How Technology Has Influenced Our Lives - 2021 Words

Civil Society is a term that’s cropping up more and more amongst those concerned with the changing shape of modern society. A â€Å"civil society† is a measure of how much we care for the community and how much effort we put into the success of it. As technology develops more and more people aren’t able to practice the values of a civil society due to the influenced of â€Å"screen culture.† This â€Å"screen culture† refers to all the devices that have nearly become a limb for many people in this twenty first century. Sherry Turkle, a psychologist, demonstrates in her article Alone Together about how technology has influenced our everyday lifestyles from simple household chores, to having intimate relationships with robots. We now live in a society†¦show more content†¦The freedom that technology has given us has enabled us to live in a virtual world, which offers more freedom than reality does. Because of the false facade technology provi des we often forget what it means to live a civil society. A key feature of civil society is the ability to come together as a society to socialize and network. However, in today’s society the screen culture around us has prohibited us from conforming a shared public life with each other. Often many struggle to avoid all the twenty first century gadgets that withdraw from any sense of a shared public life. Due to our fast paced lives, many of us have forgotten to make time to barely have a meal with our families. Flammang worries that our lives in this twenty first century distract us from the values of a civil society. In her article A Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics and Civil Society, she mentions â€Å"Democratic speech and behavior can be practiced at the table and as spend less time in common meals, we are losing an opportunity to learn and teach the art of conversation so essential for civil society and democratic practice†(112, Flammang). For centuries the dinner table has been a place where friends and families can come together despite all their differences so that â€Å"bread can be broken† together. Although we may have never realized it, the table manners we learned early on in our lives