Society Is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld

-->In the short story “Society is dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld,” by Andrew Sullivan is about how our universe has changed completely because of the iPod. People walk around the streets in their own little world because of the iPod and iPhone and everything else around them does not matter. The Apple store is treated like a church and the Genius’s standing behind the genius bar are like priests waiting for people to come to their church to confess about their iPods. The world today has changed a lot from what it used to because with all the new technology from Apple, its like we are given a universe all to ourselves from all the news, email, web surfing, and much more we can receive. Even the meaning of music has changed, it used to make people closer together but with our own portable music we can listen to the music we like without anyone ever knowing what we are listening too. In the end, the author ends up losing his iPhone and panics for a second, but then he realizes that he can hear the soundtrack of life around him and was not too worried anymore. One quote I really liked was, “ But we didn’t walk around the world like hermit crabs with our isolation surgically attached.” This quote made me think that with all the sorts of Apple products there is out there, we are in our own world and we can choose to shut people out of our lives if we really wanted to with the “surgically” attached iPhones that our life depends so much we need to carry it around with us and use it so much. The second quote I liked about this short story was, “ its strange to be among so many people and hear so little.” I liked this one because there have been many times where I encounter someone and I want to have a conversation with them but they keep their headphones on which is really rude and makes me not one to have any conversations with them at all.