Summary Of Not So Fast By John Freeman

John Freeman wrote an essay called “Not so Fast” and in his essay he explains his different options about modern technology and how he feels about these changes in our world. He describes how fast our modern world is changing and how technology speeds our learning process. The three main points to his essay are speed matters, the physical world matters, and context matters. Although communication and more is becoming a simpler task, I agree with Freeman that technology is becoming out of control because it has taken over some aspects of life and the environment is becoming less important to the U.S. The one and only time I have baby-sat in my life was about a year ago for a family friend’s, kids. The older of the two boys was about 5 or 6 years old and the entire time I was there babysitting, the boy was playing and watching movies on the family’s I-pad. Back in the day, there would have been no kids at that age playing on an I-pad. That proves that technology is growing and becoming a little out of control.

He states that there are a lot of technologies that would work with extreme rapidity but it is too dangerous for us to use them. Freeman also states “We need to protect the finite well of our attention if we care about our relationships” (42). That meaning that we will start to lose the relationships that we have with people if we don’t have limits on the attention that we spend on technology. Another point that Freeman makes is that speed used to convey urgency; but now we somehow think the meaning is efficiency. But back in the day when horses were used to get places, the meaning of speed was “to go