SOCIETY IS DEAD

SOCIETY IS DEAD

1. MAIN MESSAGE

   • Society changes due to technology

2. LINK WITH OTHER FIELDS

   • Text time: opinion column
     • Use of ‘I’
     • Inverted triangle
       • Most to least important information
     • Personal tone
     • Use of anecdotes
   • Globalisation
     • Advantages
       • Access to new cultures and markets
         • Communication beyond the borders
           • Possibility of war decreases
     • Disadvantages
       • Environmental harm
         • Loss of local harm
           • Exploits poorer labour markets
   • Human ingenuity
     • Human interaction and technology
       • Simon Sinek
         • Technology
           • technology is an addiction that makes your life worse in various aspects such as not having serious relationships or distancing yourself from reality
         • Environment
           • “ They can’t trust their willpower to not use the phone but if there’s no phone then there isn’t any temptation and you enjoy the world.”

3. Evidence

   • “ Walk through an airport in the United States these days and you will see person after person gliding through the social either as if on autopilot” —> human interaction
     • “ I was visiting New York last week and noticed something I’d never thought I’d say about the city” —> Globalisaton
       • “Now I have my iTunes in my iMac from my iPod in my iWorld” —> human interaction
         • “ Manhattan's downtown is now a Disney-like string of malls, riverside parks and pretty upper-middle-class villages. But there was something else.And as I looked across the throngs on the pavements, began to see why.” —> Technology and human interaction
           • “ Get on a subway and you're surrounded by a bunch of Stepford commuters staring into mid-space as if anaesthetised by technology.” —> Technology and Human interaction