Technology, good or bad?
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You like using the internet, social media, and most of all your smart phone don't you? What if you knew, the higher it advances, the more health risks do too? Feed, by M. T. Anderson, it’s said, either way, technology in today’s generation is advancing highly, adding negative health affects, and blindness to reality. In Feed, the main character Titus, a teenager with the feed, and lives with suggestions, such as advertisements from the feed. Titus meets a girl named Violet, who doesn’t agree with the feed. During the novel, Titus and Violet go through a traumatic experience due to the feed. With that, Titus goes on to discover what the feed really means. In today’s society we see not what is given to us but what we are presented, and what we are presented is technology given to us by government. We are given new technology without any knowledge of the effects or danger behind it, not knowing if this new technology is linking us to a new kind of health issue or anything harmful to the human society. However, we use one of the major technology advances in todays day all day, and everyday. We don’t think about how the long-term effects can harm us or if we can get any kind of health exposures due to this. Without thinking about the the positives of advancing technology in todays day, technology wouldn’t be as great as we think it is if we need to worry about it and how it affects our health.
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Technology is advancing highly whether we notice it or not. When we were five, we would want things as toys to play with, the best kind. We got to ask for the toys on special holidays, sometimes if we got lucky our parents would feel like buying us one, we got it. Back then, toys were our best gadgets, the thought of new and improved toys was a utopian dream. However our generation grew to be advanced and so did the fun. The new types of fun that started becoming trendy were and still are the increase of technology. Technology has always been around, yet, it has not always been as advanced. Over the years, we have excreted more technology with new ways of accessing it. An example being, before we would need to go out to rent movies at a Blockbuster, now, we can just rent movies on Netflix, no physical movement needed. “Today: Renting a Movie through Netflix or iTunes without ever having to leave the room. Then: You'd actually have to get up, go outside and go to Blockbuster where you'd peruse movies and rent them for five bucks and then return them before they would charge late fees that cost more than the rental fee”(Luongo). According to A 90’s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now movement was needed in the past to be able to rent a movie, as in todays generation the form of accessing a movie is as easy as a click of a few buttons and a room. Same as in Feed, their feed is like our Netflix, they don’t need to go anywhere for what they want to see or hear. “All of the feedcasts and the instant news, that’s on there, so there’s all the entertainment…”(Anderson, 48). Anderson states that because of the feed there’s no need for anything else, the feed has it all and that’s all they need. The Feed is considered the new cool thing and with that you do not need any other technology. The Feed is the best and it's all in your brain. Theres no need for any physical movement with this.
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Increasing our technology is increasing our health risks. Being worried about how the feed and Netflix were a product of a new and improved kind of technology, one other worry of our increasing technology is our cellphones. We grow up wanting the latest fashion trend, whether is clothes, shoes, cars, and more, not knowing if this trend will be the next cause of a health issue. The most targeted audience is children of the society, catching their attention. The advertisers make sure their ads catch a young audience therefore the children can persuade their parents to buy the new products. Today, one major health effect giving America a red flashing light is cancer, due to the cellphones and their radiation. According to Cell Phones and Cancer, children have a higher risk of getting cancer than adults do, “In theory, children have the potential to be at greater risk than adults for developing brain cancer from cell phones. Their nervous systems are still developing and therefore more vulnerable to factors that may cause cancer”(National Cancer Institute). Technology is causing a higher health risk for these children to develop cancer due to the radiation and the vulnerability. In Feed, Violet, was one of the brightest characters against the technology being presented. She was the only of friends who believed the feed was causing the lesions they would get on their skin, such as our cellphones would cause us cancer. ”Look at us! You don’t have the feed! You are feed! You’re being eaten! You’re raised for food! Look a what you’ve made yourselves!”(Anderson, 202). Violet is getting emotional about her friends not understanding how their technology is affecting them and their health. They don’t see what the feed is doing to them and their skin. “Cellphones and Cancer Risk”, and Feed both have in common is technology is becoming higher improved, and both causing higher risk of health issues due to problems with the technology, or the radiation. The Feeds technology blinds them to the real world and causes.
