Throughout history, more and more technologies are being invented. In the article “The Judgment of Thamus”, Neil Postman writes about how various inventions as basic as writing change our lifestyle and way of thinking. I believe that each technology has a good and a bad side to it, and the effect that’s done by a specific technology is completely based on how well we use that technology towards our advantage. Neil Postman states “It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing not either-or, but this-and-that.” (152) Relying so much on a technology without using our own intelligence to evaluate and judge the technology can make the technology take over our
