Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

I enjoyed reading this story and thought that the author made a lot of important points.  I did agree with everything he was saying as well as the main purpose of the story but I do have a little different take on story.  There were many points made in the story that I was never really aware of.  The author cited many different research studies as well as important facts that would definitely persuade the reader to sway away from multi-tasking as well as being too dependent on technology.    

            The main issue of this story is that technology is becoming such a major part of our modern day life that maybe there is starting to become some negative effects from it.  For instance, multi-taskers that are doing too much at one time sometimes have trouble filtering out irrelevant information that are receiving with modern issues and events.  Also, the author makes it a point to the reader that too much technology is bad for young children that are still developing their brain.  I can defiantly see how this is a problem because it can turn into a health related issue and affect the child for the rest of their life.  The author continues to prove his point that technology is affecting our lives by continually going back to the main character in the story, Mr. Campbell.  Mr. Campbell has a family with a loving wife and children that are under the impression that he cares more about his smart phones, his tech savvy devices and his video games than he does his own family.  This may or may not be the case but in multiple examples Mr. Campbell is more concerned with these devices than he is with him family, from vacations to simple family days he is always busy and always needing to be connected.

            It seems that the author is trying to make a point to the reader that with tech savvy our world is becoming that it can possibly become unhealthy.  I do agree with the author that this technology can become distracting as well as unhealthy.  It can lead to many issues that the author didn’t mention from depression to even violence.  The author threw out a pretty interesting stat as well, saying, “that people at home consume 12 hours of media a day on average”.  Clearly 12 hours is extremely overwhelming and defiantly unnecessary.  It is a shame that this is the type of world we live in, something has to change.

            I mentioned earlier that I do agree with everything the author has said but I just want to point out that to some people like myself, technology has made me a smarter person, from becoming a better reader to becoming a better writer.  I am thankful that we have all the technology that we do out there.   I understand how to manage my social media networks as well as the time spent on my Ipad and my computer.  I do benefit greatly from the opportunity and privileges that technology provides me with.