Read the article, "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?"
Respond to the following prompt in one to two full paragraphs (5-7 sentences each) by 8:00am on Thursday, 11/16 for up to 5 points extra credit (effort)
Based on the information in this article, how is the way technology impacts society today similar to the way technology impacts the Hadley family in Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"?
The technology being described in the article and the technology in the short story "The Veldt" are seemingly similar. It states in the article that teen today are more likely to stay inside and play on their phones than go out to hang out with their friends or family. This is basically saying that teens have become more dependent on technology then before. In "The Veldt", the children of the Hadley family were obsessed and extremely dependent on the nursery to entertain them. The parents as well where also dependent on the houses functions, not having to lift a finger for anything. This shows that too much smart technology has made both our society and Ray Bradburry's society dependent on inanimate objects. Therefore, even though the technology in this day of age is not as psychologically damaging as Ray Bradbury's society, they both produced similar impacts.
ReplyDeleteThe technology in the story is very similar to the technology in The Veldt. The first similarly between them are both kids of this generation and of the veldt spend more time in the house, this is because technology is the main attention grabber nowadays. The second similarity between the kids in the Veldt and kids nowadays are that we become more to ourself and quiet because of our phone distracting us. Another connection is that we tend to become bored faster because after awhile of time we get tired off the same old technology. Technology controls our generation and will only become bigger and better in future generations.
ReplyDeleteAs I read I noticed that the technology in this story was a lot similar to the veldt. One similarity is that the veldt and the kids will make them become home bodies because they will have every thing they need at home. Another similarity is that in the veldt and in the story was that kids became very quiet because of their phone distracting them. The story summaries that teens need to grow up and become independent. Without technology they would have to be independent anyway so. By the teens not be independent this effects the parents as well, they are just as bad and they are grown. In today’s time technology is the source of everything, like right now I’m typing this on my phone instead of It being handwritten . This effects Bradbury society as well.
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ReplyDeleteThe article and the Veldt are very similar because they both show or prove how technology influenced younger generation. In the Veldt I.T shows how the kids and the family were so used to not doing anything and depending on the technology for everything. The machines in the nursery of the home could go off of how the kids felt inside and bring I.T to life. In the article it I.T shows how iPhones impacted teens life ever since 2011 causes kids to be less social not interacting with other kids because their to busy on there phones. When the kids were interacting like taking trips to the mall they wouldn’t even interact as much because they would be on there phones. This also increase cyber bullying because technology. Teens also began not getting enough sleep because they were to busy up late nights on there iPhones.
I noticed that this article and the Veldt are similar to each other. One of these similarities was it had a story on there where it was about the girl named Athena who goes to the mall with her friends to hang out and shop, but all of them was on their phones more often going to the mall rather all of them talking and hanging out like regular people. The article states that Millennials today are like super infatuated with their technology so much that their behaviors are changing generations to gen that teens are not going outside and socializing with their fellow peers, they rather stay inside and post social media with their friends and also attribute to an introvert or antisocial behavior that teens are doing today.
ReplyDeleteThe article and the Veldt are very similar to each other because they both represent how technology affects the younger generation negatively in numerous ways. In the article it gave an example of graph about children later in the years staying to themselves and not hanging with their friends because they were too preoccupied with their Iphone. The Veldt showed the children staying to themselves almost all of the time and having their everyday lives surrounded and influenced by technology, causing them to display their imaginations negatively and without any morals. This represents how both the article and The Veldt show that too much technology can make people and especially children so dependent and antisocial that it makes them forget about the greater things in life and distracts them from what actually makes everyone human.
ReplyDeleteThe Veldt and the 21st century according to the article are very much alike. They both equally show how technology affects children in a way that can hurt them. The Veldt shows how children become so dependent on indulging in technology to occupy time that when they are left without it, they get stuck. The article mentioned how millenials today are “infatuated” with technology. Basically saying they they’re obsessed.
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