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How will family bonds of changed by technological impact in 2020

Even in today's society, it is far more easier and convenient to communicate with family members by phone, text or email than it is to take time to go visit them, so by the year 2020, how will we be communicating? will we need to make

visits to go see them, will family bonds still be as strong?

View A

Future technology will able us to communicate with family far more personally than text or email, such as video calling which will probably become standard, or emailing handwritten notes & letter, travelling long distance will no longer be requied, we could all meet up in a virtual living room!

View B

Future technology should not result in loosening family bonds, it should provide people with easier ways to keep in touch, but it should also encourage and promote the benefits of phyiscal interaction with your family, a video call cannot replace the warm feeling of a hug from your mum or dad!

2 comment(s) so far

chrisek thinks: It seems that families are becoming more and more separated. The family unit is not what it used to be. Parents and children rarel eat dinner together. When I was a child, dinner was at 6:30pm and everyone was at the table talking abou their day. This is what we have lost in todays society. Tecnology might help out, but it does not create such a strong bond as sitting and having a conversation with someone in person.

ca thinks: It's up to the individual family and culture that generally defines the how close a family is. In the U.S., families usually live great distances away while in South America and parts of Europe families often live together until the children marry. I see it as a social phenomenon, not necessarily a technological one. Technology can only help strengthen this bond, but it cannot create something that is not there to begin with.