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Technological Addiction Sells

In today’s society technology plays a large roll in everyday life. A person can’t even wake up in the morning without a high tech alarm clock. Technology and society are completely interwoven. “Technology has become our environment as well as our ideology,” writes the Dutch social critic Michiel Schwarz. “We no longer use technology, we live it” (Schwarz & Jansma, 1989, p.3). People have come to a point in society where they can do almost nothing without technology being involved. They need it to have control in their lives. “It is this desire for control that often backfires when humans assume a position of extreme dependence on technical artifacts, and the lines blur between who is the master and who is the slave” (Glendisdrug, 2001, p. 23A ). Therefore when something goes wrong and technology doesn’t work quite the way they hope or expect it to the tables turn

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