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The key is balancing. It would be a horrible place if everything was done digitally. If all our interaction with other humans beings were done through our electronics, society would become dull and even more depressed then human beings are by nature. People would not know what to do when confronted with a problem and they could not simply hide behind their computer screen. Human interaction is a key element in the world. With no human interaction, businesses would fail. Business owners will not hire a person who can only communicate through a telephone or a computer. Salesmen need to have excellent human interaction skills. None of these technologies are harmful to humans or how they interact with each other. They were built to help bring people together, just in a different kind of way. The only way that these technologies become dangerous is when they start to become the only way that people talk with others; when they start to rely on them instead of using them for convenience. It is undeniable the convenience that these technologies do add to our lives. Being able to contact people across the nation, across the world even, in just a matter of seconds and with minimum effort. New ways of learning about people open up our abilities to find people with similar interests. Unfortunately with all these benefits that technology can bring to the world, there are negative effects as well. The technology is great for communication, but they hurt interaction with others. Balancing the amount of communication that we do electronically and communicating with someone directly is difficult to balance and sometimes requires a great amount of self-discipline. The past two decades has brought many different movements in the different ways of communication and there will be more to come. The amount that we talk has dramatically increased but the content of our conversation is still the same (Goldberg). |
