Dangers of Too Much Technology

Introduction

From the picture, we can analyze that with the development of the iPod, consumers could now take thousands of songs with them and the contents of the iPod could be arranged through dedicated playlists that could be amended while on the move or played at random in the shuffle mode. The iPod permitted users to fine-tune their relationship to the environment and themselves through the continual adjusting of their musical choice. It also enabled users to stream their own personalized radio channels with content downloaded from the Internet or to listen to talking books. Users could access a wide range of media; thus, the iPod represents the next stage of consumer culture, one in which users seek out individualized forms of consumption to be accessed when and where they desire.

By 2007, over 50 percent of Western urban citizens were able to privatize their environment through the use of MP3 technology—primarily through the use of MP3 players (including those embedded in mobile phones) and also on Apple iPods. The iPod itself had spawned a whole commercial ecosystem of over four thousand accessories made specifically to accompany its use at home, in the automobile, or on the person, according to a 2007 Apple press release. The iPod appears to be the first cultural icon of the twenty-first century; it is symbolic of a culture in which communication technologies are increasingly used to control and manage the daily experience of users in multifaceted ways. It is a culture in which the privatizing impulse in Western culture has come to a state of maturity.

Description and Analysis

Technology is a tool that facilitated the resolution of various issues surrounding the human being, from birth through a simple light bulb to the computer and the internet. Technology through the ages has been replacing the labor force, invaded communities and brought great benefits but also repercussions affecting mostly adolescents. In Venezuela, the technology has brought advances in various aspects, to the point that teens use it as a fad. He who does not have a late model phone is not in fashion. Also this has come to the point of invading the spaces of the various cultural communities, replaced books, mental calculations and therefore today's teens are not able to perform a calculation without using a calculator or do research in a book Many students do not know located in a workbook.

In today's world, municipal technology or technological devices such as MP3, MP4, telephone and others are the most sought after by young people and for them it is the fashion lead to the exploitation of young parents and those who do not have resources to these devices have stolen many times just to be in fashion or simply load an electronic apparatus, and pretend something is not. This was referring, which are increasingly more young people take technology as his only hobby and the only way to resolve student issues such as the Internet. Or the iPod, or computer, to activate the orders ...