Due to the blindness of the technology, people don’t pay attention to the outside world. They are blinded to the effects of the technology because technology is said to be what is the best thing that’s happened to the world. Or is it? The blindness causes them not to see these health issues, as well as not knowing how it’s affecting them outside of those issues. Blindness meaning, people knowing the effects of a cellphone causing cancer and what to do to prevent it. People know that by preventing this risk, they could live longer, such as in Feed if they put their feed aside; they understand what is really causing those skin lesions. As said in the article, called 10 Things You Can Do To Reduce The Cancer Risk From Cellphones, “While talking on your cell phone, try to keep the cell phone away from your body as much as possible. The amplitude of the electromagnetic field (radiation) is one-fourth the strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet. Whenever possible, use the speaker-phone mode or a wired headset (not a Bluetooth)”(Safer Zone Post). According to this article, it is possible to prevent getting this radiation caused by cellphones, however people decide to still use their phones without a wired headset. They are so fascinated about the technology and how it works that most don’t understand the radiation is causing the children and teenage generation of this day to be higher exposed to cancer. As in Feed, the feed is causing the children to get their lesions, but since it’s the new popular thing, it’s blinding them to what’s really happening to them. “This is obvious! Obvious! We’re playing games and our skin is falling off!”(Anderson, 201). Violet shows how upset she is watching her friends being blinded by the lesions thinking it’s a fashion trend, when in reality the lesions are causing their skin to fall off. Connecting the article 10 Things You Can Do To Reduce The Cancer Risk From Cellphones and Feed shows how because they technology is so popular they continue to use the technology and instead of acting upon fixing the problem. Blinded by the effects, people and the children in feed continue using their technology and do not decide to fix it. Leaving them with health risk factors as problems in their lives.
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Thinking about all this technology that is given to us, we think about how we can use it and how it is bettering our future, when in reality should we be thinking about how its improving our generation or causing us harm. I believe this dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson gives us a thought about how we as people are blinded by the technology and health risks with the price tag. We see the examples with the lesions in feed and how the teenagers were blinded due to the fact the feed was the “trend” and the lesions were the newest trend. When buying new technology people research the cautions and warnings about the product. Besides how do we become educated about this information if we don’t do it ourselves? The government isn’t going to tell us, they don’t want to lose business, the only way we stay educated is if we take care of ourselves. Our health is one of the most important things in our lifetime. With this being said, is technology really worth us getting lesions on our skin such as these teens in feed, or to us dying from the radiation causing cancer in cellphones? A little something we should all think about before we think technology is the best that’s ever happened to us. Maybe we should read or research these things before buying technology with a possible disease link to it.
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Works Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
Luongo, Nikki. "A 90s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
"Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute." Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
"Safer Phone Zone." Safer Phone Zone 10 Things You Can Do to Reduce the Cancer Risk from Cell Phones Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
Luongo, Nikki. "A 90s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
"Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute." Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
"Safer Phone Zone." Safer Phone Zone 10 Things You Can Do to Reduce the Cancer Risk from Cell Phones Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
Technology, good or bad? (Draft 2)
Is our technology blinding us and causing health effects to our society? Feed, by M. T. Anderson, it’s said, either way, technology in today’s generation is advancing highly, adding negative health affects, and blindness to reality. In Feed, the main character Titus, a teenager with the feed, and lives with suggestions, such as advertisements from the feed. Titus meets a girl named Violet, who doesn’t agree with the feed. During the novel, Titus and Violet go through a traumatic experience due to the feed. With that, Titus goes on to discover what the feed really means. In today’s society we see not what is given to us but what we are presented, and what we are presented is technology given to us by government. We are given new technology without any knowledge of the effects or danger behind it, not knowing if this new technology is linking us to a new kind of health issue or anything harmful to the human society. We don’t think about how the long-term effects can harm us or if we can get any kind of health exposures due to this. Technology wouldn’t be as great as we think it is if we need to worry about it and how it affects our health.
