Technological Advancements: How Technology Has Affected Our Culture

In recent years our culture has made extensive technological advancements. While these technological advancements are extraordinary, they have affected our culture in numerous ways. The main reason technology affects us in such an immense way, is that our culture often does consider or realize the consequences technology will have on the future. Our cultures everyday life has become completely fixated with technology that we often forget our reliance on technology. Therefore we feel no need to recognize the consequences of addiction with technology. If we continue to live oblivious to the consequences of our overuse of technological advancement, we might leave future generations in a world that is already or will be ruined by technology. The
Our worlds over dependence and overuse of technology is becoming more and more noticeable each and every day. We are becoming so reliant on technology that we are almost incapable of surviving without it. Similar to Wall-e we are blindly using technology and do not realize we have an addiction with it. In the book They Say I Say author of the reading "Better than Humans" Kevin Kelly, says " Every time you click on the search button you are employing a robot to do something we as species are unable to do alone." (301) Technology has advanced so much that everyday task that used to be done by hand are now down through technology so we often forget that we are using it. A real world issue that Wall-e also brings up is the fact that we as humans have allowed technology to make decisions for us about our world without questioning it. We have been brought up in a culture that has taught us to listen to the internet and do what it says, to the point that we blindly follow what they hear and see on the internet. Wall-e also brings up the real world issue of our overuse of technology. Our whole world revolves around technology and no matter how hard you try you will never be without it. This has led to our blindness to real world issues and our incapability to solve them without
By doing this we can create a healthy relationship between humans and technology. Were our world benefit from technology not detriment from technology. I believe my success is due to childhood with very little technology. While most children in this generation grow up having tablets, computers, and phones I did not until I was older. By not growing up on technology I was able to focus on academics and when I was given technology I was able to mostly use it to benefit my academics. By growing up with little technology it allowed be to see what I could do when I was not distracted. Ultimately, my life without technology helped me get to where I am todays which is a dual enrolled college student at the College of Western Idaho as a sophomore in high school. I fear that if I grew up on technology like most children in my generation I would have been just as addicted to it as they are and I would not be where I am today. Having little technology in my life until I was wise enough to use it responsibly allowed be to benefit from technology. Technology can be as easily good as it is bad in ones’ life as long as you learn to use is