Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Research Paper

Cynthia Bibina
ENG 101-039
Sarah Stephens
11 April 2017
Essay #3
Sacrifice Me For The Comfort Fifty thousand years ago, a few amount of Homo sapiens left their area of origin from Africa to the occidental world. These men exploited the fauna and flora in an ever more efficient way. They have undoubtedly also set new forms of social organization. With the sedentary lifestyle and under pressure of natural selection, they tried to make life easier and more comfortable. The growing crops and raising livestock of plants and animals, and then the advent of hierarchized societies have accelerated innovation further, leading to the hyper-technological world of today. Technology is increasingly present in our daily lives: internet, smart phones, and
tablets, also in transport, aeronautics or the environment. These technical advances give much comfort, but what is the place that to technology should be given in society? Should we see it only from its useful point of view or its hold on us should also be measured? Thus technological progress seems to be inevitable for the development of humanity. Seeing that technology is the symbol of the genius of man it would be necessary to evolve with and use all technical advantages it can bring, not without limiting the damages it could have on the physiological, emotional and intellectual capacities of humans. Technology as the reflection of skill, know-how or a competence earned makes human nature differ and surpass the animal's one by the ability to think, make and create.
The man is not only the Homo sapiens, the thinker but also the Homo Faber, the maker. His intelligence helps him to make supplies to better his conditions of life and develop his competencies not without transmitting his technicity to future generations. The word tool from the Latin, ustensillis, meaning useful. The individual devices result from the transformation of the raw materials. The objective is to create physical and intellectual goods useful to men. The animal uses the parts of its body like the claws for the feline, to attack and kill its prey. For the animal, the use of the tool derives from the instinct, and solely for the survival of the species. In another hand, for the man, the use of instruments is much more complex. The technological process begins by an afterthought, then a methodical work. Used transformed natural or human created materials allow producing precisely objects. Human productions are not only about survival but also about improvement. That is why there is a social collaboration between individuals to transmit acquired knowledge and to perfect it. For humans, the technology allows them to open up to new dimensions. In making all these tools man seeks to affirm his existence and power. Through history, we have gone from the simple technique that is based on an empirical
knowledge of the technology that is based indeed on scientific knowledge. As Sherry Turkle argued that, "the invention of the written language brought about a radical shift in how we process, organize, store, and transmit representations of the world." Technology often bring an added value to the life. Knowledge is no longer an end in itself nor knowledge to know but rather knowledge for power. By refusing to submit to a harsh non-domestic nature, which may lead to premature death, illnesses, and so on, man seeks to control it by producing instruments that can tame it. Therefore technology, in its continuous search for improvement which is the technology accelerates the satisfaction of human needs. Technology has many advantages. It simplifies everyday life. By taking the example of the washing machine, it is hard to imagine how people used to wash clothes before it has been invented. Almost all popular technologies ranging from the phone to the car have the ultimate goal of reducing human effort. Another advantage is communication and mobility. Modern communication systems have reduced the time of connection between two people. Today, communication between different countries is almost instantaneous. It helps enormously the development of a real global world. Travel time is also considerably reduced with which World Tourism has grown accordingly. Technology has also increased productivity using fewer resources and for more people. In the field of education, it is rather surprising to learn that several techno-pedagogues say that if it is possible to do without technology, it is better not to think about it. In principle, the technology should be used to bring added value. That is to say; the targeted learning will be enriched by the bias of the technology. Writing on the computer has technical advantages such as speed, flexibility, cleanliness, paper economy, spell checked, but pedagogically there are not necessarily advantages because writing is to write. Considering text messaging Timothy Storbierski stated that, " texting has caused our society to become more interconnected than it has ever been in history, while distancing us from each other at the same time." By using for example cell phones, we benefit from its speed to connect and reach people. Yet when it comes to communicating about aspects more emotional, this instrument does not seem ideal. So it is better to use tecnhology than for its practical dimension, but as it begins to affect our personality, it would be better to reduce or crop its use. Man uses his brain to conceive ideas. So then, why should use technology in education? Because it is necessary to learn how to live in a world more and more technological, numerical practically virtual. Because this world is saturated by technology, what would the place of humanity be?
Transhumanists would like to obtain from technology capacities that humans do not currently have, without making an effort to build, physically or spiritually, to develop them from the interior. To assert that there would be a higher stage of the human being, accessible only by technology, is at the bottom, to consider that the natural person is disabled. Sherry turkle added that, "Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities." So innovations are almost always presented from the reassuring angle of a handicap to be compensated. A desire of aid justifies these inventions, but at a long run, it tends to think that humans are biologically deficient. They must be increased. This theory is a rather delicate notion. It has begun since the appearance of man and is part of continuity. For example, the bottle is an increased breast; the hammer is a substitute hand, the mouse as the prosthesis of an index that points. This generation of innovation is external tools that can be grasped and used. They do not change our relationship to the world. They just allow us to act more efficiently. Currently the relationship with technology is inverse. The machine is no longer external. The man is inside it. It has become the world in which it lives, thinks, seduces, plays, exchanges. We are faced with a break that upsets the relationship with others, the world and ourselves. The
relationship with others is so depressing that people are falling back on their gadgets, which further intensifies the feeling of sadness. The switchover took place from the appearance of the mobile phone and networks. Physically, technology is getting closer, invading our bodies. A phone in the pocket, earphones on the ears, smart glasses on the eyes. The tendency is to be closer and closer, more invasive. The freedom to use or repel technology is non-existent today. It is, of course, possible not to connect to the Internet or not to have a laptop, but it becomes tough because almost all the daily social reports go through the mediation of the laptop. How to build without the social networks? How to learn without the web? We are evolving within a vast labyrinth of flexible screens, stacked interfaces, interconnected systems, which is so complicated that it is almost difficult to get out. Unfortunately, we are also outsourcing the brain! We delegate all our cognitive faculties such as Orientation with GPS, memorization with search engines, the rational organization with dedicated applications. Some are showing a kind of technological optimism and find it formidable to outsource the memory to focus on the most beautiful of the human being: creativity. In truth, the man delegated so much of his abilities to the technology that if he does not heed, there will remain only the raw emotion. Creativity does not appear overnight; it takes years to build. Time to even think. Without this working memory, without these basic cognitive structures that are analysis, synthesis, effort to classify or prioritize, it is impossible to reach the potential of self. It is urgent to learn to go to the end of what one can with their intellectual, corporeal and spiritual forces because humanity has not yet yielded all its flavor, grandeur and sensitive intelligence which Gushes at the junction of flesh and spirit.

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