Conformity And Technology

5 Ways You Give The Government Control” written by Kenneth Coats shows how the devices we use daily slowly take over individuals lives. Coats states, “Today, most people in the United States carry a mobile phone that accompanies them wherever they go. We use them for everything...This essentially makes them the perfect tracking and bugging devices”. Although electronic devices are known to be safe, they allow outside people to figure out individuals personal life. Due to the need for devices such as cell phones, each individual has a high chance of being socially stalked once in their lifetime. Coats then states, “Not only do intelligence agencies gather information via mobile companies, but… your phone can be hacked using spyware. Even if your phone is turned off, it can be remotely accessed to recorded conversations and take photographs”. This issue causes a panic due to the wide spread of inappropriate pictures and private conversations in one's life. Even though technology is viewed as a privileged, it is also taking away people's lives without their

People’s phones are being monitored by the government. Privacy and unmonitored spaces are not existent in today's world. One good example in today's world is the “Hello Barbie” by Mattel. This “smart toy” retails at 75 dollars and has features such as microphone to listen into little children's lives. The sound bites of the child are sent back to Mattel's headquarters to bexamined so the Barbie can give appropriate responses. Mattel could use this feature for advertisement. They could relentlessly pressure the children to ask their parents for the newest Barbie toy. One hacker named “Matt Jakubowski was able to get into the toy’s system to access users’ system information, Wi-Fi network names, internal MAC addresses, account IDs and MP3 files, he told NBC Chicago. He added that he would be able to use this data to find someone’s house and personal information, and could access their home network and listen to everything Barbie records” (***). This is a serious invasion of privacy and he was only able to do this with his laptop. Anyone can hack into a “Hello Barbie” and find out somebody's personal information. One other example in today's world is the NSA monitoring people. Edward Snowden was a NSA agent who exposed what the government was doing. This can be related to an section of the book Fahrenheit 451 when Montag realizes the hound is tracking him, “Outside the door, in the rain, a

Many of Bradbury’s concerns, such as privacy issues, have become a reality. Some communities have begun adopting a new form of technology which monitors people's electronics and "can also capture texts, calls, emails and other data, and prosecutors have received court approval to use it for such purposes" (Richtel). People are not given the information needed to understand how invasive this technology really is, causing many privacy concerns for people. In addition to authorities starting to invade your privacy, private corporations have also begun raising many privacy concerns. One smart television company told its customers to "be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party" (Newman). This invasion of people's privacy raised many concerns, and eventually became a reality when "when hackers demonstrated the ability to take over televisions with built-in cameras and microphones" (Newman). Even though the creators of this technology may not have meant for this to happen, this device has caused a great deal of both privacy concerns and even safety for some. As well as the privacy concerns it causes, technology has also begun to impair people's social skills. One person noticed "dozens of people riding the subway, deeply absorbed in their smartphones, oblivious to the world around them. They all seem much more comfortable interacting with their devices than with one another" (Wortham). Although some people believe their phones make them much more efficient workers and help with long distance communication, many can argue that the constant distractions because of the pings, notifications, and messages can prevent people from focusing in the task at hand and interacting with the world around the mall (Wortham).

Technology is apart of mostly everyone’s life and daily schedule, but often people fail to realize the fact that the government has the ability to monitor everything someone does through these devices. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, a futuristic government spies on their citizens through technology found all throughout their homes. The government used secret microphones, telescreens, and the thought police, a group in charge of finding rebels against the party, in order to monitor what people say and think. There are many examples of this in today’s society: Amazon’s Alexa, Samsung Smart televisions, and social media apps. Amazon’s Alexa and Samsung Smart Televisions are voice recognition systems

Privacy and the conflicts associated with it that citizens face are some of the most controversial topics in the world today. One of the main conflicts that citizens deal with is if the government is spying on us all the time and that if people feel that this it is an invasion of their privacy. Peter Singer evaluates on this topic of the good and bad of privacy in his essay, “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”. He explains how technology has changed the way people think about privacy. People know and share all kinds of information about themselves through social media.

In the article “That’s No My Phone. That’s My Tracker”, Peter Maass, suggest in a seemingly, unbiased fashion, that unconsciously we are letting ourselves be tracked and investigated by simply using our cell phones, “Every year, private companies spend millions of dollars developing new services that track, store and share the words, movements and even the thoughts of their

Throughout history, iconoclasts have played a vital role in transgressing society’s self-imposed boundaries, expanding individual perception past prejudices of society. Such revolutionary ideals embed themselves throughout many of literature’s greatest works, essentially forgoing society’s previous prejudices in lieu of a new, revolutionary perspective. Such works serve as an impetus for the spread of further revolutionary ideals, allowing for a continual renewal of society’s central beliefs or a cyclic cleansing of society’s perceptions. Shaw’s Pygmalion and Brecht’s Galileo attempt to rebut ideals of their time by centering around the triumph of radical subjectivity, in the form of invention and intellectual property, over society’s

The Catholic Church and its teachings are being threatened by the need for conformity in society. Erin Pracht is famous for saying, “People can do whatever they want. It is when they conform to society that they restrict themselves.” As society, with the help of the government, presses the issue of diversity and the importance of conforming to society's wants, the Catholic Church is forced to defend its traditional teachings. If everyone becomes diverse, diversity in the workplace loses its appeal and uniqueness; thus, diversity becomes the new norm. When the government and society are pushing Catholic schools to conform to the diversity norms of society, it consequently creates a less diverse society.

