With every advancement in human history, the effectiveness of communication seems to be getting better and better. Whether this is with the first communicative drawings depicting stories, the formation of words, telegraphs, and now computers. Is this all for the better for the human mindset? Instinctively communication is human nature. As people, we express ourselves in many types of ways, physically with gestures, auditory, or even indirectly with forms of art. Communication is the key to success as a collective.
I was born in 2002, this was a time in which 911 just happened. Politically national security was the absolute importance. Any form in which security was able to be upgraded was upgraded. This pushed technology faster then ever within the United States. Phones began to become an essential in everyone’s life. I grew up understanding the basis of what phones do, call and text. When the years passed on apps that were less focused on indispensability began to roll out, such as social medias.
As of now, we are able to see the extent of what technology can do for us. But more than ever are we seeing the worst of our own creation. Depression is at an all-time high for mental disorders. There is an obvious paradigm shift in how people act now. It seems like people are stuck in a state of comfort-ability that is not pushed by everyday struggles. New age communication is only reinforcing this with easy access to social media which hooks its audience into an endless loop of lifestyles that are merely facades of reality. I believe that this age of humanity is in a generation of stunted intellectual growth.
