Importance Of Modernity

Modernity and its problems

Our world has been changing and advancing in various ways. These changes advanced our society and made thing more manageable and easier for society to function. For instance, we first started with horse carriages, then the train and then the invention of the car. But the Biggest invention that changed various aspects of our world was the invention of the steam engine. The steam engine is the invention that marked our advancement into modernity. Modernity within our world has been good in the part that we now have resources we did not have before, we can now travel more easily, talk to people more easily and work with less manpower. Although these all seem like good advancements

Technology has made us very dependent on gadgets to do the task for us. In the article Technology the surrender of culture to technology postman states that “In a Technopoly, there is no longer a belief system independent from technology. Technology has redefined everything that gives meaning to life”( Postman 48, 54). We basically have turned into technological dependent beans, we are now a technological culture. For instance, students when doing assignments tend to depend on technology for answers. Instead of looking for answers in a textbook or using their notes they google the problem so that they may get a quick answer . In the article “Don’t fear the cyber mind” the author discusses a study conducted that saw if people would store things in their memory if they were told that the computer would not generate the answers, they then tested another group and told them that the computer could tabulate the answers to the questions they had to answer. The results were as followed “We asked people to type into a computer 40 factoids they had each just been given. . . Those who were told the computer would not record these facts tended

Capitalism starts off with mass production, mass production is making various copies of one particular product. Since we have had technological advances, and because of the way capitalistic society works where we want to produce a large number of products to be able to trade and get the money we have become robots like the machines we use to create these products. The supply and demand of the capitalistic world have made for the process to be very scripted. For the individual worker to produce something as Weber puts it “the skill is in the tool”, which means that the worker using the tool need not have the skill”(Weber 1). Weber is explaining how the individual does not need skills to operate the machinery, the machinery is what does most of the job and the human is the one that makes sure it 's operating at it max capacity so that production is sufficient enough. Marx’s even states in alienation and exploitation that individuals, as well as the capitalist themselves, are in a way robotic because of the work they do. The reason that the worker tend to become robotic in the capitalistic system is because “ . . . the capitalist system of mass production kills the creative spirit, workers cannot find satisfaction in their labor and are therefore