A) In pages 292 through 294 Selfe introduces the idea that we only look at the benefits of technology and try to hide from the bad side effects. She also says that we believe that the advances in technology will cause only positive productive social changes. She then goes on to say that she will demonstrate how Americans are trying to use technology to save the world, with her evidence being the images that we use in our advertisements for technology.

B) It is said that as a society even though technology is changing how we live our lives it is not changing the roles that our society stereotypically places on individuals because of their race, gender, orientation, etc. Cynthia Selfe attempts to prove this in her essay “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution” through examining advertisements for various forms of technology and seeing how they represent the people in them. In her conclusion she states, “They do indicate, however, that it will be exceedingly difficult for Americans to imagine an electronic landscape in which individuals enjoy new kinds of opportunities to relate to each other and new kinds of opportunities to make positive changes in their lives (Selfe 316). Selfe is saying that people will not be able step out of their traditional roles and expand into new opportunities even with the new technologies. I disagree in that she says that the technology will not break down gender roles, on the internet there is no gender you can be a boy, girl, or whatever else you want to be. Also technology opens so many more doors for the average Joe that they are able to improve themselves to be what they want to be.