Assignment Task: Have you ever gone a day without technology? If so, please tell me about your experience. Here are some questions to consider.
Q1. What are its effects on relationships?
Q2. Does it undermine conviviality (i.e. communal friendliness)?
Q3. How might it bring people together and how might it erect barriers between people? Does it affect our way of seeing and experiencing the world?
Q4. Is its main goal to drive commerce-in what ways might that be good or bad?
Q5. To what extent does it redefine reality?
Q6. Does it erase a sense of time and history?
Q7. What is its potential to become addictive?
Q8. In what ways has the pandemic revealed our dependence on technology?