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Comparison
With a fantastic
advance in the field of technology
, it
brings more benefits and
troubles to
the
modern
people
’
s
lives
than before,
and there are
two articles
focus on
this
question
by
two
different
authors.
Comparing
the
two
articles
–
“Attached
To
Technology and Paying a
Price”
written by Matt
Richtel
, and “Tracking Is an
Assault
o
n
Liberty
, With Real Dangers”
written by Nicholas Carr, there is a
common idea that
both of
the
two authors are
focusing on the
negative effects of technology
in
people’s
lives. Furthermore, the
emphases of
the two articles
have difference. In
Carr’s
work,
he
is
more
interested
in
the
privacy
under threat by the
increasable divulged personal
information. On the other
hand,
Richtel pays
more attention to
the
effects of people's
daily
lives
by
technology.
In
addition,
Richtel
also
shows
that
there
are
positive
effects of
technology in his article. Overall, it is no doubt
that technology has pros and
cons for
our lives.
To begin, we
must
focus on the
common
idea
about
the cons of technology
.
Richt
el agrees that “Our
ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of
information”
(Richtel
2).
That
is,
due
to
the
process
of
technologies
being
applied
in
the
modern
people’s
life, the excess of
information
into our daily
lives
has
led
us to
focus on the
extra
information;
meanwhile, our awareness of original
life
has been reduced. As a
common
phenomenon,
people
spend
increasing
time
on
the
Internet
or
other
media
digitals
such that
we
ignore communicating
with our
family
members;
not only that,
there
is
more
serious
issue
that the real
dangers are close to
us by divulged
privacy
.
Carr
shows
that
“personal
information
may
be
used
to
influence
our
behavior
and