Wendy AP Language

For my causal argument, I would like to look into the effects that come from the drastic increase in technology in our world today.  This is a very broad topic, seeing as there are a million things that have come from technology-good and bad.  However, I was leaning more towards people’s impatience when it comes to their behaviors.  For example, any time I am listening to my iPod in the car, I am constantly flipping through the songs, rarely staying on a single song for its duration.  My mom always gets onto me saying things like, “Can’t you just enjoy the whole song?  Back in my day we didn’t even have the choice to skip through songs with records and cassette tapes; we were able to enjoy the whole song.”  I usually blow this comment off and just keep skipping, but sometimes if I really think about what she has said, I find it true for many things.  Everything in society is FAST today.  We have TiVo so we can fast-foward through all those pesky commercials.  If the internet takes more than 7 seconds to load, it is running “slow.”  Here’s another thing I have noticed: remember on VHS tapes how the credits were at the beginning, and you would see all of the credits before the movie began?  Well now they are at the end, and most people just turn the movie off and do not sit through the credits.  Communication is fast with texting and e-mail.  Heck, we can’t even wait to go back to our computers to check an e-mail anymore, we have to have it right there on our phones!  So, this is the direction I am trying to go in with my argument, and I will possibly go further to say that this is having a profound impact on our society and could be something much worse than impatience.  But my overall point in this argument is to show the cause: rapid increase in technology and one effect it has: impatience.  I’m not sure if that is exactly right because there are many other effects that have come with technology.  It is a cause and effect situation though so I think it will make sense.