The movie Wall-E shows a lot of compelling technology such as automatic chairs and holograms, but did you notice the effects this technology had on humanity? When you first see the round, chubby humans in Wall-e, your first instinct was to probably laugh. Once you really think about it, though, that future might soon become ours. Even though most technology is very useful and convenient, our dependence on it can lower our ability to focus, decrease people skills, and decline physical health as depicted in Wall-E.
The Pew Research Center focuses on technology-related things and conducted a survey for 2,462 teachers. Ninety percent of those teachers believed that technology was causing their students to become more easily distracted with shorter attention spans. An article on Huffington Post mentioned a study that showed that students could not focus on their homework for more than two minutes before having to look at some kind of electronical device like their phone or television. The Kaiser Family Foundation found that about half of students from the ages of eight to eighteen do their homework while using some kind of electronical device. Technology has affected our focus so much that we can't even focus on the little things for too long. Studies have even shown that people who use the internet at work change tabs or check their email about thirty-seven times an hour! All this multitasking can cause us to become more distracted. Sometimes, we can even become distracted towards the people around us.
A study done by Stanford said that when children spend more time with their technology instead of using that time for face-to-face communication, their social skills might decrease. A professor from Stanford University, Clifford Nas...
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In conclusion, “The Machine Stops” and “WALL-E” both use anti-technological themes to illustrate the dangers of technological advance, in particular our dependence on machines and technology for our survival. They showed that the combination of a dependence on an autonomous and out-of-control machine, a disconnection from nature, and an extreme loss of humanity can have disastrous consequences for us and our society. The question now is whether or not we can learn from these works and works like these and prevent a dark and inhuman future.
The article from Computers in Human Behavior titled “Five days at an outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues” by Ulhs, Micikiyan, Morris, Garcia, Sall, Zgourou, and Greenfield, examines research literature which indicates that face-to-face interaction is essential in human development, both in infants and older children. The influx of technological devices, including computers, smart phones, interactive video games, and tablets, has shifted how people communicate in today’s world. Children from a very early age are now being exposed to media as much as “7 ½ hours per day, seven days a week” and usage of media devices has grown “five fold” since 2012 (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). The review of literature from sources such as “Common Sense Media” on the importance of face-to-face human interaction, coupled with the staggering rates of media use among children, prompted the researchers of the article to embark on a study which analyzes what
In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.
The reference of the future of society, as depicted in Wall-E, foretells of the world being consumed in technology. Wall-E is a robot whose job is to clean up the ample amount of trash covering Earth while the human population is on a cruise ship called the Axiom in space. Eve, a robot name short for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, comes to Earth and finds a plant that shows evidence that life is sustainable on Earth. Wall-E becomes infatuated with Eve and follows her back to the Axiom, where he is introduced to a race that is drowning in technology. Wall-e’s presence causes disorder on the cruise, but with the help of Eve and a Captain fascinated with new found knowledge of Earth they help to overrule the technology around them and return to Earth. The overall background of this movie shows how being consumed in technology has negative effects on ...
...ou might even get the urge to check your Facebook or browse the web. There is a whole bunch of things on the internet that could distract a person but it all depends on the student’s maturity level. If you are using your technology device in a properly manner then you won’t get distracted. If people are mature enough to stay off things that aren’t related to education then yes, they will abuse the benefits that technology can have when doing school work.
The film Wall-E is about a lonely robot who is left working on Earth in the future. Wall-E is a trash compactor who is left there to clean up the mess that the humans made, he is the only one left. The humans left Earth to go and live on a spacecraft called Axiom until the Earth is done getting cleaned. Although, their plans changed and all of the other trash compactors broke down after so many years. Wall-E is the only robot cleaning, using the parts of other robots when he needs a new part. As he is cleaning Eve lands on Earth looking for a sign that they can come back to Earth. In this film they show us what can happen to the Earth and shows us what we have to do in order for this not to happen. This film would be classified as science fiction.
In the movie Wall-E, technology has grown into a very important role for the human race. It has a job on earth, which is to clean up the garbage that the humans have thrown everywhere, cluttering the earth and making life on earth unsustainable. This technology
Various electronics are frequently used to go on pointless websites, such as Twitter and Facebook, which ruin society’s social abilities. More and more people use social media on the internet as a communication source. This does not apply merely to kids and teens, but adults as well. Using these sorts of websites as a way of communicating causes many individuals’ social skills to decrease. A plethora of children and teens would rather stay inside and interact with their friends through the internet than go hang out with them. Before technology people were not afraid to go up to a random person and talk to them. Now many friendships form through the internet and these friendships are not genuine. When these “friends” meet in person, they find nothing to talk about. For example, I remember after watching Perks of being a Wallflower, a movie taking place in the early nineties, my friends and I discussed how all the characters communicated in person and during hanging out they played games and talked. Now...
