Hypertechnology

Imagine you are sitting right next to your friend and both of you are texting one another instead of talking. How pathetic is that? Even though you are with company at the same time, you are isolated. Today we are living in a pseudo-modern world, since technology has abolished meaning in life.
In pseudo-modernism, authors have little purpose.
In Dr. Kirby’s article he states that, “In all of this, the ‘viewer’ feels powerful and is indeed necessary; the ‘author’ as traditionally understood is either relegated to the status of the one who sets the parameters within which others operate, or becomes simply irrelevant, unknown, sidelined; and the ‘text’ is characterized both by its hyper-ephemerality and by its instability.” Writers have no purpose in dictating their own work. The writer of a show is invisible to outsiders. Shows such as American Idol are entirely dependant on the voting of viewers. The creator of the show does not get to pick the winner, only the voters who text in their vote. An essay must present an argument to be worth reading and analyzing. Reality shows, on the other hand, bring no thought provoking conversations. Shows and authors become void of meaning. The writer becomes a waiter asking the ‘customer’ if they would like beef or chicken. The waiter cannot control what the customer orders, in the same way, that a writer cannot control the outcome of his/her own work. Ironically, technology was meant to improve our society intellectually, when in actuality, it has diminished our ability to expand our knowledge.

Where does all of this leave us? Is technology more evil than good?