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In 2018, our eyes remained glued to our phones, our fingertips to our keyboards, and our minds to the digital trance that results from the images and messages that move across our screens. The mantra for this generation shall be “in technology we trust,” as we worship and praise the devices we grasp so tightly in

When we think about technology what comes to mind many times? Although people many times think that technology is the cause of people’s problems many times it is actually the person using it that causes their own problems. According to the article: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/29/technology-doesnt-ruin-health-people/events/the-takeaway/ people are the ones that are actually ruining their own health. The article says,

If you read The Real Effects of Technology on Your Health, one may assume that using technology is bad for all aspects of a person’s personal help. Mentally, physically, visually, you name it. Excessive technology use has been tied to emotional instability, hearing loss, muscle and joint pain, heart issues, strained vision, and memory loss.

Tristan Harris’ work, How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind—from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, explains not only the extreme dependence the general public has on technology but also the strong need and desire to stay connected in fear of missing out on opportunities or news. He further explains this in a Ted-Talk as he

After searching for myself on google I came to the conclusion that I could not find many things about myself online. The one thing that I found was facebook and my high school wrestling stats. This is a good thing but a bad thing. I want people to see some things about me like my

I googled myself, and I was not especially surprised at what I found. What I was surprised by, however, was how much came up to my name, and what I was associated with. As a dancer in the per-professional world, I have a Youtube page where videos of all of my past routines and performances

Before the Search: Ultimately, everyone can be searched and found on the internet due to the exponential increase in the technological use of 2018. If someone were to have googled my name, I believe that my identity would only be traced to a facebook link. However, if someone were to have googled my stage name,

https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/educating-net-generation/convenience-communications-and-control-how-students-use-technology   This article is different than many articles because it is more about stats and less about what the college students do with the technology. It talks about each college has a different percentage of people using technology. It is really interesting to see the different usage at each college. For example, “Freshmen students,

This article talks about how college life has changed with the expansion of technology. It shows how some students did not ever check their emails and because of that they would not know if the test or quiz the next day got the subject changed. This shows how people basically have to depend on technology

Conor Friedersdorf talks about Technology in Colleges and how it is being used over the years. At first he portrays his own experience with technology and college, apparently almost nobody used wifi, and one reason was because there was no internet on campus, which was not unusual at his time. Afterwards he talks about how everything