Since the Industrial Revolution, technology has permeated and become an integral part of our daily lives. Indeed, a life without technology seems almost impossible to imagine. Almost everyone, around the world, has access to technology in one form or another. As a result this type of technology has become ingrained in our culture. Its roots are so deep that it is now strange to see someone without a smartphone rather than with one. As a result, smartphones and the Internet have fundamentally changed the way we communicate and the way we communicate with each other. Our language has transformed so much from that of our grandparents that it almost feels like a foreign language due to the incorporation of slang and "text talk." With the sudden surge in email, blogging, and instant messaging over the past two decades, the impact technology has on our linguistics has become more pronounced. Technology has helped bridge the gap between people by allowing us to communicate as easily as we breathe. In this regard, one might think that the dawn of the technological age would give rise to a renaissance of the English language but, instead, the opposite is happening. With such widespread prevalence of technologies like smartphones and computers, the degradation of the English language is a problem now more than ever. Computers are considered standard in a student's arsenal of weapons used to tackle not only school but also life in general. Computers have the potential to be one of the greatest resources for a student, especially when it comes to writing essays and homework, but they are used as a crutch when it comes to writing sentences with correct grammar, syntax, and spelling. Students are becoming more… middle of paper… technology should be heralded as the greatest benefactor of linguistics and language. Instead, it seems like it could be its undoing if left unmitigated. Technologies such as the Internet, cell phones, text messaging, and other social media have influenced language and English in various ways. Emails and text messages have made writing a daily occurrence. Computers have made writing faster and much easier. With such easy access to information, as Peter Diamandis stated in his book Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, “we live in a world of information and communication abundance” (10) and with the rise in popularity of technology , we see the English language deteriorate further and further until one day its future form will be completely unrecognizable from its predecessor just as Old English seems foreign from today's English.