I found the the reading “The Medium is the Massage” by Marshall Mcluhan very interesting. This passage was written decades ago when technology was not nearly as developed as it is today yet the pros and cons of the uprising technology at the time were already visible. Mcluhan speaks about the pros and cons of technology in his time period as if he was talking about  technology today. Everything he elaborates about concerning  technology during the 60’s is still relevant to what we are going through today.

In the reading It states “Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s need to know. The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions- the patterns of mechanistic technologies- are very seriously threatened by new methods of instantaneous electric information retrieval, by the electrically computerized dossier bank-that one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early “mistakes”.
Technology has evolved tremendously after this passage was written. On the other hand, this statement clearly explains our society. We live in a world where we are completely exposed to each other. We now have social media, television, radio, and music that all expose who we are, our thoughts, and beliefs. Facebook, Twitter, instagram, Snapchat and many other social media platforms lets us willingly expose ourselves to the world. Many of us do not think about the consequences that can be brought upon us if we expose ourselves too much. Today you even have to be careful with what is out there about yourself because before even getting to an interview, the employer may already know more about you than what is on your resume. Today people lose their jobs and get their career ruined because of the exaggerated amount of information available to the public’s finger tip that is out there.

I agree with Mcluhan, that we are losing our privacy, and once we do there is no turning back. Once the information is out there it will continue to be out there forever. People are becoming so accustomed to knowing so much more about  a person that we willingly expose it out to the world, and there are just somethings that should be kept to ourselves. Technology has evolved so much that it has become beyond our control. Now police officers are getting exposed about their police brutality unwillingly. Not long ago a young female doctor lost her job because she was recorded arguing with an uber driver, it was posted online, millions of people saw it, and her employer decided to let her go. Technology keeps evolving and invading our lives.