Billboards fill the empty spaces of long, winding highways
They pique our interests with irresistible advertisements
“The iPhone SE is newer and better than before
With brighter LED lights to perfectly capture irreplaceable moments of your life.”

“In the course of our improvements, we’ve lost ourselves.
Times spent flipping through dictionaries
In the quest for finding long lost words
Now long gone, thanks to Google.

Or running to our mailboxes waiting to hear from loved ones
Finding their postcards of their tropical escapade to Hawaii.
Now all we have to do is scroll through Instagram posts
And we actually grow resentment towards their flauntful captions

In the course of society’s refinement
We can no longer hold back from posting insults on social media
We can no longer bear the insufferable suspense of the ellipses in iMessage
We can no longer rely on our minds for answers but instantaneously look to Quizlet

In the process of uplifting mankind
We’ve turned our eyes away from bringing up
Our struggling brothers and sisters reaching out to us
Striving to be lifted up, with outstretched arms

That we can’t see because we’re obsessed
With the latest snapchat filters
Appropriately fixing our heads with enlarged ones
To suit our ever-growing egos”

Such fabricated depictions of ourselves from our elders only grow to be more unfavorable
They choose not to see that the technology they hate makes us more astute beings
That the dry erase boards replaced by advanced, multifunction smart boards
Enrich the education of students with real world applications of lessons

So surely, without a doubt, one will find that with the passage of time
Kainos drives our society to improve the quality of our products
And some of the greatest strides in humanity have been made with it
But, there is some ground to to the older generations’ complaints

We are falling to cultural lag, as human morality fails to keep up with technology
The problem lies not only in the new generations, but also the old
Neither want to hear the other
Which further distances us from each other, as more urgent issues escalate

Acknowledgment of the use of technology is the true debate
And behind this lies the ethics for innovation
So regardless of one’s stance on technology
There still lies the obligation to conduct yourself morally
For a holistically progressive society