Now the protagonists find the pleasure of enjoying the peace and quiet of the evenings, while reading a good book and without being interrupted by technological appliances. I think that the fact the author can finally focus while reading a book he had been putting of for years, can be attributed to the lack of contact with the outside world, and this book being a sort of outlet from the highly involved daily work in this community.
I find interesting the concept that “in being slower, time is more capacious”, and according to this description, we are all “captives of technology”. I also agree that in today’s faced-paced society that is very hard to achieve, and if you do slow down you get left behind. For me, when I slow down it’s usually because I get tired of the pace, and if I take it easy for too long I find it hard re-adjusting to the rhythm when I get back.
On a similar note, I believe that technology is not something that society as whole cannot fight. Maybe small groups such as this one can choose not to use it, but overall it’s too big of a phenomenon to ignore and it represents the future.
2 comments:
Representing the future is a good way to state technology's emphasis on our culture. Technology if anything helps us gain some time to enjoy other things like time with the family.
On the other hand, it can also take away from family time as children become more on dependant on TV, video and computer games
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