Who's fault is it? Lawrence or Technology?

Everybody talks about the Lawrence difference, usually referring to something about the many different personalities and lifestyles that can be found all over campus. But another aspect of the Lawrence difference involves the intense homework that all Lawrentians must complete. To many students by 8th or 9th week, there is a sense of having to be productive at all times. Because there seems to never be enough time to get everything completed in time if you are not always being productive in some way.

My thought is this: Many people say that our generation is very technology dependent. As Rosen mentioned last week in his iDisorder talks, people are more likely to play around on their phone while waiting than simply sitting there in silence. Is this because they are bored? Or, like Lawrentians, have young adults become so preoccupied with making the most of their time, that it is completely unnatural to simply sit without being productive in some way?

So, society has become a very go-go-go atmosphere, for a variety of different reasons, which possibly has led to people becoming more unable to wantingly sit without some sort of stimulation. In order to do what would make themselves "happy", people have become dependent on technology to give them their wanted stimulation.

So has technology or society been the reason that people have changed? Or has technology simply been the medium through which people have changed, but not the actual reason? I think these are interesting questions that people will have different answers for a long time.