Technology is advancing highly whether we notice it or not. When we were five, we would want things such as toys to play with, the best kind. We got to ask for the toys on special holidays, sometimes if we got lucky our parents would feel like buying us one, we got it. The toys were the best things we could get as a child, yet our generation grew to be advanced and so did the fun. The new types of fun that started becoming trendy were and still are the increase of technology. Technology has always been around, however, it has not always been as advanced. Over the years, we have excreted more technology with new ways of accessing it. An example being how before, we would need to go out to rent movies at a Blockbuster, now a days we can just rent movies on Netflix, no physical movement needed. “Today: Renting a Movie through Netflix or iTunes without ever having to leave the room. Then: You'd actually have to get up, go outside and go to Blockbuster where you'd peruse movies and rent them for five bucks and then return them before they would charge late fees that cost more than the rental fee”(Luongo). According to “A 90’s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now” movement was needed in the past to be able to rent a movie, as in todays generation the form of accessing a movie is as easy as a click of a few buttons and a room. Same as in Feed, their feed is like our Netflix, they don’t need to go anywhere for what they want to see or hear. “All of the feedcasts and the instant news, that’s on there, so there’s all the entertainment…”(Anderson, 48). Anderson states that because of the feed there’s no need for anything else, the feed has it all and that’s all they need. There’s no need for real entertainment or movement. |
Increasing our technology is increasing our health risks. Being worried about how the feed and Netflix were a product of a new and improved kind of technology, one other worry of our increasing technology is our cellphones. We grow up wanting the latest fashion trend, not knowing if this trend will be the next cause of a health issue. The most targeted audience is children of the society, catching their attention to notify their parents of the new trend being wanted. Today, one major health effect giving America a red flashing light is cancer, due to the cellphones and their radiation. According to “Cell Phones and Cancer”, children have a higher risk of getting cancer than adults do, “In theory, children have the potential to be at greater risk than adults for developing brain cancer from cell phones. Their nervous systems are still developing and therefore more vulnerable to factors that may cause cancer”(National Cancer Institute). Technology is causing a higher health risk for these children to develop cancer due to the radiation and the vulnerability. In Feed, Violet, was one of the brightest characters against the technology being presented. She was the only of friends who believed the feed was causing the lesions they would get on their skin, such as our cellphones would cause us cancer. ”Look at us! You don’t have the feed! You are feed! You’re being eaten! You’re raised for food! Look a what you’ve made yourselves!”(Anderson, 202). Violet is getting emotional about her friends not understanding how their technology is affecting them and their health. They don’t see what the feed is doing to them and their skin. “Cellphones and Cancer Risk”, and Feed both have in common is technology is becoming higher improved, and both causing higher risk of health issues due to problems with the technology, or the radiation.
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Due to the blindness of the technology people don’t pay attention to the outside world. They are blinded to the effects of the technology, because technology is said to be what is the best thing that’s happened to the world. The blindness causes them not to see these health issues, as well as not knowing how it’s affecting them outside of those issues. By blindness I mean people knowing the effects of a cellphone causing cancer and what to do to prevent it. People know that by preventing this risk, they could live longer, such as in Feed if they put their feed aside; they understand what is really causing those skin lesions. As said in the article, called “10 Things You Can Do To Reduce The Cancer Risk From Cellphones”, “While talking on your cell phone, try to keep the cell phone away from your body as much as possible. The amplitude of the electromagnetic field (radiation) is one-fourth the strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet. Whenever possible, use the speaker-phone mode or a wired headset (not a Bluetooth)”(Safer Zone Post). According to this article, it is possible to prevent getting this radiation caused by cellphones, however people decide to still use their phones without a wired headset. They are so fascinated about the technology and how it works that most don’t understand the radiation is causing the children and teenage generation of this day to be higher exposed to cancer. As in Feed, the feed is causing the children to get their lesions, but since it’s the new popular thing, it’s blinding them to what’s really happening to them. “This is obvious! Obvious! We’re playing games and our skin is falling off!”(Anderson, 201). Violet shows how upset she is watching her friends being blinded by the lesions thinking it’s a fashion trend, when in reality the lesions are causing their skin to fall off. Connecting the article “10 Things You Can Do To Reduce The Cancer Risk From Cellphones” and Feed shows how because they technology is so popular they continue to use the technology and instead of acting upon fixing the problem. Blinded by the effects, people and the children in feed continue using their technology and do not decide to fix it. Leaving them with health risk factors as problems in their lives.
