How technology has changed our lives.

 “how technology changes our life in some aspects such as education, medicine, life, the way we communicate, and the way we respond etc.”

    Sometimes after a long stressful day I sit back and wonder what it would have been like to be alive 100 years ago. So lets compare the year of 1920 to the year of 2020. World War 1 had just ended, and the "mass media" was born. The "talking box" now known as the modern day radio became a huge hit in the year 1920 after it started broadcasting live results of the presidential election. Only three years later 500,000 radios had been bought by American people. That is a great example on how fast technology can evolve and how quickly people catch onto it and want the "next big thing." Now in the year of 2020 people can simply pick up their smart phone or tablet, and get the latest news on the presidential election. 

     I think that the video on how technology has hijacked the dinner table relates to every single American family. It has become so easy to pick up a phone or a table and scroll through social media and see what is going on in the world. I thought it was very interesting how the family's reacted when all of the phones, TVs, and tablets were shut off. They were trying to restart their phones and tablets, and checking if their TVs were unplugged.  A couple of kids in the video even got mad when their video games were turned off. I can say from personal experience that if my phone gets turned off or isn't working my first reaction is to try and figure out what happened. In the end of the video family's started eating together and communicating more at the dinner table. I can personally say that more times than most I have a habit of grabbing my phone while at the table, but after watching that video I am going to start turning my phone off while eating with my family so that I can enjoy more family time.