From Toronto to Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, devices such as the cell phone are familiar icons of modern culture. Overtime I have realized, people all over the world are hungry for contact and communication with friends and family; which is a universal human quality that helps explain the cell phone’s popularity. These so called "devices" don't need a fancy keyboard, or even a person who is educated; they're simply ways to talk to people in whatever way, form, or language they want - an activity that well translates well across culture.
When looking at the "cell phone" and honestly thinking about what's it's purpose, I simply thought - interaction with everything and everyone. Its purpose is to reach the needs and desires of everyone. The word purpose means “ the reason for which something exist or is done, made, or used,” the purpose of a cell phone is the reason of why that certain piece of technology is made; it exists because it was made, it is used because it was created. This piece of media serves to million, maybe even billions of people as either their main purpose in life; without them they would be dead. This little piece of technology over powers life, because really it becomes life.
Speaking from experience, my cell phone is always attached me to, without it I would be totally lost. Why? That question I think might just be the hardest to actually answer, but if I had to come up with something to explain why, it would be simply, because I have been sucked into this “media ecology.” Neil Postman mentioned in his novel “The Humanism of Media Ecology,” that, “ Technology would not stop us from feeling…it will allows us to grow,” and that is exactly what is happening. Technology becomes us, it is us, and it will continue to grow inside and outside of us, because when our world grows so does everything around us.
- With one piece of technology a whole world is created around us.
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