Digital Revolution

Classification Essay The digital revolution has been impacting the societies and communities we live in for a while. The digital revolution has impacted many aspects of the world we live in such as health care, communication, robots, and security. One large aspect in which the digital revolution has effected has been human relationships. The digital revolution will continue to negatively effect relationships among humans in the areas of school, work, and home. In the current era, almost everyone uses technology to interact with one another in some form or another. Technology has made both a negative and positive impact on our society, although it has made a mainly negative impact on the relationships among people. In school teachers are turning towards technology to aid their teaching. This can be beneficial for the information getting across to the students, but it changes the relationship from teacher student to technology student. This fact has effected people emotionally in a negative way. “As fact as we are connecting digitally, so fast are we drifting apart emotionally” (Sharma). Not only does technology effect the students in schools, it also effect our employees at work. The business men and women in large corporations have decreased their amount of direct communication greatly. With the use of e-mail, phone calls, faxes, google docs, google calendar employees need virtually no face to face communications. The causes misunderstandings between different parties as well as a dependence on technology. When the technology fails to work, they feel stranded because they have to switch back to face to face communication. Overall a loss of human contact and experience with face to face communication cause the population to digress. Technology also effect the home life of the current population. The youth of this era as well as the adults, are more dependent on technology to keep them entertained while at home. Whether it be watching youtube videos until midnight or sitting on Facebook in your room until your eyes are sore, the human contact has decreased.
Children are spending more time texting their friends, playing x box, or sitting on social networking sites and leaving less time to spend with their friends playing outside or their parents. This results in children lacking the important communication and social skills that it takes to thrive in both school and work (Conley 55). All in all the the digital revolution has a negative impact on the communication and relationships between humans. Students, teachers, employees, and families are all being effected by the digital revolution. Whether it be learning information in school online, making business transactions through technology, or being distracted and occupied at home by computers, humans are loosing their ability to communicate and interact effectively. If this continues we are headed towards a future with minimal human communication and weakened human relationships.