How Does Technology Affect Work
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Technological Advances
In the article "introduction" to Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan, he talks about how the more advanced technology becomes the more it interacts with the central nervous system. Various media already affect our senses and our nerves. For example, when the President talked about violence being shown on televisions in America; then he went to Hollywood to talk with the producers about what they aired on television and what affects it may have on our teenagers. He indicated that the idea of violence in the schools might be due to the violence being shown on televisions. Dennet believes "when the mind is exposed to new concepts it takes on a new way of thinking, developing an openness to change". This may be the reason for the behavioral change in a mouse as reported by Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media. According to McLuhan, "a small mouse, which presumably had been watching television, attacked a little girl and her full-grown cat." This incident indicates that there is definitely a change that is taking place. But I ask, what change is taking place in technology and how is it affecting the human society? In this research paper, I shall discuss the affects of one modern technology media and how it affects human nature...