essay

 This is a good start to the drafting process to the essay. In addition to expanding on what you have started here, I point out how you need to better introduce "Interview with the Luddite" and Kelly and Sale to the reader; you can also make your thesis clear from the start (I think I understand it, so see my comments on the paper); and you might move some things around in the draft to improve the unity and coherence. You should notice, too, that I suggest you include discussion of your experience today with using technology to, as you put it toward the end, "manage" things as evidence that supports the idea that tech is the answer to our ills.