speech on the title the technology generation
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Technology is unavoidable in today’s society. It affects most parts of our lives, especially what we do with our free time. One affected area is reading. It is undeniable that the face of reading in this generation is continually being changed by technology. At times, the consensus seems to be that the change is negative, but this is not necessarily true, despite some worrying trends.
Many studies show that most people these days, especially teens and adolescents, aren’t reading books as much as they used to. From a 2007 study in USA Today that states that one in four people didn’t read a single book the previous year, to a 2014 Time article that details how 45 percent of 17-year-olds admit to having only read one or two books by choice per year, to another 2014 study by Common Sense Media that describes how only 19 percent of 17-year-olds read every day, it’s clear reading among teens of today needs some help.
I’ve noticed this in my day-to-day life as well. It’s somewhat rare to see a teen in the nearby library reading instead of doing homework. The librarian at my school gets very excited when she sees a teen reading or checking out a fiction book because it isn’t a particularly common occurrence. Even I, who used to pride myself on my reading level and quantity back in elementary school and was known to get three books out of the library at a time in middle school, have to remind myself to set aside time to read.