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             Walking through the halls at school I sometimes think to my self; what is technology? Technology to me feels like a ticking time bomb, just waiting to go off at the right moment. How do we benefit from it? Are you sure were not slowly killing our selves in a would be perfect, but not perfect society? Is the time we spend to make our every day lives easier with technology. Not making our every day lives shorter.
             I sit down at my computer to explore the wonders of the Internet. It's great to have all the power just by the click of a button. The society of today has created this masterpiece of technology that you would think is totally for your benefit. The Internet is a strictly toy and a work companion, but is it? You would like to think you're on top of the world. You're just a drone clicking here, reading there, following instructions. You begin to do what ever the computer tells you. This reminds me of the society in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. They all follow the rules. Almost none of them try to think on their own. They are drones and it has ruined their lives in my opinion. This scares me when I think about it because that's the way the world is heading.
             I bet 19 out of 20 people in this day and age own a computer, video game, or a TV. I know I do. While you are sitting down indulging your self in one of the many technological advances in our world, have you ever stopped to think about reading a book? Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. If we stop reading books could we turn out to be like the society in Fahrenheit 451. Do you want to become a brain dead society? A group of people who let technology control their life. I know I don't. Ever since the beginning of time people have sought to communicate with written symbols. Now however technology is beginning to take over and we are changing many years of tradition.
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