perception in society that happiness is being connected all the time, technology also becomes a great distraction from productivity. According to Document 2, technology is a “Huge time sink, maybe the biggest ever.” Remember those 20 years spent looking down at a screen, chances are that is wasted time playing video games, texting our friends, or watching YouTube videos. Technology is merely used as a way to fill time, instead of being used as the great productivity tool it was invented to be, and is vastly capable of. Today’s technology, computers and smartphones, were invented to increase productivity and efficiency in our daily lives. Our technology helps us with everyday tasks, such as driving directions, productivity tools (like Office or Photoshop), and the answer to every question you could ever ask. According to Document 6, this “Pocket University” we know of as the internet allows “Our discussions can get past disputes over facts so that we can talk about the real issues, what we make of the facts.” What we make of the facts allows us to change how we …show more content…
On one hand it has the power to educate and empower swaths of population with productivity tools and knowledge, while it also has the power to draw us into isolation, unable to live without grabbing that screen and sending a text message. We should not put an all-out ban on technology, but instead simply limit how much time people spend on it for non-educational purposes. According to Document 5, technology is capable of these amazing things, yet most of us use it for pointless things, such as snapchats and text messages. The solution to this problem is to limit our “screen time”, while reclassifying “screen time” as anything that is non-educational. Limit the number of hours spent watching TV and posting on Instagram, while encouraging the use of tech for education and information, with things like Google Docs, Wikipedia, and others. This way, we will not only enrich our knowledge and capabilities of the world around us, but spend less time wasted on video games and social
The fact that we spend a quarter of our lives on these glowing LED screens, it might be important to know what they do to us. The first controversy is social media, where more and more of our interactions with other people have become digital. The concern with this, according to Documents 1 and 3, is that we lose our ability to be satisfied in our own company, and we are then instantly depressed when we are alone. What social media does is classifies being alone as if it was a problem that needs solving, instead of a moment to self-reflect in the peace and quiet. This time helps us consolidate our thoughts in a break from our often-demanding lives. While creating this perception in society that happiness is being connected all the time, technology also becomes a great distraction from productivity. According to Document 2, technology is a “Huge time sink, maybe the biggest ever.” Remember those 20 years spent looking down at a screen, chances are that is wasted time playing video games, texting our friends, or watching YouTube videos. Technology is merely used as a way to fill time, instead of being used as the great productivity tool it was invented to be, and is vastly capable of. Today’s technology, computers and smartphones, were invented to increase productivity and efficiency in our daily lives. Our technology helps us with everyday tasks, such as driving directions, productivity tools (like Office or Photoshop), and the answer to every question you could ever ask. According to Document 6, this “Pocket University” we know of as the internet allows “Our discussions can get past disputes over facts so that we can talk about the real issues, what we make of the facts.” What we make of the facts allows us to change how we …show more content…
On one hand it has the power to educate and empower swaths of population with productivity tools and knowledge, while it also has the power to draw us into isolation, unable to live without grabbing that screen and sending a text message. We should not put an all-out ban on technology, but instead simply limit how much time people spend on it for non-educational purposes. According to Document 5, technology is capable of these amazing things, yet most of us use it for pointless things, such as snapchats and text messages. The solution to this problem is to limit our “screen time”, while reclassifying “screen time” as anything that is non-educational. Limit the number of hours spent watching TV and posting on Instagram, while encouraging the use of tech for education and information, with things like Google Docs, Wikipedia, and others. This way, we will not only enrich our knowledge and capabilities of the world around us, but spend less time wasted on video games and social