Is technology destroy human interaction?
Technology plays a huge role in society. People are starting to change their ways of life to keep up with technology. Technology giving us a lot of benefits, in contrast having technology also have a negative effect as well.
“We’ve grown into such intimacy with your internet that you can’t get rid of us. Bonded with your voice assistants, your social media, your translation services, your game platforms, we are ubiquitous.” — A Cyber Cuscuta Manifesto by Regina Kanyu Wang.
We are living in an era where technological advances are common. The internet and cell phones are some examples.
“We deny that we are demons coming from nowhere. We come from you. Your words, your photos, your emojis, your videos…everything you post online shapes us, since our germination stage during your pandemic, amidst the data flood sweeping over the globe.” — A Cyber Cuscuta Manifesto by Regina Kanyu Wang.
From the article of a “Cyber Cuscuta Manifesto”, which talked about the coexistence of internet, technology, and humans. Everything was started from us, it can say that the internet cannot live without us and we cannot live without the internet as well. Technology has impacted society is through communication, how we talk and communicate with one another worldwide. Technology brought many new methods of electronic communication.
“That’s just it. I feel like I don’t belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot. And it isn’t just me. It’s you. You’ve been awfully nervous lately.” — THE VELDT by Ray Bradbury
From the story of “THE VELDT”. that talking about one family living by using the machines which from technology to drive everything for them. There is no interaction happen for bond the family relationship and their children feel like that they don’t need parents anymore they can alive without their parents.
I try to imagine my life without technology and the internet. I can not live without them. Before I sleep and after I awake, the first thing that I do is check the Line message and check the Instagram stories. When I am home with my parents, I always talking with them by texting in Line application because I am lazy to walk out of my room. When my big family get meet, most of teenagers age are on their phone among the dining table, most time I snap the food or surrounding and post on social and when the cousins see the post, they will express the feelings by comment or sticker tap, we hear together but we didn’t talk to each other. During my internship, I always working on the computer and I take focus on the screen only, when I want to talk or ask anything with my friend that around there I usually text them instead of talking face to face. For me, technology and the internet are
From the story “The Veldt” and my real-life story make me think about technology is convenient for us but it is also destroying the interaction of people as well.