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Thinking about all this technology that is given to us, we think about how we can use it and how it is bettering our future, when in reality should we be thinking about how its improving our generation or is it causing us harm. I believe this dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson gives us a thought about how we as people are blinded by the technology and its health risks that tag along with it. We see the examples with the lesions in feed and how the teenagers were blinded because of the fact the feed was the “trend” and the lesions were becoming the newest trend. When buying new technology people shouldn’t be as fascinated with it and make sure they know the effects that are brought along with it. Besides how do we become educated about this information if we don’t do it ourselves? The government isn’t going to tell us, they don’t want to lose business, the only way we stay educated is if we take care of ourselves. And our health is one of the most important things. So with this being said, is technology really worth us getting lesions on our skin such as these teens in feed, or to us dying from the radiation causing cancer in cellphones? A little something we should all think about before we think technology is the best that’s ever happened to us.
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Works Cited
1. Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
2. Luongo, Nikki. "A 90s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
3. "Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute." Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
4. "Safer Phone Zone." Safer Phone Zone 10 Things You Can Do to Reduce the Cancer Risk from Cell Phones Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
1. Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
2. Luongo, Nikki. "A 90s Kid Living in 2014: Then and Now." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 14 Jan. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
3. "Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute." Cell Phones and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
4. "Safer Phone Zone." Safer Phone Zone 10 Things You Can Do to Reduce the Cancer Risk from Cell Phones Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.
Technology, good or bad? (Draft 1)
Is our technology blinding us, or are we blinded by technology? In Feed, by M. T. Anderson, its said, either way, technology in today’s generation is advancing highly, adding more effects on our health, and highly effective to the blindness of this generation. In today’s society we see not what is given to us but what we are handed, and what we are handed are technology given to us by government. We are given new technology without any knowledge of the effects or danger behind it. Not knowing if this new technology is given, linking us to a new kind of health issues or anything harmful to the human society. We don’t think about how the long-term effects can harm us or if we can get any kind of health exposures due to this. Technology shouldn’t be as great as we think it is if we need to worry about our health and how we use it. M. T. Anderson provides us with a dystopian figure plotted novel, called Feed that gives us this kind of example.
When we were five, we would want things such as toys to play with, the best kind. We to ask for the toys on special holidays, some times if we got lucky our parents would feel like buying us one, we got it. The toys were the best things we could get as a child, yet our generation grew to be advanced and so did the fun. The new types of fun that started becoming trendy were and still are the increase of technology. And there wasn’t as much technology as there is today, compared to the 1900s. In the 1900’s things being made weren’t anything such as technology, but there were inventions that came close to technology. An example being how before, we would need to go out to rent movies at a block buster, now a days we can just rent movies on Netflix, no physical movement needed. “Today: Renting a Movie through Netflix or iTunes without ever having to leave the room. Then: You'd actually have to get up, go outside and go to Blockbuster where you'd peruse movies and rent them for five bucks and then return them before they would charge late fees that cost more than the rental fee.”(1, Huffington Post) Back then technology started increasing greatly, and started having an impact. Thinking about how the Netflix changed from getting up to renting movies, had me thinking, this can cause a health alert by thinking if we just lay in bed to watch movies, that can cause a health risk by becoming lazy and creating obesity. As in Feed, their feed is like our Netflix, they don’t need to go anywhere for what they want to see or hear. “All of the feedcasts and the instant news, that’s on there, so theres all the entertainment…”(48, Anderson) Anderson states that because of the feed there’s no need for anything else, the feed has it all and that’s all they need.
