i think this essay, for me, might just be a catharsis to the entire topic we’ve studied all semester. first of all, i’m taking zinsser’s advice of not typing formally just to please a reader. so i’m not going to make any capital letters in this page. for some reason, i think this page will have more effect if it is all lowercase letters.

my idea, for this essay, is to prove the point i have been thinking all semester – WHAT DOES IT MATTER!?!?!?!

by the end of the day, the situation is the same. americans rely on technology. we rely on our phones, television, and the internet, for media, communication, and functioning. when hurricane sandy hit – people went crazy! we couldn’t function because we didn’t have access to electricity! we can’t simply pick ourselves up out of our twenty-first century brains and go back to what it was like before iPods, iPads, computers, televisions, etc. i don’t really see the point of discussing what it does to our brains – whether it is making us smarter or dumber, more competent or less competent, more active or more passive ….either way the situation will remain the same. i don’t think discussing all the reasons why technology has advanced so greatly, what a big impact it makes on our lives, and other things we have discussed serve a purpose. sure, it’s good to be introspective and think about what is important to people, and what we spend our time doing, but none of this discussion seems to amount to anything.

none of this discussion leads to any action, any intervention, because as i have already just stated….americans are already reliant on technology. and that is the crucial point. we are dependant on technology. i mean, i’m doing an english assignment on a “blog” on a computer… i’m not going back to pen and paper anytime soon. and as much as i talk about the why’s and how’s of how this is, the effects this has on my brain and my development and the advancement of humans in general…. well that fact’s not going to change.

i’ll still be typing on this computer. and maybe in a few years, i’ll be typing on some new kind of gadget-type-thing. and no matter what we say about it, that’s just what’s going to happen anyway.