Not Another Lit posting

I haven't uploaded a post recently mainly because I haven't been reading the assigned class articles, but here goes another posting on the exciting read that is English 115. For this week we were assigned to read two different articles both taking a different stance on technology and how it is viewed and used in modern day society. The first article I read was written by Sherry Turkle and is titled Can You Hear Me Now? This article focused mainly on what technology is doing today; how people have become reliant on their laptops, blackberrys, and tablets to communicate and relay information as quick as possible. I feel that this article did a really good job at countering her own argument which I feel gave her stance more credibility. She provided views form the other side of the argument and that allowed for the reader to weigh both sides of the topic. The next article was written by Clay Shirky and is titled Gin and Surplus. this article was  a bit more one sided. He used only his point of view for the article and did not give a lot of information on the other side which caused his argument to lack a bit of credibility like the last one had. While the last article focused on how people are with modern technology, this article focused mainly on the origins of this social revolution on he sitcom from years before. I personally think that the better article was the one written by Turkle because of the counter argument provided in the article. Her article was also much more optimistic as opposed to the cynical view of Shirkys article.