Bette Technology: The Influencing Machine By Brooke Gladstone
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Since the beginning of time technology has improved abundantly. It is not, simply artificial intelligence. Wheels, for example, were invented to help Egyptians move enormous, heavy, rectangular blocks up the pyramids. That would be considered a huge step in the direction of technical knowledge. Those advances developed by the Egyptians paved the way towards the invention of the car. These days people have computers, and, even robots. Years of technological advancements have scared humanity into believing human intelligence and artificial intelligence will, one day, switch places. Two sides of this argument are present, those that feel technology should keep growing, and those that believe it needs to slow down. As the world keeps expanding new inventions are bound to happen. One of those inventions is robots, or artificial intelligence. It really scares people.
In the article,…show more content… Technology is simply the advancement of an object for daily, practical use. Anything can be upgraded and still be considered a technological advancement. When something new happens it often gets alot of positive and negative reviews from people wo have never seen it in person. IT can also change alot of minds about what people previously thought.
In, “The Influencing Machine,” author Brooke Gladstone illustrates the dynamic media does not change people’s brains as long as it is not allowed to. The argument presented by Gladstone presents the other arguments as invalid. Gladstone is saying people are granting media the right to influence their decision making. Schizophrenics must take their required dosage of medications, otherwise, discouraging thoughts are allowed to creep inside their heads. Most times hallucinations are accompanied with depressive feelings experienced by this type of person. The outcome is a feeling of dismay coming from the people around them. In actuality, it is themselves allowing this to