essay about digital age (part 1) I live in the future. Yes, exactly. Today is tomorrow. Tomorrow is three days after tomorrow. When I was a child I remember how my mum and I discussed how wonderful it would be if we had a possibility to call our relatives using video. When I read the first news about tablets, I thought it’s a fantastic gadget for an extremely high price. Some years ago when I used my button phone I was at the conference about high-tech devices for educational purposes. That time the host told that soon everybody will use touchscreen phones. And I didn’t believe. But it’s a reality now. I suppose most of people nowadays can afford using web-cameras, tablets and touchscreen phones. We are the generation of Digital Age. The technology develops faster from day to day. Holograms, teleportation or artificial intelligence will exist soon. All these inventions make our life easy and comfortable: online shopping, one click for searching the information, huge network clouds for information storage. We can find the job online, get the psychologist’s advice, chat to people who are thousands miles away. So on the one hand we enjoy Computer Age as it makes our everyday life more convenient. But on the other hand, the life, when a mobile phone continues the hand, when a computer screen reflects on our eyes, when the memory keeps only the way of using google, can’t have disadvantages. Healths problems like obesity and short-sightedness are evident. Though the humanity might be under the more serious threat. As for me the greatest problem is the loss of our personality. Of course, people show their private life in the socialnet themselves. But can we really hide it, can we protect it? Our personal data are kept on different servers, the cameras are watching our lives everywhere, the usage of mobile phones, credit cards, chips could show our location. Could we avoid this all? I don’t think so. The time requires us to have a mobile phone (by the way, do you know a person who can easily switch it off?), different types of cards and biometric documents. The situation when a person is always under control is described in some utopias and people there don’t have private life, they don’t know what freedom is. These days the humanity definitely goes to that “utopia” as we are happy to give our personal data online and show geolocation.