As a lover of technology, I both indulge in the fascinating things that new & old technologies provide. I simultaneously accept that I am susceptible to the influence of these mechanical devices.In understanding what the television does and provides for not only individuals but for cultures, some technologies have permanently affected day to day interactions between people. In many cases in history, advancing technologies provide new ways of doing things that we already done, like PDAs taking over planners, emails replacing mail, and iPods replacing CD& cassette players. In other cases, it turns out that the advancing new “toys” tend to consume us, changing our norms and affecting characteristics that make us human. We see nonsocial people corrupted by the devices to do the social interactions needed to be done in person, people who are well too engrossed into games to separate real from fantasy, and we see people injured and hampered by technologies that distract from real issues (i.e texting while driving). The impact of television that is discussed in the article reflects upon TV’s impact in our culture, how much content we receive that is critical (news, weather, traffic, politics) for our understand of the world, and also content that keeps us stuck there (shows, sports, music). Historical moments are instilled via these images (moon landing, 9/11, Olympics) and we as a unified culture are undoubtedly affected forever.

The discussion of Utopian ideals that were foreseen in the past are big factors that play into how we use technology. The ideas of computers and entities that act as vessels to perform difficulty labor is a very dated idea, but only recently (past few decades) has the technology emerged that allowed people to program said labors into technology today. But even today, we have bigger dreams for technology than can be understood by today’s technology. We see movies such as Star Wars and Tron that depict complete world engulfed by technology living organically, and these fictional depictions end up influencing how we want technologies to advance. Everyone has visions for how much technology will impact our future and the utopian ideals for technology need to be realized at the human levels. Technology is only a means of doing something easier than what is already done, and for that we need to fix the problems ourselves before telling a technology to repeat our successes.