Don't Fret, My 'Pet'.

     In Postman’s speech, he references words spoken by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”  Throughout his speech at Calvin College he shares his opinion of the 21^st century and how we as humans are slowly adapting ourselves to become “merely pets of computers.”  In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death also states how we are getting used to the new technology and we are going to always keep looking for more and more.  As technology progresses we will become more comfortable talking to machines and inanimate objects.  “It is a delusion to believe that the technological changes of our era have rendered irrelevant the wisdom of the ages and the sages.” 

     For example, the new discovery of cloning shows us that we are getting so used to the technology that we are willing to put a body in “storage.”  It started off as a sheep, a monkey, and then a frog, but now it is stretching as far as cloning a human being for just-in-case purposes.  Humans are adapting to the morals of the new century.  Postman’s allows the reader to know that technology is slowly but surely taking over the lives of humans.  We have accepted the fact that we are willing to change our life styles and morals to adapt to technology that is created in our world.  People are now dependent of the current machinery such as cell phones and television.  The use of words spoken, face to face, is being replaced with new technology and the idea behind communication is being lost as we fill our lives with machines and new communication devices.