17. Technology is making us blind: The dangerous complacency of the iPhone era

The author starts by showing how technology has become an issue to our generation and he says that for it to change , our culture has to change. He says technology is more and more responsible for the loss of our freedom from the corporations and government. We are blind and  we do not care if our privacy is being depleted by the way technology controls our lives. He says that how we use our technology  cannot be changed because of how unconcerned and unaware we are of the growing dominance of coporations and government in our lives. We are powerless against the government and so our privacy is invaded, technology makes us blind of this fact and we keep unconcerned of problems like this. He then goes on in saying how the way people view technology has changed since it was invented. It was once feared by people as the author uses the movie "Terminator" as an example of fear of technology. The way it is viewed has changed since then, it is not anymore viewed as a threat but as a way to improve one's own life. Technology is more and more growing to be part of humans, and it is a way of being narcicists according to the author. The more technology, the more comfort and self expression there will be.
The author is very successful in transmitting what he wanted to transmit. He successfully starts by stating the problem and thesis that will drive the whole article. Then he develops his points with good and relatable examples that support the reasons very well. The pace of the article is not to fast and no too slow. The way he explains the change in the way technology is viewed is very affective. He starts and ends the essay talking of the way technology is decreasing the privacy of each individual in society and how each of us is unconcerned about it. The author starts and ends the essay  with the same idea stating the dominant impression fo the essay. The essay was clear and direct in what it wanted to say.

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/29/technology_is_making_us_blind_the_dangerous_complacency_of_the_iphone_era/