Technology and Culture Reflection

While writing this essay I thought a lot about how technology benefits us. I've always been of the opinion that technology and progress are always good, but the criticisms of technology really made me think. Technology almost always makes things more convenient but does it improve our lives? I remember talking once about how food now days has become all about convenience and the slow food movement wants to combat that. Now we can make our meals really fast but maybe it just makes us feel busier, because we don't take that time to unwind and slow down while making a meal.

In the future I need to keep an open mind before forming my thesis for my essay. If you start an essay with a thesis in mind you might lose complexity and creativity. For an in class essay you need to write quickly but if I had more time for this essay I would have liked to start out just with a reflection on various examples from real life and the reading and slowly build my way towards a thesis.