You are not a gadget

Sonia
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The words in this book are written for people, not computers.

That freedom, ironically, is more for machines than people.

''"What is a person?" If I knew the answer to that, I might be able to program an artificial person in a computer.''

This article is refering of how technology is afecting us in real life. Almost all the people use internet to comunicate with other people and do other kind of things. This article speaks about how we are everyday connected to the internet.

I´ve chosen this sentences because the explain things about the article and remind us we´re people, not computers or computer programs.

In my opinion, this is a very good article because explains us about how internet afects our lives and help us to avoid getting connected all day long.

Isabel
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IT`S EARLY in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons-automatons or numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals.

The most impotant thing about a technology is how it changes peolpe.

A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.

The article speaks of how atached we are to technology nowadays and how can it affect the people, little by little we are turning into machines controlled by the machines, this is refected in the first sentence.

But technology not only make us work as automatons but can influence in the perception we have on other people, we dont know if what the people said to be trhoug the internet is true and moreover this lack of interaction between people increase when people post things on the internet anonimously.

Its true that technology (and particulary the internet) has a lot of influence in our times, so we cant refuse to use it, but we have to learn how to use it.















