Partee 1
Hanna Partee
Professor Erin Beaver
English 121
July 16th, 2018
The Dark Side of Technology
The 21st century can be easily categorized as the age of technology and communication. We can
support this claim up from information provided in Nicholas Carr’s article titled “How tech created a
global village — and out us at each other’s throats”. In the article Mr. Carr writes “Of the world’s 7
billion people, 6 billion have access to a mobile phone — a billion and a half more, the United Nations
reports, than have access to a working toilet”, this statistic alone gives you the idea just how connected
the world is through technology. With the global village allowing people all around the world to
