Hello everyone. My rhetoric and media class is coming to an end and this will be my last post for the semester. Thank you all for following my posts these past months and hopefully you gained some insight into how technology is being used today, and it's potential in the future.
In this last blog post, I will be covering the topic of technological dependency. Cell phone addiction has become so prevalent that it now has a name: nomophobia. We have become so reliant on using our phones to carry out tasks that we may not know how to live effectively in society without it.
When you rely on something, there is less of an incentive to learn it for yourself, simply because you do not need to. This is why technology is so dangerous. For example, if you rely on a friend to give you answers in class, you do not need to know the content as well, because it is already done for you. If you lose the friend, then you are stuck in the class, far behind on the content. Similar to this, if you lose your phone, you are stuck in society with less knowledge on the things you used to look up on the internet before.
We rely on our phones for entertainment, knowledge, convenience, connectedness and many more things. Just like withdrawals from addiction, taking away someones phone can have psychological consequences. According to Tim Elmore in his article, Nomophobia: A Rising Trend in Students, 66 percent of adults in the United States suffer from nomophobia.
Articles like this show that the problem is only getting worse. As technology advances, our reliance increases. Since technology is everywhere, nomophobia may only be a temporary side effect, but it is definitely something to pay attention to. If technology becomes so advanced that we rely on it for most everything, then our lives will be dedicated to being machine operators.
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