On her part, Davidson observes that one of the negative impacts of technology is embedded in the fact that it is taking people’s jobs (60). This is not just the case for low-skilled jobs. On the contrary, in the past, some white collars jobs have been taken over by technology. Therefore, considering the fact that the educational system has been slow to implement transformations to ensure it is consistent with the digital, most graduates from colleges lack the knowledge and skills necessary to work in the modern work. This means that unemployment level is likely to rise in future. Similarly, Davidson acknowledges that technology could isolate learners in a learning environment as well as create distractions that can undermine their learning process (62). This implies that rather than help improve students’ learning ability, technology can distract them, thus undermining their learning process.
戴维森指出，技术的负面影响之一就在于它正在夺走人们的工作（60）。这不仅仅是低技能工作的情况。相反，在过去，一些白领的工作已经被技术所取代。因此，考虑到教育系统在实现转型以确保其与数字化相一致方面进展缓慢，大多数大学毕业生缺乏从事现代工作所需的知识和技能。这意味着未来失业率可能会上升。类似地，戴维森承认，技术可以将学习者隔离在学习环境中，并造成干扰，从而破坏他们的学习过程（62）。这意味着，技术不但不能帮助提高学生的学习能力，反而会分散他们的注意力，从而破坏他们的学习过程。
Importantly, attention and distraction are some of the issues that feature in both Nelson’s and Davidson’s articles in their consideration of the role of technology in the modern society. To begin with, attention and distraction play a critical role in helping these writers develop their ideas and argue their case either for or against technology. In Davidson’s case, whereas she occasionally mentions the distraction that technology could bring in the modern classroom, her emphasis is on the fact that technology will help improve the attention of learners, thus enhancing their creativity and their ability to collaborate with each other. Notably, Davidson argues that learning through the use of technology promotes interactive learning, thus enhancing the ability of learner to achieve a high level of attentiveness (55). Therefore, through focusing on attention and distraction, Davidson manages to affirm the argument that technology is critical to learning in the modern society (55).
重要的是，在Nelson和Davidson关于技术在现代社会中的作用的文章中，注意力和注意力分散是其中的一些问题。首先，注意力和注意力分散在帮助这些作家发展他们的想法和支持或反对技术方面起着至关重要的作用。在戴维森的案例中，尽管她偶尔提到技术可能给现代课堂带来的干扰，但她强调的是，技术将有助于提高学习者的注意力，从而增强他们的创造力和相互协作的能力。值得注意的是，戴维森认为，通过使用技术进行学习可以促进互动学习，从而提高学习者实现高水平注意力的能力（55）。因此，通过关注注意力和分散注意力，戴维森成功地确认了技术对现代社会学习至关重要的观点（55）。
Whereas this is the case, Nelson relies on attention and distraction as key elements to argue that technology has a serious negative impact on the modern society. To begin with, she observe that technology has been instrumental in helping draw the attention of the public towards the negative vices and atrocities that occur in the modern society such as human rights violation and rape (Nelson 303). For example, through the use of technology, the atrocities committed in countries such as Afghanistan can be brought to the attention of the global community, prompting it to condemn such actions (Nelson 306). In this particular case, “attention” creates a platform for Nelson to consider the positive roles of technology. However, since her main argument promotes the notion that technology has a negative impact on society, she uses distraction to undermine this role. In this case, Nelson (300) affirms that despite bringing to different atrocities around the globe to the attention of the global community, technology often distracts this community from such issues by making people insensitive. Therefore, rather than have empathy, the desensitised public often considers such aspect as any other thing that is consumed in a virtue space. In this case, because of the distractive nature of technology, the sanctity of life is undervalued.
