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“An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness”by Tara Parker-Pope
Main claim:
• Technology can become addictive and change human behavior for the worse.
Evidence:
• Expert opinions.• Academic studies.• Analogy .
Analogy: technology abuse is like an eating disorder.
• How is technology like food?
• How is it different from food?
Analogy: technology abuse is like an eating disorder.
• What are the benefits of this analogy?
• What are the limits of this analogy?
Analogies
• What else is technology like?
• Create a list of other possible analogies that describe your relationship to technology, that describe the role of technology in your life. Is it like food? Like cigarettes? Like ……….?
Parker-Pope’s Conclusion
• We must develop a healthy relationship with technology.
• Uses student’s words to demonstrate our dependence on technology.
Your conclusion #1:
• How does Parker-Pope help you think about the role of technology in your life?
• Write a few lines about this.
Your conclusion #2
• How does your experience conflict with Parker-Pope’s account?
• Write a few lines about this.
Limits of Parker-Pope’s Argument
• False analogy?
• Hasty generalization?
Getting SmarterBy Jamais Cascio
Main claim:
• Humans survive by evolving in response to environmental changes.
Historical Evidence
• The volcanic eruption in Sumatra 74,000 years ago along with other envirnmental changes made the world less predictable.
• Humans survived by “getting smarter” • William Calvin, neurophysicist.
Contemporary situation
• Entering period of likely environmental unstability: population growth, resource limits, illness, technological developments.
• We will survive by getting smarter.
Analogy
• Changes today are similar to changes from 74,000 years ago.
• What is true about this analogy?
• What is false?
Evidence
• Analogy• Contemporary examples of technologies that make us smarter, organized from most to least believable: Twitter, drugs, artificial intelligence.
• Expert opinion.
Conclusion
• The future will be “banal.”• To prepare for the future, we must understand how complex systems work.
Your conclusion #1
• How does Cascio help you think about the role of technology in your life?
Your conclusion #2
• In what ways does your experience conflict with Cascio’s argument?
• Write a few lines about this.
Limits of Cascio’s argument
• False analogy: Fails to recognize human role in creation of problems today, a factor that makes the current situation different from the situation of 74,000 years ago.
• Reliance on human *intellectual* solutions to problems created, in many ways, by reliance on human intellect.
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