Technology is controlling and changing our everyday lives. I strongly believe Gary Shteyngart in his article “Only Connect”; not only is the I-phone changing everybody lives, but any other smart phone that exists in today’s society. Shteyngart says “With each passing year, scientists estimate that I lose between 6 and 8 percent of my humanity, so that by the close of this decade you will be able to quantify my personality. ” He is correct because every year technology changes and advance. Each year people personality decrease in how they act in their everyday life.
Smart phones have everything you can possibly imagine. Society is becoming too comfortable and lazy because they have all the answer they need rite at the palm of their hands. Smart phones have become very addicting to the point that people are not realizing the damage it’s doing to them self. Shteyngart describes his personality as “the latest-model Audi” and a “brave new toaster. ” He knows he’s already losing himself in the technology world just like everybody else. I myself can say I am an example of how addictive I have been with my blackberry. It is very sickening.
I can be on anything involving my cell phone and I completely ignore whoever is speaking to me. I suggest that people turn off their notifications that are sent to their phone. This semester I have chosen to do this, and it has helped me improve my grade. I have managed to go into facebook twice a day when usually I was distracted all day. Smartphone are decreasing the ability of learning instead of increasing it. Continue, closing up his essay Shteyngart states “In the meantime, something “white nights” will be happening out there; the sun has set and yet it has not.
With the animal safely in our stomachs, with single malts and beers before us, we can read or talk softly about what we’re reading, about the glory and sadness of finding ourselves this close to the middle of our existence (cue the Chekhov, cue the Roth) and as we do so the most important purchases we have ever made in our lives are snugly holstered in the pockets of our shorts, useless, as we commune in some ancient way, laughing and groaning, passing around lighted objects and containers of booze while thoroughly facebooking one another for real in the fading summer light. Shteyngart is talking about how life would be like without the use of technology.
Interacting with his friends face to face, rather than having their smart phones attached to their hands. Furthermore, “Soon my friends will get off that Amtrak, they will help me roast an animal and some veggies, even as they point their iTelephones at the sky, praying for rain. Their prayers will not be answered. Connecting. . . will flash impotently on the screen, but they will not connect. ” He was being sarcastic about this quote because even if somebody is multitasking with their smart phones it does not mean they are fully focus on what they are doing. Another significant way that smart phones have changed our lives is navigation. Before you had to plan when you were going to travel, but now you can simply walk out of the house, enter the address of your destination into your phone.
It gives you many different ways to direct you to your destination. I believe is interesting to look into a map and find your way to your destination. Finally, reading Shteyngart essay made me realize I needed to find a way to improve not using my cell phone so much. He mentioned “With each post, each tap of the screen, each drag and click, I am becoming a different person,” he realized himself how he was changing his personality and becoming different when using a smart phone.
Each year people personality decrease in how they act in their everyday life, and others that surround then. Smart phones have everything you can possibly imagine. Society is becoming too comfortable and lazy because they have all the answer they need rite at the palm of their hands. Smart phones have become very addicting to the point that people are not realizing the damage it’s doing to them self.
