Technology Negative Effects On Society

Have you ever thought about the negative effects of technology on our society? Although technology has done good for society in many ways, it has also had some negative effects on society due to the creation of false realities, the decline of an individual’s own knowledge, and the deterioration of human interaction. Till this very day the government has been a manipulator using technology as a widespread brainwashing tool on citizens. The government always has absolute agenda of misleading the public on a certain perspective. Look at the use of propaganda during both world wars. Weiser states that “ propaganda campaigns have been successful in keeping the general public from recognizing the truth. When this reality is presented to the average

Just like in Philip K. Dick’s book “Ubik” Jory creates a false reality in half-life. Similar to the government Jory is the manipulator in the book and the Runciter Associates team represents the citizens. In the book Jory states “I constructed a tangible reality corresponding to their minimal

Brian Primack, director of the University of Pittsburgh proclaims “We are inherently social creatures, but modern life tends to compartmentalise us instead of bringing us together.” Nowadays people spend too much time glued to technological devices such as phones, computers, video games, etc… to the point that it basically replaces our social life. Elizabeth Miller suggest that “ It's possible that young adults who initially feel isolated turn to social media. Or that their increase use of social media somehow led to feeling isolated from the real world.” Either way social media has became a scapegoat to a world of isolation to relieve themselves of lonilness. In the book “Ubik”, Philp K Dick created Pat, who was jealous of Joe and his love for another woman Wendy, who was actually a cyborg. Joe paid so much attention to her that it led Pat to a feeling of contempt making her take on a false role of killing all members of Runciter Associates. And the lack of attention Joe and the others gave her made her isolate herself from the team. We shouldn’t focus our attention on technology so much that we settle for anything to fill a void of possessing something we don't have or get out of the real world to the point where we isolate everyone and everything around