Smart Phone addiction

Looking at addiction through rhetorical questions:

1. The questions the text addresses explicitly are things like "why not ask how email could improve our lives?" or "whether each design decision was making our lives worse?" when it came to emaliing and what its doing to us psychologically. Implicitly asked questions are ones like "Why is technology ruining our lives?" and "what can we do to fix technology so that its more useful rather than harmful?" These are significant questions because they bring together the main idea of the article and help to understand why this article was being conducted, what they were trying to get across to the audience. Any who uses technology should care about this interview, it impacts their lives.

2. The intended audience was technology users. Anyone who can relate to the things said in this interview, I am definitely part of this audience. More specifically though is people who create this technology and applications that are be coming out of hand. These people need some inside on the way Harris thinks and why he may be on to something extremely important.

3. Harris supports his thesis by talking about examples. One being comparing the way social media attracts people and the way McDonalds attracts people. social media messages photos and likes pulls us in and we compulsively check them the same way delicious food on commercials pulls us in and makes us want to eat it. He's pretty much stating that the world takes out weaknesses and and things we like and uses them against us to make money. I find Harris's argument very convincing he goes into so much depth and has so much background on the subject how could one not belie him. Counter evidence that is stated are things like people believing Harris was crazy with his outrageous ideas of instead of manipulating people we actually try to solve the issue but still be successful. He touched upon this but not a whole lot.

4. The title of the article was the first thing that would hook a reader."The Binge Breaker" is intriguing because in todays society binging is what we all do. Plus the first two paragraphs talk about a topic that involves cutting off all technology, that a hard thing to do, people don't do that, it makes people wonder, including me. The hook makes me very suspicious as to what the article is all about and what Harris is up too.

5.Harris makes himself credible by stating his work experience. He use to work for google being a product philosopher and is also the co-founder of Time Well Spent. Also the article really emphasizes on his passion for this topic by even admitting he is also addicted and being able to put down down his phone for awhile. Also all the research he conducts to put together all his ideas. I believe the author is credible and his sources are stated and supported by a lot of other professionals mentioned in the article.

6. Harris's values and beliefs are very similar to mine. He is defiantly way more passionate about the issue at hand but i defiantly can agree is a problem and wish to see change. I support the things harris explains in this article and all his ideas and things he has done for the issue.

7. I agree with this text. I think business is business and if we have to be taken advantage of is one thing but if that problem can be solved and business can still be business then why would we listen to Harris. It has really changed my thinking, The information that Turkle presented was similar to this information but Harris went above and beyond Turkle's ideas and came up with solutions. i really appreciate Harris and his ideas and beliefs.

8. Obviously Harris is more passionate than me about this topic but his passion for sharing this information and my passion for wanting to learn about this topic go hand in hand. I don't know if i will go as far as him too get rid of my phone for a short while but downsizing my time on my device might be considered. Harris opened my eyes to a new way of looking at how we can fix technology and still have it be used but maybe not abused.