The Giver By Lois Lowy: Is Technology Moving Too Fast?

Many people think about the pros and cons of technology. Do you think that cell phones have taken too much control over us? Do you think that technology is moving too fast? Are you often distracted by the fact that you are too addicted to technology and are concerned about it? There are many issues with technology in both: the book called “The Giver” by Lois Lowry and in real life. Think: Is technology moving too fast and controlling our minds to much? In the novel "The Giver" and in real life many people all over the world spread the word that technology is bad for our society.

In the Giver people use technology a lot and everyone is equal. For example when Jonas is disobeying the rules, a siren shouted through the entire community “Attention,

this Is a reminder to male elevens that objects are not to be removed from the recreation area and that snacks are meant to be eaten not hoarded” (Lowry 23) also “All private ceremonies are recorded, they’re in the hall of closed records.” (Lowry 147), proving that technology is invasive to privacy. So overall, technology has a bad effect on the society in the book.

While Technology can be bad in the book, it is the same in real life. There are many issues with technology such as that it is moving way too fast, and that people become too addicted to it. People say all over the world that “we have depressed people and people under tremendous pressure to create, to keep up, and to try every method not to be eliminated by technology” (citation needed). Also it's that “We all find ourselves increasingly FORCED to spend otherwise productive money making time and resources to constantly update our IT tools and the knowledge it takes to manipulate them.” (Citation needed). So overall technology is a very important in life and it still (and in the future) impacting us today.

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People all over find themselves too addicted to their emails on their cell phones. For example a “recent survey found that 55 percent of workers reported checking their email after 11 p.m. — and 6 percent reported checking email while they or their spouse were in labor. (One of the authors of this article admits to falling into this 6 percent.)” (citation needed) According to the video on Washington post the increase from data increased from 7% to 32%. That is a 450% increase overall, proving that technology is affecting us a lot. Technology has significantly increased our wants and needs

Technology does have its goods and its bads. While it can be useful, it can be harmful as well in both the book and in real life. Our lives would differ a lot without it. It can be addicting and use a lot of resources. However this is opinionated. Here is just a point that technology does more harm than good.

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