In response to my first blog post, Robot Love: Are We too Dependent? I want to point out the affect of our technology dependence on future generations. When you look back, its hard to remember exactly what we did before Facebook, Google, Mapquest, or Internet period. It's hard to remember the times where you had to actually had to call some one to communicate with them, or go to the library when you had an unanswered question, or even stop and read a map when you got lost. If our generation is slowly moving away from doing these things, you can only imagine what our future generation will be doing. The underlying concern is, what will happen if all of our modern day and possibly future technological conviences were to disappear? Would our future generation suffer from not knowing how to complete everyday tasks that are made simple because of technology? While it's difficult to imagine all of our technological advances 'disappearing', it is certainly a possibility. With computers taking over everything to everday tasks to jobs, would our future generation be at loss because of our dependence on technology?
Technology is surely the thing of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We all need technology is some form or fashion. I don't believe their is a way that future technological conviences can disappear. Technology for the future is already planned out for future generations. People invent new things that relate to technology everyday. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970323.html I think the question is, Is technology advancing to fast? Should technological advances slow down? I understand your point, and your views, but do you think that maybe we are to simple for technology?
ReplyDeleteYou asked, “If our generation is slowly moving away from doing these things, you can only imagine what our future generation will be doing. The underlying concern is, what will happen if all of our modern day and possibly future technological conviences were to disappear?” Technology will not disappear any time soon. Today’s generations strongly rely on the next advancements in the technical world. Ipones, Microsoft, Mac, PC’s, Blackberries, and so many other devices or programs are constantly being updated. Now people look forward to that new upgrade or bigger and better technology and our society would freak out if our advancements somehow became disconnected.
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