unit 3 your virtual self

page 46 exercise 6

choose an activity

1: Do you think modern technology has mede us better at communicating?

I think that modern technologies have improved my communication since this has helped me to communicate with my relatives who are in very far, away areas and it has allowed me to meet many people with whom I have become very good friends.

2: How often did you communicate with friends and family online in the last week? imagine you

don´t have a cell phone or a computer .how would you communicate with yours friends and family?

This week I communicate with my family 4 days and with my friends I communicate all this week. If I did not receive a cell phone or a computer, I would try to communicate with my friends and family through the messaging service by sending them letters

page 51 exercise 22

Discuss in groups

1 Amber believes that eventually, with calm technology, electronic devices will do all the boring, repetitive tasks in our lives. How will benefit us? What negative impact might this have on us?


I think that the calm technology can benefit us since we could have more free time and people could use this in more beneficial things. And the negative aspect of this technology is that we are giving it too much confidence and the people who do these jobs would lose it.

2 Calm technology will allow diferent machines in our lives to share information about us, our routines, and our personal habits. Do you think that sharing this information is a security risk? why or why not

Yes, I consider that this type of technology would be a great risk for all the people who own it, since these teams will reveal all the information of the users that are using this type of products, they will be exposed to any person, besides this is a violation of human rights and privacy

3 Desing a house that uses calm technology. Think of all the ways it can use calm technology to make our lives easier without demanding our attention


at the entrance of the house that the door has biometric data recognition, inside the house that has a controlled environment system that raises or lowers the temperature, also that lights are turned on or off only when the microwave is turned on by itself and that just prepare the food so that it is hot, there is a sprinkler that irrigates the plants every 12 hours.

page 55 exercise 33

write an opinion essay to answer the question : Can we live without smartphones?

I think that humans can live without the use of cell phones because they are not fundamental for our daily life and this is based on the fact that many generations have passed without the use of cell phones and these computers are generating a dependence on these