Monday, August 3, 2015

The '80s: The Decade That Made Technology (MLA research essay)

          In the modern day, technology has become a crucial part in the life of mankind. If we look around, we might be able to spot someone constantly staring and tapping on a small piece of plastic. Someone else could be sitting still with a small piece of thin cable plugged into both ears. Early human beings would think that our generation is bizarre. Nonetheless, we can agree that our everyday lives have become so much more convenient thanks to the endless possibilities of things we can do with the outputs of current technology. When we make a video call, chat in a group message, read an
e-book on a tablet, watch a how-to video, or Google the recipe of an apple pie, it may not come to our attention that at one point people could not perform any of those tasks and some of those words did not even make any sense. National Geographic has created a series called “The 80’s The Decade That Made Us” which claimed that, just like its title, the 1980s was the decade that heavily influenced the lives in the twenty-first century. Significantly, the 1980s was the decade that kicked off the journey of modern technology as we saw the first personal computer, the first cellphone and the first
hand-held video game.