Essay about technologies, children and relationships

Some people believe that modern technologies are creating a zombie society. The Others just think that those ones people don’t even understand how the new generations technologies work. What I feel think is that sooner or later a homo sapiens 2.0 species is going to lead the world to a completely new understanding of living.

So, the first thing I believe we should do is to try to put ourselves in their shoes. By this I mean the shoes of those who have been borned with a smart phone in their hands. They, the sapiens 2.0, have a thoroughly different lifestyle than we do. They don’t know what it means having to wait for an answer for more than five minutes, for example.

That brings me to how they get on with relationships. It can be argued that those the children we see nowadays have nothing to do in common with our childhood, that they don’t spend time together as we did. It is sometimes suggested that they don’t even have friends. It goes without saying that these children spend more time with machines than with real people.

In my opinion, there are a number of arguments against this. Firstly, they undoubtedly communicate between themselves, but they do it in a different way. In fact, they are able to do it practically in real time instantaneously no matter how far they are from each other, while our ancestors had to wait days or even weeks to receive a letter. In addition to this, we also know that they manage to be keep up to date with a huge number of friends through the social networks.

To some extent, the other older human beings are taking the same steps as their children, although we will never know what it means having been borned to be actually born with all these technologies.