The Dial

just expect new technology to come out every year or so but back in the 1960s and 1970s every advancement like the rotary was a big deal. Not too long after the rotary came out came the push-button phone which was the first phone that had a keypad to dial numbers. The keypad on the phones made a big hit and it still used today. After the push-button phone the answering machine was invented and although updated since the first model, it is still used today. Then finally came out the portable…

because I tend to be on my phone until I feel tired enough. Next, I usually set my alarm for the next morning and then go to bed. Next in the article, the mother talks about a safe called the Ksafe that you can put your smartphone into and turn a dial to set it to the amount of time you want to be cellphone free. In terms of technological advancements, the fact that some people may feel the need to put their phones into safes in order to not use them just reiterates how addicted we as a society…

14, 2017 According to Bogost, the technology of telephone evolves over the recent decades. In terms of the design of telephony devices, the Western Electric model 500 in the 20th century prevails with people’s operation on agronomic handsets and dials. That experience brings along a sensation of intimacy between two people over the phone despite long distance, as well as limits noise pollution and increases privacy. However, the presence of mobile phones, as alternative of landline telephones,…

People use their cell phone everywhere, during crossing the street, and in the car when they are driving without thinking of the risk that they are involved, when they use their cell phone. The problem is that people when they use their cell phone, they have background about how it is dangerous situation to use it during driving. But they always make reasons to use it, or they say it is only one minute. There is no risk to use the cell phone. In fact that Cell phone use while driving one of the…

It is relatively obvious for human to associate technology in terms of automation, machinery, impersonal and such, rather than to communication and conversation, prior to the intervention of communicative technologies. The nineteenth century had witnessed and experienced the rapid evolution of the large quantity of electronic devices for communication, for instance, telephone, radio, television, and internet. Among all, telephone technology emerged as ‘an integral part of’ everyday lives for…

In “No Need to Call”, Sherry Turkle formulates various arguments regarding technology. Technology gives people the opportunity to do what they wish whether they are emails, instant messages, texts, or calls. Emails, instant messages, and texts are similar for the reason that you are allowed to respond whenever you want, whether it is ten minutes later or a day later. Technology has helped people communicate around the world in an easier way. Anyone can simply go onto their mobile phone or laptop…

Nowadays, within the continuing development of technology, many High-Tech things have been invented and created. The High-tech products make people’s life easier and interesting, we couldn’t image the life without those things. Like the Smart phone, you don’t have to write a letter and sent it to the post office, just by type in the words and click the “send” bottom to the person who you want to be sent to the message. There are a lot of good things that we can talk about the smart-phone has…

One’s Marriage, The Eye and Faith When texting someone, emojis are straightforward, with a laughing emoji symbolizing laughter and clocks representing a clock. On a heart rate monitor, a flashing heart would symbolize the human heart beating in real time. In short stories however, symbols are more ambiguous. The symbols need more time to be identified and explained to those who do not see them. The symbols in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and…

Could a person's privacy be violated during sleep? When people want to share videos or pictures with another people, it takes times because they save it in their phone and they may be busy at this moment, so they send it later. A lot of people do not expect that they will express themselves, live in the moment and learn about the world’s events. “Picaboo lets you and your girlfriends send photos for peeks and not keeps!” this sentence contributed to had service that people did not expect it to…

Whenever we want to talk to someone we text them, even if you want to wish them a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year we use our phones. By using technology our way of communication has changed. Instead of talking face to face we use our phones and by that it’s causing us problems. A nonfiction passage by Scott Peck “Life is Difficult” and Sherry Turkle’s “Flight From Conversation” both suggest how life is full of problems and technology diverts our attention from solving these problems and thus…