People get caught up in monotonous, repetitive lives. Daily routines provide comfort and a sense of safety, but change offers a chance to revitalize a life. The problem arises when comfort and monotony outnumber change and the fear of the unknown. Humans naturally tend to choose the easier path, the one requiring less work, risk and sacrifice. By choosing the easiest choice, people entagle in an endless cycle of comformity. For example, they might choose to work in their hometown instead of risking moving to another city. This shows how people often make decisions based on the familiar rather than the unknown. But change offers hope. It solves invariability by providing unexpected, exciting and diverse opportunities. A person moving from their

I understand that technology doesn 't always impact our social norms negatively, but in general it leans towards being more negative overall. Technology can even positively affect our social norms, sometimes with social media like Skype, Facebook or Snapchat. I disagree with that side of that argument though, technology most definitely affects our social norms instead. Technology can have crippling effects on our first hand in person face to face confrontations. Technology pulls us away from not only our friends, but also from family, turning dinner into lets all stare at our phone time. Not only that, but technology breaks down both our speaking and writing skills. If we keep letting tech dominate our lives, it

On a positive note, self-surveillance devices can also protect the innocent from unjust procedures by providing them with an alibi (Dennis, 2008, p. 353). In other words, these gadgets have the potential to safeguard us from jail time. For example, a man named Hasan Elahi was frustrated with always being detained for his appearance and mobility after the 9/11 attacks, so he decided to deal with this by using his smartphone’s map to indicate to officers the exact spot he was at during the time an event took place with even taking pictures to provide evidence that he was not involved in any crime that he was suspected to be in (Dennis, 2008, p. 352). For this reason, Elahi’s self-surveillance is both a measure of safety and a hassle for him as he is forced to document his life, so that he is not questioned for every move he makes because of his looks and lifestyle (Dennis, 2008, p. 352). Even though self-surveillance technologies can create an alibi it unfortunately becomes a matter of privilege as those who are considered the “norm” are not scrutinized as much as those who stand out (Kang et al., 2011, p. 34). With that being said, self-surveillance starts to affect powerless individuals even though this is not how the gadgets were designed to be used (Dennis, 2008, p. 352). Instead the purpose of using these devices was for us to use them to take initiative in our protection without expecting others to do it for us (Dennis, 2008, p. 352). Disappointingly, it seems that our intentions become lost in the process as self-surveilling tools become an instrument in which we can prejudge those who we believe seem likely to have committed a crime or will likely commit one in the future (Dennis, 2008, p. 352). On account of this unsettling findings it is crucial that we do not always trust technology to answer all of our problems rather it should be used as an additional source of knowledge (Goodyear et al., 2017, p. 2). Overall, as long as self-surveillance devices are used by mature human beings we can see that technology can prevent and protect us from any form of threat that might come our way (Dennis, 2008, p. 350).

Human nature depicts that one is prone to follow the rules and values set by the community. It is normal for an individual to emulate what is put out there for them to see. People form opinions based on what they say on a day to day basis and also based on the people that they interact with. A child gets to learn behavior through observation and by the time they get into adulthood, their personality is shaped by what they are exposed to every day. Cognitive theory states that the brain is responsible for interpreting the information that one is subjected to. The social cognitive theory depicts that every day interactions can affect the way that one views a situation. It is through this understanding that adverts are created. The main goal of adverts is to get an individual thinking about it until they have no option that to act on it. Nelson explores the spectatorship and surveillance culture especially in a technology driven world in her work “Great to watch”. The question arises whether a line should be drawn between using surveillance for security measures and using it to intrude other people’s privacy. People nowadays are more prone to record an event as it happens rather than give a helping hand. Individuals have become so engrossed in technology that they have been turned into spectators even in their own lives. It is evident that as much as surveillance can be used as a means to solve a conflict, it can also be a source of conflict. Gladwell covers the same issue

In the previous five years, cybersecurity has turned into the most looked for after calling around the world. More than 90 percent of respondents to an overview directed by the Ponemon Institute (2011) detailed being a casualty to cyberattacks amid the most recent year, costing all things considered more than $2 million for each association. This number keeps on ascending as the two programmers and security devices progress. As indicated by PwC, roughly 33% of all U.S. organizations are as of now utilizing digital protection (Lindros and Tittel, 2016).

Technology has become a social norm in American society. There is always some form of technology wherever you may go. Technology affects almost everyone in a negative way. While technology continues to advance, school and work performance begins to diminish. Humans tend to get sidetracked when they focus on a certain thing for too long, and this can cause a person to slack off in daily activities. Isolation is also a result of technology; it consumes up valuable time that a person may have with family members, especially if they are in the same room. There are numerous things that are unethical about today’s technology. Some feel that technology is very beneficial to our society. To an extent, it is but morally humans should do things for themselves instead of always depending on some form of electronic for assistance or to satisfy a need. Professors and staff use every aspect of technology especially in classrooms to expand learning and to circulate information. Technology should be used for certain things but not for everything because in the past we did not have access to these things. In our present day, technology is seen as a necessity instead of something that is optional.

Nowadays we hear the word “cybersecurity” a lot, but do you ever wonder what does it really mean? According to the department of homeland security, “Cybersecurity is general Internet safety, which includes protection of anything connected to or accessible by the Internet- from networks themselves to the information stored in computers.” The University of Maryland University College defines cybersecurity as a measure that protects our computers, networks, programs and data from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction.” You can also think of cybersecurity as a fence that keeps others from manipulating the confidentiality, integrity or the availability of your information without your consent. In the past 25 years, technology has changed at a remarkable speed. The explosive growth of the Internet has changed the way we portray ourselves and conduct our business. E-commerce, Online Collaboration, and Social Media are all well-known examples of the modern era inventions. They have radically changed the way we live our lives and depict ourselves. The effects of technology can be seen in every genre. In fact, it is the backbone of everything we do as an individual, a company or even as a nation. Since the invention of the Internet, the whole world has become a global village. As a result of this seamless connection, we are able to access information from anywhere in the world and collaborate with others without leaving our couch. On the other hand, we are more