For my project, I might want to discuss whether or not we as a global society are digressing back to a time of control. Back before the enlightenment era, people were controlled by feudal lords or slave owners and monarchies that actually had power. There has been so much progress  from those times and now technology is bringing us back. People will want to have control over others and impose their feelings on others. While reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, I kept thinking about how people in our time are constantly coming out with new technology to “make our lives easier” and facilitate or try to facilitate every facet of our lives. I’m not against technology helping people, but it seems like the technologies are making it so that people don’t have anything that isn’t connected to them. On page 80, Carr mentioned something about future technological development being able to measure joy or sadness and simulate or impose machine made feelings into peoples brains. This idea scared me and led me to think about how there is too much technology and there’s too much of it around now to the extent that people are being controlled by it. I’m not completely sure how i’m going to develop this.

A Possible development could be me talking about the nature of people and wanting to control things… maybe and how it relates to the technologies that are developed today like tracking devices online…