1. Technology Creates Social
Isolation and Neurosis
by
Brennan Kellett

2. World of Texting
• First Cellphone invented by Motorola
researcher Martin Cooper in 1973
• First Cellular network created by Japanese
wireless service provider, NTT, in 1979
• First text message sent by software engineer
Neil Papworth in 1992 from his computer

3. Texting to Isolation
Once the world got a hold of cellphones
and texting became the incredibly popular way
of communication it now is, the amount of
isolation in the world greatly increased. It was so
much easier to communicate with other people,
that face to face social interactions took a steep
downhill. Why go to your friends house or call
them to see what they’ve been up to when you
can just text them?

5. Video Games
• 1958, first video game ever created by William
Higinbothom, called “Tennis for Two”
• 1967, first video game for the T.V. created by
Ralph Baer, called “Chase”
• 1972, first commercial video game console,
designed by Ralph Baer, called the “Odyssey”,
released by Magnavox

6. What They Looked Like

7. How They Affect Us Today
• Kids nowadays don’t go outside to play with
their friends, they just stay in the house and
play games all day
• Thanks to online multiplayer, their friends
don’t even have to come over to play with
them

8. Last but not least… The Internet
• Unlike other technologies, not created by a single
inventor or company
• Started off in the Cold War, used by scientists and
researchers in the United States to send data and
communicate with each other
• Was essentially a telephone network called
ARPAnet
• M.I.T scientist invented “packet switching” which
is the breaking down of data and sending it

9. Internet continued
• Once more computers got connected it began
having issues integrating them into the network
• 19700, Computer scientist Vinton Cerf solved this
by creating “Transmission Control Protocol”,
which is essentially a handshake that introduces
computers
• 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World
Wide Web, transforming a sending of files back
and forth to a web of information that anyone
could retrieve

10. Internet and Social Issues
• People no longer have to go meet each other
to transfer information, it can now be done all
online
• Can live entirely by yourself without any social
interaction at all by having a job and ordering
everything over the internet

12. Conclusion
Due to so many ways of being able to
isolate yourself with the inventions of new
technologies, people are becoming more and
more distant from each other and developing
lots of social issues and mental disorders. The
new technologies are extremely helpful but in a
way are also detrimental to humans and their
way of life.

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