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Living In the Mechanical Age

How Technology and Time Affects Us

Makenna Cannon, Author

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Lasting Impacts of The Mechanical Age

Through each of these texts, readers are able to view first-handedly the way that technology has influenced our world over time. This world has always, and will always revolve around the passing of time. Consequently, while in the past, society has relied on the ticking of the clock to designate the passing of time, the present world significantly relies on the display of digital numbers representing time; everything is easily accessible and at the press of a button.

 As technology continues to advance, society is becoming more attached and more dependent on it. That being addressed is the dependency on technology and it’s manifestation through clocks and smartphones going to continue to dehumanize the world?

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