Artifact #2

In this video William Powers talks about his Hamlet's Blackberry on his book tour. One thing that I thought was the main idea of his book and talk was that he believes that technology is great for our society but we do get wrapped up in it sometimes. He believes that you need some time off-line and away from all of our technology that we use every single day. His own family turns off the internet on weekends, he thinks that this time is good for them. A reason that he thinks that it is good to get away from technology is because we, as a society, are becoming to dependent on our technological devices. Some people don't even know how to read a map because they use GPS's to get around now days. Also, we are turning into people that want everything right now which isn't always a good thing. An example of this is using paper to communicate, like letters, it is obsolete because it takes a while to get to the other person. Now days, even email is becoming to slow for us, we use instant messaging and texting more than ever because you can get a immediate response. This is also a reason that technology is evolving, which isn't a bad thing also. I agree with Mr. Powers about needing time away from online interaction because a lot of people are getting to caught up in it and it's taking away from our way of thinking and doing thing, but it is also very helpful and makes our world a better place.