How Will the Technology Reshape Our Future?
Alex Baur
Mrs. Sturgeon
English Period 3
7 March 2013
How Will Technology Shape Our Future? Technology is so integrated into our daily lives that without it life would be more difficult. The genre of science fiction is about technology and predicts what the future might hold. Also, science fiction warns humanity about the consequences of technology. In the stories we read the authors warned that violence is a consequence of technology, and causes humans to become lazy. However, they also proved technology can be used for learning. A common theme throughout science fiction is that technology causes violence. The article we read by Douglas Gentile, “The Effects of Video Games on Children: What Parents Need to Know” specifically addresses violent video games. It states that, “Playing violent games leads to increased physiological arousal, increased aggressive thoughts, increased aggressive feelings, and increased aggressive behaviors” (Gentile). Dr. Gentile proves that violent games increases aggression through observing children having played video games in their normal environment. Similarly, in “The Veldt” Peter and Wendy are violent, “Death thoughts. They were awfully young… Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with cap pistols” (Bradbury). This quote demonstrates that certain technology can effect young children and make them start to think about killing others. Without technology the children would not have toys to “kill” each other. In “Ender’s Game”, by Orson Scott Card, Ender does have the technology “toys” to kill others. At the end of the story Ender asks, “So tell me how many people were on that planet that I destroyed” (Card 29). This quote proves that with technology there can be mass destruction. Without technology Ender would not have been capable of destroying an entire planet full of innocent people. This makes technology highly responsible for
Mrs. Sturgeon
English Period 3
7 March 2013
How Will Technology Shape Our Future? Technology is so integrated into our daily lives that without it life would be more difficult. The genre of science fiction is about technology and predicts what the future might hold. Also, science fiction warns humanity about the consequences of technology. In the stories we read the authors warned that violence is a consequence of technology, and causes humans to become lazy. However, they also proved technology can be used for learning. A common theme throughout science fiction is that technology causes violence. The article we read by Douglas Gentile, “The Effects of Video Games on Children: What Parents Need to Know” specifically addresses violent video games. It states that, “Playing violent games leads to increased physiological arousal, increased aggressive thoughts, increased aggressive feelings, and increased aggressive behaviors” (Gentile). Dr. Gentile proves that violent games increases aggression through observing children having played video games in their normal environment. Similarly, in “The Veldt” Peter and Wendy are violent, “Death thoughts. They were awfully young… Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with cap pistols” (Bradbury). This quote demonstrates that certain technology can effect young children and make them start to think about killing others. Without technology the children would not have toys to “kill” each other. In “Ender’s Game”, by Orson Scott Card, Ender does have the technology “toys” to kill others. At the end of the story Ender asks, “So tell me how many people were on that planet that I destroyed” (Card 29). This quote proves that with technology there can be mass destruction. Without technology Ender would not have been capable of destroying an entire planet full of innocent people. This makes technology highly responsible for