How
is new technology affecting the Charlie Chaplin character?
It is affecting him physically and mentally. Working in a factory made him doing repetitive work all the time. He was holding the same posture even he left the position because he was too into the work. It implies he was not very conscious during working, just moving like robot. Also, long working hours seem to make him exhausted. That is the physical part.
The factory work and new eating machine drove him crazy and lost control. After the long day work and being "tortured" by eating machine, his abnormal behaviors became more frequent. He let himself got into the working machines and kept chasing his colleagues.
It is affecting him physically and mentally. Working in a factory made him doing repetitive work all the time. He was holding the same posture even he left the position because he was too into the work. It implies he was not very conscious during working, just moving like robot. Also, long working hours seem to make him exhausted. That is the physical part.
The factory work and new eating machine drove him crazy and lost control. After the long day work and being "tortured" by eating machine, his abnormal behaviors became more frequent. He let himself got into the working machines and kept chasing his colleagues.
Is
there any similarity between his experience with new technology and ours now?
We supposed new technology assists us to work more efficiently and being our helper, but sometimes the situation reversed. We changed to serve the new technology. In the film, Charlie tried to catch the speed of machine and became very rush. He was led by the machine instead of controlling it. Nowadays, people used smart phone a lot, they are addicted to it. And they felt uncomfortable if without it. We created new technology, but we are now chasing and following them.
Also, over-use of new technology will bring our bodies a lot of problems. This is proved by many professionals. For example, muscles fatigue,short-sighted, mental stress and etc.
We supposed new technology assists us to work more efficiently and being our helper, but sometimes the situation reversed. We changed to serve the new technology. In the film, Charlie tried to catch the speed of machine and became very rush. He was led by the machine instead of controlling it. Nowadays, people used smart phone a lot, they are addicted to it. And they felt uncomfortable if without it. We created new technology, but we are now chasing and following them.
Also, over-use of new technology will bring our bodies a lot of problems. This is proved by many professionals. For example, muscles fatigue,short-sighted, mental stress and etc.
i think our opinions are similar. I agree with you that human create new technologies and want to make use of them and control them. however, nowadays, it seems like we are controlled and affected by the technologies a lot,
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Tatiana (September 15, 2014): I really like that you brought out the aspect of body that can be affected by using machines. On the other hand, I miss some particular examples from our live.
ReplyDeleteI like your post, short and to the point. You could elaborate a little bit more on the similarities, but what you mentioned about humans being led by the technology we created ourselves is really good ! Please, also remember to keep your blog up to date and add the missing posts.
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