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I have found Culture Jam to be a very interesting book. It questions the very nature of the human race today. It brings to question everything that we do and how we have chosen to live our lives. It makes you think and wonder about what is right and what is wrong. It makes you second guess the way society is. I have no problems with my life, and I have no complaints. But, I do think that technology has gotten out of hand that today people to rely entirely to much on technology. At the same time, I think that we couldn't live without it. to quote my history professor "Once we have technology we need it." This is something that has impacted lives forever. Just think about it, when the first people in the world started to farm and develop new technologies they started to need them. They went from being hunters and gathers to developing a culture around agriculture. Once they had agriculture they could settle down in one place and build cities. They could also support more people and have bigger families. All because they started coming up with new ideas, and ever since then people everywhere have come up with new innovative technologies and they have greatly positively impacted society and the way that the human race lives. Would you want to resort back to being a hunter or a gather? Probably not.

I feel that the same applies with society today. Yes, sometimes we get out of hand and they invent things that are silly and not necessary. But, to some extent we need all of it, or feel like we do. When you wake up in the morning think about your alarm clock, think if you didn't have it. What would you do? Could you wake yourself up? Or your cell phone. For many of us, myself included, it never leaves our side. We feel lost without them. Imagine living today knowing that they exist but not being able to have one. Today everything that we do revolves around technology, just as way back when when their whole lives depended on agriculture and survival. So where do we draw the line?