Technology's Role In The Relive Box

The role of technology throughout my life has been up and down to say the least. While technology has aided my dysgraphia by helping teachers read my essays and papers, it has also played the part of being not only a distraction during my school work, but a distraction in my life as a whole. Yet technology is not bad or good in and of itself, the positives and negatives of technology truly depends on or are relative to the user and how they utilize the technology given to them. Although many people criticize technology for what it has done to the current state of society, I believe technology has helped today’s society become more dynamic and led to endless possibilities. For me personally, technology has been a tool for me that has aided

Before reading The Relive Box I thought this aspect of of recording your life with technology was great because it can be seen as a tool that could help someone better understand their past. Yet what is seen from The Relive Box is that by having a device where you can fully relive any moment in your life, people begin to spend much of the present reliving those moments from when they were younger. In this story, the main character’s life begins to turn for the worse once he has the relive box, and this man even knows this as he states, “Ever since I’d sprung for the five-thousand dollar, second-generation Halcom X1520 Relive Box with the In-Flesh Retinal Projection Stream and altered forever the dynamic between me and my only child”. This man begins to spend most of his time on it, he begins to show up late for work, and worst of all he begins to spend almost no time with his only child in order to relive the best parts from his earlier years. The man in The Relive Box is a perfect example of how someone can use technology in the wrong way. This man could have used the machine he bought to analyze what parts of his life made him happy and then go out and do these same things, but instead, uses the technology given to him to relish in the past instead of going out and making new memories for himself in the