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Being worried about how the Feed and Netflix can be compared and linked to a health factor of obesity, one other worry of our increasing technology is our cellphones. We grow up wanting the latest fashion trend, not knowing if this trend will be the next cause of a health issue. The most targeted audience is children of the society, catching their attention to notify their parents of the new trend being wanted. Today, one major health affect giving America a red flashing light is cancer, due to the cellphones and their radiation. According to Huffington Post, children have a higher risk of getting cancer than adults do, “In theory, children have the potential to be at greater risk than adults for developing brain cancer from cell phones. Their nervous systems are still developing and therefore more vulnerable to factors that may cause cancer.”(1, Huffington Post) Do we ever ask ourselves; if this is affecting children is it worth it? In Feed, Violet, was one of the brightest characters against the technology being presented. She was the only of friends who believed the feed, a kind of technology presented in their world, was causing the lesions they would get on their skin, such as our cellphones would cause us cancer. ”Look at us! You don’t have the feed! You are feed! You’re being eaten! You’re raised for food! Look a what you’ve made yourselves!”(202, Anderson) Violet is getting emotional about them not understanding how their technology is affecting them and their health. They don’t see what the feed is doing to them and their skin. Huffington Post, and Feed both have in common is technology is becoming higher improved, and both causing higher risk of health issues. |
Due to the blindness of the technology people don’t pay attention to the outside world. They are blinded to the effects of the technology, because technology is said to be what is the best thing that’s happened to the world. The blindness causes them not to see these health issues, as well as not knowing how it’s affecting them outside of those issues. By blindness I mean people knowing the effects of a cellphone causing cancer and what to do to prevent it. People know that by preventing this risk, they could live longer, such as in Feed if they put their feed aside, they understand what is really causing those skin lesions. As said in the article, called Safer Zone Post, “While talking on your cell phone, try to keep the cell phone away from your body as much as possible. The amplitude of the electromagnetic field (radiation) is one fourth the strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet. Whenever possible, use the speaker-phone mode or a wired headset (not a Bluetooth).” (1, Safer Phone Zone) According to this article, it is possible to prevent getting this radiation caused by cellphones, however people decide to still use their phones without a wired headset. They are so fasicinated about the technology and how it works that most don’t understand the radiation is causing the children and teenage generation of this day to be higher exposed to cancer. As in Feed, the feed is causing the children to get their lesions, but since it’s the new popular thing, its blinding them to whats really happening to them. “This is obvious! Obvious! We’re playing games and our skin is falling off!” (201, Anderson) Violet shows how upset she is watching everyone being blinded by the leisons thinking it’s a fashion trend when in reality the lesions are causing their skin to fall off. Connecting the article from the Safer Phone Zone and Feed is showing how their blinded by the effects, the article gives them things they can do to reduce the cause and feed shows how they are playing games while their blindness to the technology is giving them reasons affecting their health
Thinking about all this technology that is given to us, we think about how we can use it and how it is bettering our future, when in reality should we be thinking about how its improving our generation or is it causing us harm. I believe this dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson gives us a thought about how we as people are blinded by the technology and its health risks that tag along with it. We see the examples with the lesions in feed and how the teenagers were blinded because of the fact the feed was the “trend” and the lesions were becoming the newest trend. When buying new technology people shouldn’t be as fascinated with it and make sure they know the effects that are brought along with it. Besides how do we become educated about this information if we don’t do it ourselves? The government isn’t going to tell us, they don’t want to lose business, the only way we stay educated is if we take care of ourselves. And our health is one of the most important things. So with this being said, is technology really worth us getting lesions on our skin such as these teens in feed, or to us dying from the radiation causing cancer in cellphones? A little something we should all think about before we think technology is the best that’s ever happened to us.