We, as humans, live today in a world where the dust of improvement never fully settles in the air. With each passing year, a new technology emerges that will seem to make our lives easier and thus ultimately make our lives perfect. Every BlackBerry, laptop, iPod, HDTV, and convertible has been proclaimed by the media to be a necessity; therefore, objects without which we cannot live and which we must possess. The more technologically advanced a person is, the more perfect their life becomes. This factor, this need for perfection, has evolved rapidly throughout human history and may be about to collide head-on with disaster and confusion. Lauren Slater, "Dr. Daedalus" and David Brooks' "Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia" share this aesthetic notion of perfection in action. No matter how “unnatural” or exaggerated these changes may be, it now seems impossible to return to the way we once lived: horse-drawn carriages instead of Ferraris, live classical music instead of hip hop and R&B in our headphones. , kids who play outside instead of staring at the television for hours, and who go to visit a friend instead of sending a two-word message consisting of "what's up?" » Perfection has consumed the lives of many people and caused Americans to make drastic changes in order to stay in line with the vision of perfection, even if it has not come to fruition. Americans have been so blinded by all the shiny gadgets and commercialization. of “necessities” around them that they have confused the idea of ​​what they want with what they need. This need for perfection is a need, a secret desire in disguise. We trick our minds into thinking we need this $50,000 brand... middle of paper... and we go so far as to spend all our money to achieve this vision of perfection. What appears to be a want for one individual may end up being interpreted as a need for another, but confusing wants with needs can come at a high cost and one should be careful when viewing advertisements that say otherwise. America has come a long way when it comes to technology, but it has also become too dependent on it. As Americans, we can never return to the way we once lived in horse-drawn carriages or traveled the world if technology ceased to exist. This American vision of perfection can spiral out of control and lead to changes that don't need to be changed and irreversible surgeries that scar us for life, but we continue to strive for our perfection because it This is the only way we know how to live. -live for a perfect future.