Life Without Technology
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Life without technology…
Isn’t really a life at all because nowadays technology is life.
Why chat in person when I can chat online?
After all, I have more friends on Facebook than I do in “real life.”
Our world is so digital.
Critical thinking is no longer a necessity.
Reality is now confined in an
Eighty inch by forty inch HD TV.
We can’t see.
We are blinded by the light that comes from our phones.
A home
Is now just a button we press
To escape the mess of a
Multi-tasking establishment.
We walk past one another
As if human interaction is
Outdated,
Overrated.
140 spaces,
Our updated statuses have drowned out the
Muttered sounds of different conversations.
It’s as if we’ve been chipped
And had our hearts ripped out
And replaced by different bits
And pieces of animatronic gears.
I fear that we will never hear
The rustling of papers and leaves
Because we’ll be too busy typing away
At our keyboards.
Before, children used to play outside,
In the snow and in the sand.
But now, kids half my age
Do those same things on an iPad.
Kids will never learn to surf the ocean waves
Because they’re too busy surfing from page to page
On the World Wide Web.
It’s like a spider that has injected its venom,
A virus that’s crawling its way to our
God-given hard drive.
We have forgotten what it feels like to live our lives offline.
We can no longer recall
The sound of shoes against the asphalt
Because by the time we’re out the door,
We’re already listening to our iPods.
We only converse with Siri:
“Speak to text”, “search the web”, “can you give me directions?”
I’ve shunned both Mother Nature and Father Time in the face.
But I can just face-time to replace
The old-fashioned face-to-face social interaction
That my generation had erased from their lives.
We can no longer recall
The sound of cracking branches before they fall
Because we’re too busy watching videos go viral.
We tweet one another
More than baby birds tweet for their mothers.
We stare into Windows and communicate through Apple
Instead of staring out of windows and giving each other apples.
The mornings have gotten dark and cold,
But we’re too distracted by the apps on our phones.
We’re mesmerized, hypnotized, satisfied
By a two-by-four block of metal that sits in our pockets.
We settle for something that cannot love us back.
Emotion is the one thing that technology lacks.
As humans, we were born with this quality,
But our brains have been programmed to believe
That technology is our reality.
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sflynn
Hello!!
Would the writer of this poem be willing to contact me? My name is Sarah Flynn, and I work for a publishing company, and we would really like to use this poem in one of our books. Please respond here if you are interested and we can go from there!
Thank you!
Sarah Flynn
McGraw Hill Education
tiyalford
I can't believe anyone would write such a thing. It's hard to imagine modern life without technology because without it we wouldn't even be able to read this poem, although I love reading real books, I also love chatting with friends when they are hundreds of kilometers away, I love keeping up with the news, I love seeing people in video chats, and without technology that would be impossible. Still, you have to look for the positives in everything, don't you?
Frozone
Oh also all of this is so untrue and technology rules, and so does Obama.
BrightSpace
Hello, my name is Lily Severson and I am a student at Northwest High School in Waukee, IA. I am planning to compete in the Iowa High School Speech Association's Individual Event competition, in which students have the ability to practice and polish their communication skills through the art of oral interpretation, acting, public speaking, and writing. I am contacting you to request the use of Life Without Technology for the event of Program of Oral Interpretation. This piece would be helpful to my success in the category as it shows a well-needed perspective of the dangers of technology. Thank you for considering.