In his piece “From Civil Rights to Megachurches,” Charles Duhigg outlines a basic formula in order for a social movement to me successful. He says “A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances” (87). Based on Duhigg’s example of Rosa Parks, her friends and close acquaintances … [Read more…]
Climate change is a topic that creates a lot of controversial arguments, one of which being if climate change is actually real. Climate change is in fact real and Juliet Schor discusses the damage of the fossil fuel industries in the movie “Do the Math.” Schor explains how we are still releasing carbon at an … [Read more…]
After looking at many different articles and discussing the matter with my classmates, I believe that technology can be used most efficiently when used in moderation. By only allowing yourself to use a cell phone for its intended purpose of making phone calls, you completely eliminate the chance of receiving an overwhelming amount of information online … [Read more…]
The argument around technology seems to consist of exploring the extreme side of things; living a life completely glued to your phone, unable to acknowledge to world around you versus shutting off your phone and unplugging entirely. The reason these extremes are at the forefront of how people view technology is because we have yet … [Read more…]
In her article “Plug in Better,” Alexandra Samuel discusses not only how unplugging causes more frustration with technology, but offers life altering advice on how to stay plugged while still avoiding the negative affects of technology. Samuel starts similarly to Anderson by emphasizing the negative ways technology has dictated our lives thus far, but then … [Read more…]
Technology is a topic fairly new to the world and yet has been evolving at an exponential rate for the last twenty years or so. From the release of the first smartphones phones came the spread of information like a virus through the internet. Everywhere you go and everyone you meet is engulfed by technology. … [Read more…]
Personally, I don’t think technology has had a negative impact on my life. For the most part I just use my phone for communicating with people which, in my opinion, has made my life better. When I sit on my phone and try to play games to keep myself occupied, I find observing my surroundings … [Read more…]
In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean Twenge makes her claim very clear: “the experiences [teens today] have every day are radically different from those of the generation that came of age a few years before them,” (3) and those changes in experiences are due to the advancing technology. This quote and idea remind me … [Read more…]
“In Defense of Distraction” by Sam Anderson has many different claims along the way but eventually reveals the overall claim that there is a balance of distraction that is crucial to a successful life. To complicate his argument, Anderson also proves it necessary to pull apart the negative impacts of technological distractions, which I find … [Read more…]
