ENC-1101
19 julio 2014
Word count 1515
Technology’s Takeover: Is it too Late to Unplug?
“Though technology has allowed us to improve and modify traditional tasks, it has also clouded our realization of the dependency we have on it” (Sala).
Ever since men’s first thoughts, technology, as a synonym for development, has been around. From the first fire pit, to the first boat design, and finally to the first electronic device, through eras, the human race has managed to discover more ways to do things faster and easier, and to make their life simpler. The object of this research is to persuade and to inform the general public interested in technological impacts and the negative effects it has brought to those who over use it and also to catch, as a desired audience, that part of society blind to such gravity. Even though these new inventions have indeed given us the ease to have almost everything one click or touch away, a dependence on these advances has been developed by their take over, and therefore a harmlessness and ignorance to the possibility of living without it affecting social communication, education, and society’s behavior.

SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Just a couple of decades ago, meeting a friend at a café or asking another person for a dance, were two of the most common ways to socialize and to get to know others. In the present, it does not usually happen. Social networks, apps, and date-finding websites have substituted that habit, and now we communicate through machines. In her article, “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness”, from The New York Times Digital Edition, author Tara Parker wrote that “Typically the concern about our dependence on technology is that it distracts from our time with family and friends in the real world” (2) because some might pay more attention to their cellphones or other devices than to the actual