Dharma Leggat
Dr. Rowley
WRT 102
October 5, 2008
Response Essay Number One – Walden
Modern society has denoted that in order to succeed, one must be technologically literate. Compared to the telegraph and telephone from the past century, we now live in the era of the fiber optic wire and the infamous Internet. Computers and the World Wide Web have bridged the gap between both ends of the earth, allowing mass amounts of information to reach any who search for it. China has become the new backyard of the United States, and anyone from business executives to teenager, can video conference each other all over the world. Besides computers, cellular devices have brainwashed our generation into believing that mobile communication is a necessity, instead of a commodity. According to Henry David Thoreau in the “Economy” chapter of his book, Walden, technology is a waste of time when people create and use it for pointless purposes – like using a cellular phone to text......

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Title: Walden - Economy
Approximate Word Count: 1073
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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