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The document discusses how people have become overly reliant on technology and how it has negatively impacted interpersonal interactions and attention spans. It provides examples of how some individuals prioritize their devices over human relationships, like a businessman choosing his BlackBerry over colleagues and a teenager only knowing how to text, not converse. While technology offers knowledge and entertainment, it can also promote believing lies and fake news online rather than emotions felt face-to-face. Ironically, mankind created technology but now chooses devices over people, giving the creations we made power over us instead of appreciating the human relationships and society that enabled technology's development.

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Gatarin ET4

The document discusses how people have become overly reliant on technology and how it has negatively impacted interpersonal interactions and attention spans. It provides examples of how some individuals prioritize their devices over human relationships, like a businessman choosing his BlackBerry over colleagues and a teenager only knowing how to text, not converse. While technology offers knowledge and entertainment, it can also promote believing lies and fake news online rather than emotions felt face-to-face. Ironically, mankind created technology but now chooses devices over people, giving the creations we made power over us instead of appreciating the human relationships and society that enabled technology's development.

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The article tackles how people rely too much on technology, how we choose to
take things online instead of face-to-face, and how we like it better to interact with these
devices or gadgets than converse with a real-life person. Where technology changed us
for the worse, on who we are, and our attention span decreased so much that we cannot
have meaningful and long conversations. Instead, we limited our conversations and made
chats or conversing with other people much simpler and less interesting. For some
people, that’s their level of "interesting", where we get dumber and turn into simple-
minded beings who lack control over their attention or focus.

Analyzing the article, it’s all about how dejected we are from reality as technology
takes away our freedom and how much we are replacing mankind with it. I agree with that
fact, but it doesn’t mean that it’s supposed to be good. The article is based on real-life
experiences with some interviews, like the businessman who chose his "BlackBerry" over
his colleagues, a 16-year-old boy who only knows how to text and not converse with
people, a high school sophomore who chose an AI over his dad about dating, and lastly,
the older woman who got comforted by a "baby seal" robot. These people are suffering
from too much screen time, or we can say that they’re prisoners of their own tools,
devices, or equipment. We’re supposed to be the users, not the other way around.

I must admit, I’m just like the rest of them. No matter how much I resist using my
phone or laptop, it has almost everything that this world has to offer. All the knowledge,
the entertainment, and the people—even the emotions and feelings that people want to
convey— The only difference is that we only sympathize with what we read; we are not
truly feeling these emotions personally and face-to-face, which leads us to easily believe
in what we see on the internet, including its lies and fake news. This hampers our ability
to determine the truth over the lie and the good over the bad.

The most ironic thing about loving technology and everything that it has to offer
mankind is that mankind was the one who built and invested in technology. All these
things were made by us; it can be said that we are guided and driven by both God and
science including our ambitions. But the knowledge, everything that we like about the
internet, were memories and glimpses of mankind doing their jobs or roles in society. The
words, the emotions, the videos, and the interface were all made by us. But instead of
giving credit to technology, we give what we created so much power over us that we
choose them over our own people. We chose a device or piece of equipment that was
made to have no faults or flaws but was made through errors, trials, and difficulties. I rest
my case.

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