John Mandel Station 11 Analysis

In Mandel’s Station 11, he envisions a time in which civilization is wiped off the face of Earth due to a flu epidemic. The book describes an area called the Museum of Civilization, which is a museum which collects things that have lost their worth since the fall of man. In the event of a collapse, the item best suited for the exhibit at the Museum of Civilization is a dusty baseball mitt. This item is a good candidate for the museum due to all of the history of baseball, which the mitt expresses. Firstly, the mitt will remind people of the pre-epidemic era in which baseball played an integral role.. In addition, the baseball mitt will act as a tool for teaching the post-collapse era children of the previous era. The baseball mitt will serve both as a educational tool and a way of remembering the past.

Do you think that living in a technical world would destroy society? Well, in Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, technology is very advanced and seems to get people's attention. "You're not important. You're not anything" (Bradbury 163). Fahrenheit 451 is explained as a dystopian literature. Such literature portrays an imaginary world where misguided attempts to create a utopia, or a socially and politically perfect place, results in “large scale human misery." (Critique by Michael M. Levy) This quote makes you realize that technology is taking over humans and the world has to do something about it. By creating an “utopia”, Fahrenheit 451 requires the government to take away citizen’s rights and freedoms to create the perfect society.

No matter how far you advance society, life will eventually come to an end. This theme is shown in “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale when she writes,” Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly…” This quote is says that nature will go on, even when humanity is gone. This theme is also shown in Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.” In this story, it is evident that technology wasn’t able to save humanity from it total demise. In “Nightmare #3,” technology was the ultimate end of humanity, and the thing that people relied on most killed them. Finally, in “By the Waters of Babylon,” the modern society in New York that was destroyed by the weapons that man created to keep themselves safe, were then used

In todays writing, the author doesn’t get to design their cover art. For some that is very disappointing and even for me as well. I feel as if it takes away the power from the author. In my personal opinion, I think that the illustrator designed both the American and British cover completely opposite and I think he/she did that on purpose but as well as they are not the best illustrations to tell you what is going to happen inside the book itself. To be somewhat fair, the designer of the cover for Station Eleven did do a pretty good job at depicting the book through the illustrations on the covers. The American version of the book shows more of rural scene, depicting the vast amounts of nothingness,

What would it be like to live in a world where technology has taken over the

In Station Eleven, Emily Mandel depicts a viral pandemic that kills humans leaving the world in a dystopian era. Survivors must learn to adapt new cultural techniques and live without modern technology. Throughout this amazing book Emily Mandel focus from pass to present telling stories of the main characters and their strange connections with famous film start Arthur Leander. Each Section in this book has meaning and it takes you back and makes you wonder “How would our lives change if there wasn’t technology or electricity”?

Technology is ingrained in our everyday lives. People use it at work, at school, and as a form of “relaxation”. So what would happen if it was taken away? In a popular television show called Bones directed by David Boreanaz, which is about a forensic anthropologist who helps the FBI solve murder cases, there is an episode called “The Blackout in the Blizzard” where the team has to find alternate ways to catch a murderer with city wide power outages. Because this is a work of fiction they find a way to solve the case using alternative techniques. They use scotch tape in a vacuum to produce x-rays, they use dozens of potatoes to create enough electricity to power on the victim’s cell, and they use an emission spectrograph to id

Civilization today has become almost completely reliant on technology. Almost the entire planet is connected by phone lines, roads, air travel, or the internet. People converse with others thousands of miles away through modern connections, watch live broadcasts of news in foreign lands, or talk on wireless phones by use of satellites. We are governed by laws designed to protect us. We live in heated homes with fresh water and electricity. We commute to work by car or mass transit. We live by rules, values, and ideals that keep the peace. Our world is organized, convenient, and technologically advanced. What would happen if suddenly our civilization

Ever since the “Roaring 20’s”,its been almost unachievable to pass a even a day without using technology. Us commoners nowadays use technology for everything. From communication and education,we are constantly glued to our electronics,so that we can keep up with each other, get instant information, and all in all, get things done!Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that technology is a huge part of our lives. But what if something happened, that could make all that vital technology inaccessible? We would probably be screwed. In the novel Lord of the Flies,by William Golding, a devastating plane crash leaves a group of boys on a deserted island with nothing but their brains and the clothes on their backs.If I were ever placed in that

The sophisticated technology replaced with backward technology. Technological advances stalling. Medicinal breakthroughs non- existent. A safe peaceful life substituted with the fear of being killed at any given moment, not knowing if you would live to witness the rise of the sun the following day.

One of the overall concerns regarding easily accessible technology is our dependency on it. When we take a closer look, we see an interesting dynamic: we feel a sense of isolation and danger if we are without our technology, so much so that we risk even further greater danger (literally and figuratively)

Even though technology in “The Machine Stops” and technology today have many differences, many characteristics are in common. The futuristic modern technology in “The Machine Stops is very dependable as well as modern day technology, except that in “The Machine Stops” everything is machine generated. Most people today communicate on the cell phone or text messages. Frequently, people may be contacted over video messages as well. In “The Machine Stops” the most common way to communicate is by pictures or video messages with little face to face contact. Technology used in both case scenarios is very reliant for humans. For example, humans rely on the internet to look up a question if we don’t know the answer. In “The Machine Stops”, they often did not have to ask questions because the technology already did it for them. In relation to the story, they refer to when the machine stops as a “technological death”, which we can relate to the same phrase in a way that if humans did not have the access to technological works, most of our world would not be able to function. People would struggle with communication with their families, difficulties to their jobs, and wouldn’t be aware of what was happening in the world.

Where would we be without technology? The number of things that we are now capable of doing is infinite because of the technology we have access to. This technology is also changing the way we think, write and concentrate. Cell/ smart phones along with texting and being able to Google practically everything have all played a role in the way we think and do things in today’s society.

Technology surrounds us. Like water in the ocean, people are swimming in technology each and every day. From the radio playing a favorite song to a text received about the results of a game, people use technology constantly. However, there is a point at which people are overtaken by technology; when the wave engulfs us and there is no way out. People are becoming more and more dependent on technology. Ever since technology began heavily integrating itself into society, many major uses have developed, but at a cost that brings on dangerous side effects, both mental and physical, as shown by the potential Y2K bug, that will continue unless active measures are sought out by those so dependent on technology.

“John M. Grohol” makes a good point because if people rely too much on technology, even though it helps us in certain ways, it won’t do us any good because there is always a chance that we may have another black out. We can last a few days without technology but a few weeks or longer without technology, it will be a problem. If that happens, we would not know what to do because we always use technology to solve our problems. For that reason we should not rely too much on technology and realize that we can do objectives without having technology doing it for us. It will help us