Part 3

My analysis of Quote 2:
This statistic may not directly transfer over to our alternate terms to put in place of surrogates, but the idea is still quite the same. A majority of people’s lives are consumed by technology and internet. Why are we not spending more time one on one with those we love or care about? Why are we not spending more time together in groups to interact and socialize and laugh and enjoy one another’s company? What a sad life to wake up one day and realize that we are still living but the major association we have with people is through our surrogates (our internet and technology) interactions. I am not by any means saying that we should cut off all internet and technology connections or usage habits. I am just saying that we need to keep it in check. We do not want to live in a world that is continually increasing technologically and sucking us right on in with it, slowly leaving our normal human interactions behind. We just need to take a stand and even though there are many increasing opportunities to stay connected digitally, we have to decide for ourselves how much is too much-whether that be limiting ourselves to only necessary or beneficial technology devices. It could also just be each of us setting a time limit each day that we will spend on various aspects of our lives: work, family/friends (normal human interaction), and internet/technological devices.

Quote 3:
“- Newscaster's voiceover, Surrogates
(preaching to the people who use surrogates) "Unplug from your chairs, sit up and look into a mirror. What you see is how God made you. We're not meant to experience the world through a machine."”
My analysis of quote 3:
This quote really seems to hit the problem on the head. We just need to “unplug” our technology devices sometimes and realize that we are humans who need to experience life that way. If we were robots, then we could justify ourselves in experiencing the world as thus; but since we are not, we must maintain our human interactions and continue experiencing the world personally and not only digitally.



I found a website with an article discussing the ways Internet use takes more time from family and friend interaction than it does from television watching: http://www.clickz.com/3455061