Technology Brings Us Too Much Convenience

Technology Brings Us Too Much Convenience The increasing development of technology has brought modern people efficiency and convenience, yet the growth of technological advancements has negatively influenced the social interactions of individuals because it isolates them from reality, hinders communication, and perpetuates the concept of immediate satisfaction. The technological era is a symbol of highly commercialistic and well-developed society because it costs ultimate knowledge and money to keep them in the place. Under the perfect cover of this symbol of wealth, technology overwhelms individuals to be more emotionally isolated though they seem to be able to connect easily. “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle, illustrates the fact that technology separates individuals’ ideal lives from practice. Based on hundreds of interviews, the author describes new unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how individuals understand privacy and community, intimacy, and solitude. The author describes technology as the architect of people’s intimacies. The virtual world is built upon individuals’ imaginations of how they want their virtual images would be to look like rather than the truth in the real world. This high-tech, overwhelmed and imaged world is driven by the modern capitalistic society, which is also described in “From the Frying Pan into the Fire” by Arlie Russell Hochschild, who emphasizes the competition between ideal and practice, by starting with a magazine advertisement for instant oatmeal pitched at mothers who are too busy to show love and affection to their children. Rather than focus on the balance between capitalism and family value, Hochschild argues that technology increasingly lets individuals seek care from experts, and ignore the interaction with family members, which is the most important part of family relationships. This misunderstanding of using technology leads individuals’ lives to a new