Slaves to the Screens
Gabe Sanchez
Slaves to the Screens
In today’s society we find ourselves sitting in front of and LCD screen for countless hours throughout the weeks on end. The line that distinguishes between machinery and the organic is steadily beginning to diminish like snow on a busy highway. As a film fanatic, college student and video editor I too stare at monitors for prolonged periods of time. Whether it be for research, course work, watching movies and TV shows, or just messing around on our phones; it seems that the technology we have created in order to make our lives easier and to entertain us is also enslaving us and even turning some into zombies.
People in the modern feel as though if they aren’t constantly being stimulated then they’re bored. This has resulted in a generation of people who aren’t happy alone with what is actually right in front of them in the real world.
With the abundance of handheld technologies available to us multitasking has essentially become an unhidden art form. Just sitting on your couch you can hold numerous divergent conversations on the buzzing phone in your hands. Be reading the latest news such as whatever problems some supposedly famous person has created for themselves in one tab of your laptop and downloading new music on another, and catching up on all the dastardly distraction stories being pushed by the media along with those in Washington. All while not missing a second of that show you’ve been hooked on for the past couple of weeks. Without these constant stimulations we a supposed to feel out of the loop when in actuality the real issues are being hidden from us.
As a college student, my peers and myself often go to computers for a majority of our work. For instance right now I’m sitting in a cold dusty lab writing to you this composition on my thoughts of where the loins share of our population spend their time. For classes I find myself constantly browsing the web for intriguing research and compelling articles
Slaves to the Screens
In today’s society we find ourselves sitting in front of and LCD screen for countless hours throughout the weeks on end. The line that distinguishes between machinery and the organic is steadily beginning to diminish like snow on a busy highway. As a film fanatic, college student and video editor I too stare at monitors for prolonged periods of time. Whether it be for research, course work, watching movies and TV shows, or just messing around on our phones; it seems that the technology we have created in order to make our lives easier and to entertain us is also enslaving us and even turning some into zombies.
People in the modern feel as though if they aren’t constantly being stimulated then they’re bored. This has resulted in a generation of people who aren’t happy alone with what is actually right in front of them in the real world.
With the abundance of handheld technologies available to us multitasking has essentially become an unhidden art form. Just sitting on your couch you can hold numerous divergent conversations on the buzzing phone in your hands. Be reading the latest news such as whatever problems some supposedly famous person has created for themselves in one tab of your laptop and downloading new music on another, and catching up on all the dastardly distraction stories being pushed by the media along with those in Washington. All while not missing a second of that show you’ve been hooked on for the past couple of weeks. Without these constant stimulations we a supposed to feel out of the loop when in actuality the real issues are being hidden from us.
As a college student, my peers and myself often go to computers for a majority of our work. For instance right now I’m sitting in a cold dusty lab writing to you this composition on my thoughts of where the loins share of our population spend their time. For classes I find myself constantly browsing the web for intriguing research and compelling articles