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__INTRODUCTION:__ **(BOLD= THESIS STATEMENT)** Even when I was little, technology was always one of the things that caught my attention. The lights, sounds, keys, and colorful buttons, all amazed me. Every time anyone of my family members got a new gadget, I would be the first one asking questions and wanting to learn how to work it. I think that my generation of kids is the most caught up in all technology that has been coming out for the last few years. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. It can be a good thing because we can be the next people in making these new gadgets but it can also be a bad thing because it is constantly distracting us from things like school work. I find myself using a lot of these gadgets because they help me keep in touch with my friends, family, and help me with my homework since a lot of the new technology seems to now be incorporated in education. I feel like because of the spur of technology, we have all these new advances in things like medicine, education, and even social life. **Technology is slowly going to take over humans mentally, physically, and socially because gadgets are now controlling our lives instead of us controlling the gadgets. _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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__Paragraph one__: **New technology like upcoming iPhones are going to have a new application that can allow Physicians to review their patient's vital signs from anywhere.** Your doctor can get a live picture of the pulsating waves of your cardiac rhythm, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and other stats from your iPhone. Who would of ever thought that an iPhone was going to be able to do all of that? __Quote__: "Broadband is becoming increasingly important to people's ability to participate in the economy and society," said Ofcom's market development partner Peter Phillips.

__Paragraph two__: **After June 12th 2009 there was a transition of cable to Digital Television.** You will no longer have to worry about your television having problems but will be able to have clear television. Why the big change? __Quote__: Many of these people crowd online forums to complain about the new regime. "Why fix something that wasn't broken!?" is the standard refrain.

__Paragraph three__: **Companies, factories, businesses, etc are now using different types of technology to help them in many ways.** In order to save money, they use computers and automatic answering machines to answer phone calls instead of having to pay clerks or phone time. __Quote__: “The company doesn’t want to spend more money on the call, because it’s a cost,” Alwan said.

__Paragraph four__: **Technology has advanced so much that the sports industry or more closely, the NBA, is now trying to create a camera built into the floor to tract down the basketball players every move and help record their stats.** Jobs will close but will also open. Jobs of people who are doing the stats and camera-men will be lost but people who are making these underground cameras will definitely have a open spot available. Quote: "Player tracking is the heart of the new NBA stats collection," NBA executive vice president of operations and technology Steve Hellmuth said.

__Paragraph five__: **People are becoming too involved with social networks.** It is starting to make a serious impact on their minds. Teenagers feel like they need to be on there data (internet, text, etc) phones every minute of the day or they cannot function. Once it interferes with your dreams and you start dreaming about internet then that’s when you know that you have gone a bit too far. That can be one of the first signs that social networks or gadgets are starting to control your life instead of you controlling them. __Quote__: One of my Twitter friends, game designer Jane McGonigal, had not slept well. "Had a nightmare last night. Ustreaming from home. In the chatroom, everyone starts typing INTRUDER! INTRUDER! Someone snuck in", she tweeted, followed by: "They saw it but I didn't. I'm terrified. I wake up (for real) and can't shake the feeling someone is in the apt. Very hard to sleep."