Synthesis Essay: How Technology Is Overtaking Our Lives

While I understand the point of the author trying to portray that technology is overtaking our lives and is morphing us as a society to be less personal with one another, he has a very odd way of approaching it - to put it nicely. Marshall states a lot of things that I just straight don't agree with, for example, when he first begins to talk about the light bulb. He states that the written form is content of print, which is content of the telegraph but then states that the content of speech is "an actual process of thought," as if written form has no thought. He then uses the light bulb metaphor to state that whether the light is used for brain surgery or a baseball game and without these electric lights, they wouldn't exist (because they are the content of said electric light).
He then makes the bold statement to compare General Electric to AT&T, slyly stating that GE hasn't learned that true business is in the form of moving information. I believe he is really overlooking what the point he is trying to portray and going too far. If there is potential to start a business, whether it be electrical components or burgers, someone will make that leap if there's a spot. Technology has been around since the dawn of man, while yes his point that technology is exponentially increasing (Moore's law) and getting deeper and deeper within our lives, nothing will change that this new technology is really a tool for humans and society to use, how we decide to use these new tools is the real point that I believe the author is attempting to