' Our Cell Phones, Our Selves, By Paul Golderger
The Hidden Dangers of Cell Phones
Within the essays, “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves,” by Christine Rosen and “Disconnected Urbaism” by Paul Golderger, both authors expressed concern about the usages and the path our society was heading down. Furthermore, it is remarkable that within 30 years the cell phone went from a large mobile phone called the brick to what it is today. Additionally, if we are not careful with the cell phone and our dependence on it, our social communication skills will be permanently damaged. Finally, Cell phones have inhibited the way we interact with each other and the way we communicate.
The Mobile Phone Spreads
Surrounding the first portion of, “Our Cell Phone, Our Selves”, the author wrote about the early 1980s and …show more content…
Yet again, she is right on point. I feel that this merges into her chapter Absent without leave. People get so focused on this cell phone screen that they are like a zombie, not mentally just physically, they are lost in a cell phone screen. Rosen, (2001) Within the essay, Disconnected Urbanism, Paul Goldberger adds to this idea, he states “there in body but not it any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if you’re holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha”. Goldeberger, (2003) I feel that this line pulled from his essay wraps up a message same as Christine Rosen. This issue has only excessively become worse since technology is much more advanced from when these essays were written. People all over the world are simply living in a digital world and the younger generation is losing valuable personal communication …show more content…
Furthermore, I think the main point was that the cell phone has changed our sense of time and space, he used the idea of letter sending or getting a fax message takes a few minutes rather than instantly like a cell phone. As a result of this people now have a hard time waiting, as if the reality of time has shifted. Within my own life I get upset when an email or text takes longer than a few minutes to go through. Additionally, I can’t imagine being deployed without Skype or the internet. To send a letter home would just be too much. I can relate that back to just a few years back when I couldn’t Skype or use a cell phone and had to call on a pay phone. Additionally, he refers to space in a sense of our area code, I’m from a 616, that’s west coast Michigan and my brother is a 216 from Akron, Ohio, I always knew when he called he was calling from Akron but today with a cell phone he could be calling from Alaska or a crossed the ocean. Goldeberger,
Within the essays, “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves,” by Christine Rosen and “Disconnected Urbaism” by Paul Golderger, both authors expressed concern about the usages and the path our society was heading down. Furthermore, it is remarkable that within 30 years the cell phone went from a large mobile phone called the brick to what it is today. Additionally, if we are not careful with the cell phone and our dependence on it, our social communication skills will be permanently damaged. Finally, Cell phones have inhibited the way we interact with each other and the way we communicate.
The Mobile Phone Spreads
Surrounding the first portion of, “Our Cell Phone, Our Selves”, the author wrote about the early 1980s and …show more content…
Yet again, she is right on point. I feel that this merges into her chapter Absent without leave. People get so focused on this cell phone screen that they are like a zombie, not mentally just physically, they are lost in a cell phone screen. Rosen, (2001) Within the essay, Disconnected Urbanism, Paul Goldberger adds to this idea, he states “there in body but not it any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if you’re holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha”. Goldeberger, (2003) I feel that this line pulled from his essay wraps up a message same as Christine Rosen. This issue has only excessively become worse since technology is much more advanced from when these essays were written. People all over the world are simply living in a digital world and the younger generation is losing valuable personal communication …show more content…
Furthermore, I think the main point was that the cell phone has changed our sense of time and space, he used the idea of letter sending or getting a fax message takes a few minutes rather than instantly like a cell phone. As a result of this people now have a hard time waiting, as if the reality of time has shifted. Within my own life I get upset when an email or text takes longer than a few minutes to go through. Additionally, I can’t imagine being deployed without Skype or the internet. To send a letter home would just be too much. I can relate that back to just a few years back when I couldn’t Skype or use a cell phone and had to call on a pay phone. Additionally, he refers to space in a sense of our area code, I’m from a 616, that’s west coast Michigan and my brother is a 216 from Akron, Ohio, I always knew when he called he was calling from Akron but today with a cell phone he could be calling from Alaska or a crossed the ocean. Goldeberger,