LOL. OMG. TTYL. Three or four-lettered
words used to be three or four-word phrases.
We have become dependent on technology
to do things for us. We have grown
accustomed to its presence, or capabilities, rather, because technology doesn’t
just “exist,” it does. Some may say that the current generation –
mostly the youth – have become lazy in terms of communicating or taking action towards
certain things. If we need directions to
a new restaurant, we look up the address and plug it in to our phones, and Siri
tells us where to go. If we are writing
a research paper, we Google (or Wikipedia) the answers and use the “control f”
button to find key words on a page; we barely even read the whole thing. And then, we haphazardly write our research
papers without checking for mistakes, because Microsoft Word will point our
mistakes with squiggly red lines.
Does this mean our intelligence as a
society is downgrading? No. We still
have to consider the masterminds who have imagined of and created these
technological advances to begin with.
But have we lost some of the human interaction and analytical skills needed
to develop intellectually and socially?
IDK.
- Erica Gonzales
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