The Imagery of Touch
The author uses the example of climate change to appeal the sense of touch and feeling to the reader. The effects of technology are felt globally just like the impact of climate change. Technology is impacting on every aspect of human life globally. The author narrates that the effects of technology on human beings are catastrophic and can be felt. The author says:
"The argument set out in this book is that, like climate change, the effects of technology are widespread across the globe and are already affecting every area of our lives. These effects are potentially catastrophic, and result from the inability to comprehend the turbulent and networked outputs of our inventions."
The Imagery of Thunderstorms
The writer uses thunderstorms to depict the sense of hearing to the reader. A thunderstorm is a cloudburst that produces sound, which triggers hearing. The author is using this imagery to aid the reader to understand the initial intention of the technology. People have deviated from using technology as intended. As a result, the objective of technology is not being achieved and instead of enlightening the world, it is leading to a new dark age. The author says:
“The mysterious tools thus became magical objects: when their original purposes passed away, they were capable of taking on new symbolic meaning. We must re-enchant our hammers – all our tools – so they are like the carpenter’s, and more like Thor’s. More like thunderstorms.”
The Imagery of Image
The author is using the image on the screen to appeal the sense of sight to the reader. The reader can visualize and see what is happening in the film episode. The writer says that the image on the screen keeps on changing before the laptop crashed. This description is vital because the reader can closely follow what is happening alongside the author as continues to write. The author says:
“The image on the screen continued to change, but my laptop had crashed, and on a sentence of the audio looped over and over: ‘if only technology could invent some way to get in touch with you in an emergency!”
The Imagery of Thinking
The author narrates that technology makes people think of things they should not have thought because that leaves hollow feelings and despair in them. Feeling depicts the sense of touch to the reader. The author writes:
“Doing so often leaves one with a hollow feeling in the gut, a kind of despair……I think of my friends, and the things we say to one another when we are being honest, and, at some level, how frightened it makes us feel.”
