Final Essay for Atp L&L2

Technology is Making us Less Social

Abstract

Although technology may have changed the world for the better, so prevalent in our lives has it become it has caused society to change the way it interacts. Intern these changes have caused society to be less social, isolating people from each other and causing psychological problems.

In 1964, Arthur C Clarke stated ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. He then when on to talk about how in the future people can keep in contact wherever they are regardless of distance and that social events would not require anyone to leave their home. Instead a person could just visit friends through a new technology like the television, even entertaining multiple groups of people at the same time (Clarke, 1964). He thought all this new technology would bring the world closer together. Now people live in this new world with technologies that allow them to communicate wherever they are, with the past but a distant memory for most whom have turned on a computer or checked their phone for messages (Elise Hu, 2013, Clarke, 1964). The time has Long pasted when people would communicate only in person and staying socially connected with friends and family meant visiting them or going to local gatherings. Now you can stay in touch just by turning on the closest screen. As technology rapidly changes the way people interact socially, the negative impacts caused are only now being found (Campbell, & Park, 2008). This essay will argue that technology is leading people to be less social through the ability to connect directly without human contact (Lovink, 2012). Secondly, it argues the lack of personal contact with people slowly taking a psychological cost. (Hu E, 2013, Thompson, 2013). Finally technology isolates people from other around them forcing a continued use of the technology that keeps them connected (Hiebert, 2013, Williams, 2013). Each of these points will show that technology is...