Topic > Technology and Human Connection: A Double Edged Sword

In this YouTube video it describes how our current generation is so involved in current technology or current style and it is our ability to communicate that is decreasing. The way we communicate through our tweets and online chats has become a barrier separating us from reality; create a new image. He describes technology as an illusion and when we look up from our screens we are filled with confusion, thus describing that our focus on the fantasy of the Internet clouds our judgment of what reality is. Mr Turk argues that with increasing technology we tend to focus more on our personal appearance and therefore become self-conscious about everything, with information disseminated so widely to the general public that it is no wonder if we look at ourselves and compare them to some unknown unknown. It also brings up the idea of ​​online chat, in our current world we tend to talk through a screen rather than face to face. Speaking through a screen, the same emotions expressed through emojis do not correspond to the expression of the real person. These Internet and online social networks can bring the community together more easily, but in doing so we lose something much more important; far more important than efficiency or even simplicity, are the emotions shared between the people we lose. The connection that helps bring people closer, the feelings and sympathy we get when the conversation starts, the emotions of sadness when chaos comes, the feeling of happiness when your friend gets married, these emotions we tend to leave behind for for the sake of progress, for the sake of improvement. Which in the end we ask ourselves: is it really worth it? Losing all those emotions that consider us human, when at the end of all this "progress" what remains inside is nothing