All over the world cell phones, tablets, self-computers or iPod's seem to be all that we are on now-a-days. "According to Lee Siegel, "we shop, work, play, love, search for information, seek to communicate with each other and sometimes with the world online. We spend more time online than ever before. Yet people are not arguing about this startling new condition"” (Reynoldsburg, N). The devices we use change the way we live much faster than any contest among genes. We rely heavily on what’s the latest and greatest. Striving to get the next best thing including smarter phones, or cars when we don't really need it. Take the iPhone 6 for example, people would line up as early as 6 AM just to have the tablet of a phone.  Some people are just fine with getting the new thing that comes out while others, like myself tend to not follow the crowd. Will the improvement of technology take us in the right direction or lead the world into a downward spiral?

A man named Kevin Kelly tends to think that the improvement is a good thing. In his book "What Technology Wants," Kelly writes: "Technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency; Increasing opportunity; Increasing emergence; Increasing complexity; Increasing diversity; Increasing specialization; Increasing ubiquity; Increasing freedom; Increasing mutualism; Increasing beauty; Increasing sentience; Increasing structure; Increasing evolvability" (Wu, T). Not saying that all technology is bad but how we use it and rely on it may not be what’s best. According to Professor Susan Greenfield, modern technology is effecting one of our main organs. The Brain. “Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis. It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all. This crisis could reshape how we interact with each other, alter what makes us happy, and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals” (Greenfield, S). Not only do these devices affect our mental state, they affect us physically as well. What I see happening in the next 25-30 years is we will know longer interact as we did before the portable inventions were surfaces, we will rely heavily on electronics and whatever the future technology may bring and also not really be our true selves.

It reminds me of the movie Wall-E how the humans had left Earth and were living on a space ship being levitated around in chairs all day, losing their figures, eating and watching TV in the same spots. They in turn can’t even walk because they were overwhelmed with new technology. We may never know what the future will bring us but our present actions can steer us down the rabbit hole. "The more advanced technology becomes, the more it seems to have control over our lives" (Reynoldsburg, N). Modern technology can radically change our lives, for the better or for worse.

References

Greenfield, S. N.D. Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist. Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved November 12, 2014 from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-565207/Modern-technology-changing-way-brains-work-says-neuroscientist.html

Reynoldsburg, N. N.D. Negative Effects of Technology on Society. Teenink.com. Retrieved November 12, 2014 from http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/482544/Negative-Effects-of-Technology-on-Society/

Wu, T. (2014, February 6). As Technology gets better, Will society get worse? Newyorker.com. Retrieved November 12, 2014 from http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse