Week 12 Response

In Five Gadgets That Were Killed by the Cell phone, is an article that talks about interesting things that are included in it. Originally cell phones were used to call back and forth, that is all that they did. In today’s society cell phones do so much more. They are able to plan out your day, have a camera, a phone, an MP3 player, and more. Today there are phones that can connect you to the internet in seconds. Phones can do virtually anything and who knows where it is going to end. People are connected to their cell phone so much that some cannot even function without them. There are even 8 year olds who have cell phones. The thing is why is it nessisary for a young child who cannot even be left alone need a cell phone. I think that this is only a way to allow children grow up faster. Parents can monitor what their child is doing to an extent but giving them this opportunity in the first place is only letting them feel as if they are older and more mature than they really are. There is no reversing this either, you cannot just take away the phone when the kid does something back and expect them to go back to how they were before. Cell phones are taking over the world today, it used to be rare to have a cell phone, but now if you meet someone without a cell phone it is amazing. This article is something that shows how dependent the world can become on just one thing, and it is only a matter of time before there is something that we become dependent on and are no longer able to produce it.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/five-gadget-whi.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp