This blog post will cover the concept of digital natives and the current crisis of the beginning of technological dependence. In addition to these themes I will also be analyzing the dystopic concepts of technology stated in an article titled Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.
The nature of the relationship between technology and humanity, I feel, is based on functionality; the technology depends on us creating it but once it has been created the lengths of its effects cannot be contained by humans unless ALL aspects of its abilities have been predicted. Joy proposed several question was in the article Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us “Which is to be the master? Will we survive our technologies?”[1]
In the current age of technology we as humans have embraced the convenience of technology during many phases of our everyday life; almost everything is accessible via internet: Banking, music, libraries, post offices, and even schooling. No major aspect of modern life is untouched by the way many of us now use information technologies. I believe that Joy’s questions are a crucial ones that all of our society must ask when we plan all of our daily activity around the technologies we own. I recently had a lapse of scheduling due to me now being able to access the internet and the files on my computer through my IPod because I misplaced it. The result of this was staggering, I lost count of many of the meetings I attend and my work ethic lapsed along with my organization. I was rendered completely at loss when I misplaced my main technology – my social and academic planner.
So who is to be the master? When we assess the topic of this intermingled relationship, society and technology prove to become visibly more dependent of one another as the intelligence of both expands over time. Perhaps it is always harder to see the bigger impact of change while you are in the vortex of it. This is why it is understandable to feel that failing to understand the consequences of our inventions while we are in the rapture of discovery … Not stopping to notice that the progress to newer and more powerful technologies can take on a life of its own,[3] may indeed cause us to lose sight of the impact in its occurrence.
Joy, Bill. "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us.." Wired. 8..04 (200): n. page. Web. 22 Jan. 2012. <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=>
PS: This photo is about what I mentioned in class about to the Generation separation "where do we draw the line?"
I really enjoyed your "Age Test" and I feel like many people, our children even, won't know what a tape is. Maybe even pens/pencils will start to be scarce. One of my friends realized the other day that his computer had voice recognition, so instead of having to type out topics he was searching for in Google, he just said it, and a list of websites came up. What happens if our computers allow us to speak essays instead of write/type them? What will then happen to our ability to use our hands? I know that is a bit dramatic, but I feel like that technology is where we are heading.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I totally agree about how dependent we are on our ipods/cell phones with planners. Whenever I have a meeting, or a club, I put it in my phone calendar because I know I can count on an alarm to go off and remind me of the place I am suppose to be. I couldn't imagine being without it. But it's sad how dependent I am on it. I feel like a hanging calendar won't do the same as my cell phone does. If I don't look at that calendar, I have a higher possibility not to be at that place, while my cell phone I know will always remind me. So to wrap up, maybe our world will go "BOOM" as you say in your title. All we can do is wait and see.
I really enjoyed your "Age Test" and I feel like many people, our children even, won't know what a tape is. Maybe even pens/pencils will start to be scarce. One of my friends realized the other day that his computer had voice recognition, so instead of having to type out topics he was searching for in Google, he just said it, and a list of websites came up. What happens if our computers allow us to speak essays instead of write/type them? What will then happen to our ability to use our hands? I know that is a bit dramatic, but I feel like that technology is where we are heading.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I totally agree about how dependent we are on our ipods/cell phones with planners. Whenever I have a meeting, or a club, I put it in my phone calendar because I know I can count on an alarm to go off and remind me of the place I am suppose to be. I couldn't imagine being without it. But it's sad how dependent I am on it. I feel like a hanging calendar won't do the same as my cell phone does. If I don't look at that calendar, I have a higher possibility not to be at that place, while my cell phone I know will always remind me. So to wrap up, maybe our world will go "BOOM" as you say in your title. All we can do is wait and see.