We have lived exclusive of technology for a long time. But in today's world we have become so dependent on it that we can't live without it for a day. We’re too dependent on technology to make plans and keep in contact, And this is drawing us away from each other making us to have less face-to-face communication and more over text. We are misusing technology for our own benefits. Eventually this is going to catch up with our society for the worse. Where In both movies “Wall-e”, and “Idiocracy” it is clearly shown that how future people are dependent on technology and how this has affected them negatively.
In the video, "Can Too Much Technology Hurt a Child's Developmental Growth?" the average teenager engages in more than 11 hours of technology based items per day. The video also mentions that in a 2012 study, half of all teenagers were sending 50 text messages per day including 34 texts at night when they are supposed to be in bed. These figures are astounding! Concentration, much needed sleep and one-on-one facial interaction is being lost. This demonstrates that our cognitive culture is being hindered. Children today, are not learning traditional social protocols, such as how to listen and communicate with others. I loved how the video makes clear that there is no substitute for the real world and that parents need to be proactive in limiting their children's screen-time. In the video "Put Down That Smartphone! Finding Ways to Disconnect," many people and companies are beginning to see the importance of technology free time periods. Some companies are giving workers a week off throughout the year to unplug and recharge. Other companies are providing an email-free evening to aid with this growing problem. By doing so, hopefully this will help somewhat aid in protecting future generations from the growing technology
To begin with, personal technology is ruining one’s social skills due to the popularity of texting. Texting has become very popular among age groups. It is a fast and easy source of communication. It can be done anywhere at any time and can be done in a matter of minutes. Texting is convenient and the new normal. One may say that if not texting one’s social status may decrease. Texting has become the answer to one’s popularity due to one believing the more people one texts the more friend’s one has. Because of this, ones social skills drop due to what
As we look around whether it be on the busy and congested streets of Los Angeles or the streets of a small town with very little movement, you see people with their heads down. Its not that their looking at the ground but on cell phones. In this technologically advanced society people converse with their fingers rather then opening their mouth, tapping away to the flow of their thoughts. This is modern society as we see it today. Technological innovations have made it possible to communicate or just plainly research for information from small to large projects one might have in the comfort of ones own home or office. All this is possible through social networking, texting, email, internet and instant messaging. The greatest part of all is face to face interactions aren’t necessary, voice based communication has almost seized to exist, so less time is wasted . Even thought Technology has made it possible to stay in touch with loved one and friends on the other side of the spectrum. One might think that no negative effects could come of this as its all positive and good for humanity as a whole. But their has been a growing concern that as people continue to spend extended amount of hours in the digital world, theirs been a decline in social skills among them.
How much can technology impact your social life? Who would of thought that technology would affect life in such a major way? Little did people know that technology can impact the way humans interact with each other. While listening to music and playing games on their mobile devices, how many people actually get to know one another while standing right next to each other? A small ride on a metro or bus ride will show you just how little interaction goes on in a humans life do to the amount of use on their mobile devices. The role technology plays in socializing has a great impact on people’s interaction. People can be standing right next to each other with out saying one word to one another. While waiting for the next class to start or even during the class, people tune out the rest of the world and this can lead up to social isolation. Technology has had a bad impact on the way humans socialize because it causes people to be less interactive. Social isolation is a health condition that can become very severe and lead up to depression, anxiety, despair and many other things. Social isolation can be avoided if technology is limited to use at only appropriate times as when bored, alone or incase of an emergency you would use cell phones.
In the article, How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus, author Jim Taylor , emphasizes“…students who were allowed Internet access during class didn’t recall the lecture nor did they perform as well on a test of the material as those who weren’t “wired” during class” (par. 10). Children have become so brainwashed that they drown everything out around them and put what little attention they have, on their devices, leaving the individuals completely oblivious to their surrounding environment. From a teacher’s standpoint, it is already hard enough trying to maintain the focus of 32 wondering minds, some with ADD and learning disabilities, the last thing he or she needs is a handful of students not paying attention because they are playing on their devices. Children unable to focus on certain activities not only damagingly affects themselves, but also their fellow
We are turning to be the humans of Wall-e. They are so involved in the technology that are next to others but the only thing they are seeing is the mobile communications has style of life. ‘Wall-e supposes that the human race of the future will become a flabby mass of peabrained idiots who are literally too fat to walk. Instead they zip around in flying wheelchairs surfing the Web, chatting on phone lines and stuffing their faces with food (…)’ (Ford, 2008).