Technology Eliminates Personal Interaction

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For years mobile technology has taken over face to face interaction, in several ways. We as a society no longer take pride in reading the morning newspaper or gossiping about the new family in town with our girlfriends down the street. Instead, we are a society that pulls out their cellphone to check the stock market, the news and the weather. We, as a society, pick up the phone to call or text to gossip, rather than knocking on our neighbor’s door, to talk about the neighborhood housewives over coffee. Grandma does not send us letters anymore with money in them. She transfers the money into a bank account, using her smart phone, then sends a text saying she loves us. Our children have become addicted to things like phones, videogames, and laptops; family time ceases to exist! Granted technology companies work hard to make their products safe it is undeniable that mobile technology has eliminated personal interaction and replaced it with a bond to devices that can now talk and correct our spelling. Technology has come so far in order to make our lives easier, and it a lot of ways it has. For example the medical field wouldn’t be able to respond to severe cases in the time they do today without the technology that has been produced for the medical teams. Scientists have worked so hard to get us technology that benefits us rather than hurting us. In fact, according to Namwoon Kim, Subin Im, and Stanely F. Slater who wrote a paper called, “Impact of Knowledge Type and Strategic Orientation on New Product Creativity and Advantages in High-Technology Firms*” about consumer survey’s to make technology newer and more fresh. “New product novelty and meaningfulness are shown to enhance new product advantage in terms of product different... ... middle of paper ... ...rone-like family back to life, and only you can change that text message to an eye locking conversation. Works Cited Bilton, Nick. "Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone." NYTimes.com. The New York Times, 1 Sept. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2014. Gonchar, Michael . "Does Technology Make Us More Alone?." NYTimes.com. The New York Times, 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2014. Kim, Namwoon, Subin Im, and Stanley F. Slater. "Impact Of Knowledge Type And Strategic Orientation On New Product Creativity And Advantage In High-Technology Firms Impact Of Knowledge Type And Strategic Orientation On New Product Creativity And Advantage In High-Technology Firms." Journal Of Product Innovation Management 30.1 (2013): 136-153. Business Source Premier. Web. 7 Apr. 2014. Rafter, Michelle. "Kids getting phones at ever earlier ages." . MSN Money Partner, 5 Feb. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2014.

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