For many years, technology had been used in our everyday lives. From the first discovery of fire over 1 to 2 million years ago, to the newest and most advanced technology like drones and self-driving cars. Technology has always been part of us. Such technology helps us solve problems that a single mind can't solve alone. I can't really tell whether technology made my life better or worse. When making important things, technology has been a big distraction. It consumes my time, it consumes the knowledge I have. It limits me from thinking. Most of my questions are being answered by Google. It's the way how I use technology. Technology has been conquering my system, my life.
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For the last century or so, our society has been about the development of technology. From the development of weapons during the world war one and two, to the newly discovered medicines. During the world war one and two, there are about 100 million to 120 million casualties. The greed of people plus the advancement of arms can cause a mass distraction for us. During the past years of my life, technology has been both beneficial and distractive, but mostly distractive. The technology used me by going choosing the easier way of life. I'm trapped in the cave made by technology. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury he alluded The Allegory of the cave from the Republic book of Plato. "Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave." This line explains that the knowledge books can give both Montag and Mildred the characters in thefrom novel out of the cave. I'm the same as the people Plato's Allegory of the cave. I'm in the cave in right now: in the darkness watching over technology. In today's society we can't deny that are shrinking in size, books are unused every so often; technology is expanding, developing and advancing. We are advancing through technology however downgrading in the use of our own mind. I believe that my life is faster in a way that I can search up definitions, information, and history through the use of the internet, the information …show more content…
It consumes my time, it consumes the knowledge I have. It limits me from thinking. Most of my questions are being answered by Google. It's the way how I use technology. Technology has been conquering my system, my life. It's a form of distraction because it's keeping me away from using my brain or thinking. We could not deny that technology has greater beneficial effects that having bad effects. However, these bad effects are severe. It can cause our society to be non-thinking society just like the society of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It's good that our society is advancing but are we really advancing when our minds our downgrading. From gaining knowledge through books to gaining answers from Google. Our society started from philosophers and now a mass of information from Google. From Isaac Newton, John Locke, Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Rene Descartes to Larry Page and Sergey Bin the founders of the most famous search engine in the world Google. From great philosophers to great technological innovators. Now I can answer Nicholas Carr 2008 Atlantic cover story "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" I could not deny that I idolize the founders of Google because of their revolutionary achievement but there site Google made me dumber. The technology used me to go in the easier way of life. To stay in my comfort zone. To be conquered by technology. I am one of the people in Plato's Allegory of the cave. I am trapped in the darkness of my comfort
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (2013), the protagonist …show more content…
For the last century or so, our society has been about the development of technology. From the development of weapons during the world war one and two, to the newly discovered medicines. During the world war one and two, there are about 100 million to 120 million casualties. The greed of people plus the advancement of arms can cause a mass distraction for us. During the past years of my life, technology has been both beneficial and distractive, but mostly distractive. The technology used me by going choosing the easier way of life. I'm trapped in the cave made by technology. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury he alluded The Allegory of the cave from the Republic book of Plato. "Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave." This line explains that the knowledge books can give both Montag and Mildred the characters in thefrom novel out of the cave. I'm the same as the people Plato's Allegory of the cave. I'm in the cave in right now: in the darkness watching over technology. In today's society we can't deny that are shrinking in size, books are unused every so often; technology is expanding, developing and advancing. We are advancing through technology however downgrading in the use of our own mind. I believe that my life is faster in a way that I can search up definitions, information, and history through the use of the internet, the information …show more content…
It consumes my time, it consumes the knowledge I have. It limits me from thinking. Most of my questions are being answered by Google. It's the way how I use technology. Technology has been conquering my system, my life. It's a form of distraction because it's keeping me away from using my brain or thinking. We could not deny that technology has greater beneficial effects that having bad effects. However, these bad effects are severe. It can cause our society to be non-thinking society just like the society of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It's good that our society is advancing but are we really advancing when our minds our downgrading. From gaining knowledge through books to gaining answers from Google. Our society started from philosophers and now a mass of information from Google. From Isaac Newton, John Locke, Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Rene Descartes to Larry Page and Sergey Bin the founders of the most famous search engine in the world Google. From great philosophers to great technological innovators. Now I can answer Nicholas Carr 2008 Atlantic cover story "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" I could not deny that I idolize the founders of Google because of their revolutionary achievement but there site Google made me dumber. The technology used me to go in the easier way of life. To stay in my comfort zone. To be conquered by technology. I am one of the people in Plato's Allegory of the cave. I am trapped in the darkness of my comfort