事实就是如此，Nelson将注意力和注意力分散作为关键因素，认为技术对现代社会有着严重的负面影响。首先，她指出，技术有助于吸引公众注意现代社会中发生的负面恶习和暴行，如侵犯人权和强奸（Nelson 303）。例如，通过使用技术，可以提请国际社会注意在阿富汗等国犯下的暴行，促使国际社会谴责此类行为（Nelson 306）。在这种特殊情况下，“注意力”为尼尔森创造了一个平台来考虑技术的积极作用。然而，由于她的主要论点宣扬技术对社会有负面影响的概念，她利用分心来削弱这一作用。在本案中，Nelson（300）确认，尽管全球范围内的各种暴行引起了国际社会的注意，但技术往往使人们变得麻木不仁，从而分散了国际社会对此类问题的注意力。因此，没有同理心的公众往往把这一方面看作是在美德空间中消费的任何其他东西。在这种情况下，由于技术的分散性，生命的神圣性被低估了。
Speaking from this point of view, Nelson and Davidson as far as their vision for society in the future is concerned. Notably, their differences are based on the way they perceive the role of technology in the modern society. On her part, Davidson thinks that technology enhances learners’ attention, promotes creativity and collaboration, and prepares learners for their employment roles in future. Therefore, Davidson thinks the society, and particularly the learning environment, needs to embrace technology as a critical learning tool. Therefore, in her ideal world, Davidson perceives the younger generations as the one who possess social power, while the older generations are fast losing this power. On the contrary, Nelson thinks technology has far reaching consequences on society. In particular, she notes that because of technologies that allow sharing of images, both still and motion, the society is on the brink of collapsing. In this regards, she perceives that because of technologies such as the internet, the society has witnessed as a significant level of perversity, rather than being transformed for the better. Therefore, from her arguments, Nelson would promote an ideal world that is void of technology, which relies on ancient art to make meaning rather than modern art, which only manages to desensitise the society.
从这个角度讲，纳尔逊和戴维森对未来社会的愿景是一致的。值得注意的是，他们的差异是基于他们对现代社会中技术作用的认知方式。戴维森认为，技术可以提高学习者的注意力，促进创造力和协作，并为学习者将来的就业角色做好准备。因此，戴维森认为社会，特别是学习环境，需要将技术作为一种重要的学习工具。因此，在她的理想世界中，戴维森将年轻一代视为拥有社会权力的一代，而年长一代正在迅速失去这种权力。相反，纳尔逊认为技术对社会有着深远的影响。她特别指出，由于技术允许分享静止和动态图像，社会处于崩溃的边缘。在这方面，她认为，由于互联网等技术的发展，社会已经见证了相当程度的反常，而不是向更好的方向转变。因此，从她的观点来看，纳尔逊将倡导一个没有技术的理想世界，它依靠古代艺术来创造意义，而不是现代艺术，现代艺术只会让社会变得麻木。
In conclusion, technology is not only making life easier but is also transforming the different aspects of society both in a positive and negative way. Notably, an analysis of both Nelson’s and Davidson’s article reveal that technology has the potential to make the society either a better place or a worse place. From Davidson’s perspective, technology’s ability to enhance the learning environment implies that the future learning environment will help promote the success of each student irrespective of their capabilities. In this case, no student will be deemed a failure. On the other hand, Nelson’s perspective promote the aspect that the society is divided based on the strong and the weak, with the strong possessing the power to eliminate the weak using all means such as violence and torture. As such, technology is undermining the sanctity of life.
之，技术不仅使生活变得更轻松，而且还以积极和消极的方式改变着社会的各个方面。值得注意的是，对Nelson和Davidson文章的分析表明，技术有可能使社会变得更好或更糟。从戴维森的角度来看，技术增强学习环境的能力意味着未来的学习环境将有助于促进每个学生的成功，而不管他们的能力如何。在这种情况下，任何学生都不会被视为失败。另一方面，纳尔逊的观点促进了社会以强者和弱者为基础的分化，强者拥有使用暴力和酷刑等一切手段消灭弱者的权力。因此，技术正在破坏生命的神圣性。