Gary Turk's Spoken Word Video Look Up

In this day of age, technology impacts the world within every angle. However, within the aspect of technology is one major influential tool, social media. Besides the fact that social media is a dominant, and powerful, source of the twenty-first century, it has also become known to be unfulfilling in areas where a human being must feel assured. Without a doubt, social media has made people illusional, unaware, and capable of passing it on to future generations. About 1.96 billion people in the world use social media to be connected, yet the majority still feel alone. To keep on living under this false consciousness could only lead to desolation. As Gary Turk explained, in his Spoken Word Video “Look Up,” that all of this technology that many people obtained is just an illusion. He continued on to say that “I have 422 friends, yet I’m lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none
Like Sherry warned, “we’re letting it take us to places that we don’t want to go.” For an instance, in the short film Lost Memories by Francois Ferracci, is based in the year 2020 “a beautiful couple, a city over-saturated by holograms and digital stream.” They began taking a quick picture and finally, the boyfriend was anxious to save it on his hologram device and upload it through social media. While the girlfriend observed, she took out her polaroid to take a picture of him. As he stood there in shock and confused over such a physical photograph, she hands it to him and walks away. At that very moment, the entire city’s digital data had been wiped away through an electromagnetic storm and the only physical memory that the man had was that one photograph. This meaningful story depicts the way the current mentality on social media is being passed on to the youth. Because of this, there is only one certainty for the future to come and that is, losing