Esll

Brian Sung

Lisa Collato

ESLL 26

April 22, 2016

Draft #1

Programmed Brain

If I would say the most surprising thing that human accomplished until now, technology innovation would be chosen in my mind. We are living in this world, moment of time that technological background is taking for granted. What we used to imagine in hope, excitement, or desire that was visualized just in our dream, has become reality. The analog generation no longer exists and digital generation took over the place. We can make a call, text, web search, listening to music, and do all kinds of features on cell phone. The internet is now the biggest market in this world and the most convenient way to get information that you need. It is definitely true that modern technology brought so many advantages and positive effects in our life. However, technology slowly programs our memory and brain like the computers were programmed by human. On top of the benefits the technology has brought us, there is inevitable truth behind, which affects negatively on our ability to engage and corporate with others, distracts to perform our daily tasks indirectly by providing us with excessive comfort.

Modern technology has negatively impacted us and damaged our social skill that we used to have face to face conversation, slowly deletes our memory and made us rely on the internet strongly that our ability to solve the issue became weaker and less developed. When texting was not generalized, I remember that people used to talk on the phone or by person, and have real conversations with emotions and feelings. However, texting and social networking has now become the main source to communicate each other in convenient, and people tend to communicate by technology not by in person. It is really handy and easy to have conversation each other but it created a invisible barrier that meeting in person would feel awkward and uncomfortable. In the article, “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, said that...