Technological Determinism

McLuhan's theory of "Technological Determinism". An example that i have chosen is cell phones and its usage. Cell Phones enhances your way for communicating to people if you are anywhere doing anything. You can make a call while you are not in a place with any kind of public phone. It reverses because after every month you have to pay your bill. Having a cell phone, you are addicted to all the applications and this can make you stuck on your phone texting, going online, instant messaging, etc...and this can sometimes increase your bill. Cell phones can be obsolete because we sometimes want to get the latest phone because we realize our phone is out dated. What do we do with our old cell phone? sometimes people give it away, but the majority of people just leave their old cell phones in a drawer never to be seen again. What makes cell phones relevant, is that it takes us back to 1870 when the telephone was just something that transmitted speech. McLuhan's theory can be shown by any kind of development, and I believe cell phones is a good one to canvass.