Technology Has Society Spoiled Rotten

Technology Has Society Spoiled Rotten

Photo Courtesy of: Hannah K. Lee, The New Yorker

Technology has society very spoiled. Technology has caused people to somewhat lose patience when it comes to the media. People want it now, not later. People expect certain things from the media. With technology, they expect for the media to post their updates in a timely fashion. Technology has given people some type of power over the media. Now the media is in competition with society to be the first to post stories.  

"Technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency; Increasing opportunity; Increasing emergence; Increasing complexity; Increasing diversity; Increasing specialization; Increasing ubiquity; Increasing freedom; Increasing mutualism; Increasing beauty; Increasing sentience; Increasing structure; Increasing evolvability" (Wu, 2014). 

People such as Jayson Blair, a former writer for the New York Times, didn't uphold the journalistic code of ethics to publish stories that would entice or move his intended audience. He cared that much about getting out a good story that people would enjoy and have an emotional attachment to that he lied and deceived the very people he was trying reach. He used technology to cover his tracks and his location when he was "supposedly" covering stories. He went about his work in all the wrong ways!

References:

Wu, T. (2014, February 6). As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse? Retrieved August 30, 2015, from http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse