BY: Darryl Blake
On Monday September 24th Professor Sistrunk took us on a retrospective journey to the 1960s and 1990’s and showed us some predictions of what people in those times believed the future would bring. Although some of the ideas do not look as robust as originally believed, it is interesting to see how a lot of the ideas came to fruition. For instance, making videophone calls with Skype and GPS devices such as Garmin which help navigate us through our everyday lives. I look at society today and in such a short period of time technology has now been integrated into everything that we do. The CNN article Smartphone apps become 'surrogate therapists'1, shows a great depiction of not only how we rely on our technology for survival but also how it replaces the need for human services. In the previous class, we talked about how doctors can now perform surgery remotely2, monitor patients and bring down cost for hospitals.
Many people fear that eventually as technology becomes better and cheaper, jobs once intended for hard working individuals will be lost to “robots.” I feel that it is very important for people of all ages, young and old, to be aware of the world around them and not fall behind on the current world trends. As someone who works for a technology company Apple Inc, it bothers me greatly whenever I work with customers who have never owned a computer or even an email account. Witnessing how hard it is for them to adjust to the world around them is sad and it disheartening how far removed from society they truly are. It was an interesting class and really reminded me of how far we have come and how quickly things have changed over the years. I have a great respect and appreciation for technology, but I hope that we as humans never get to the point where we lose our basic human instincts and creativity and rely 100% on machines and technology.
This is true. We should do a workshop for adults and children who aren't technology savy
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see how technology and peoples thoughts evolved from the past to present. I remember having thoughts and imaging what the future would look like for example the movie "Back to The Future" was suppose to be a jump into the future and a replica of what it could look like. But todays world is full of touch screens, wireless connections, electric cars and etc. But never the less society and the economy is changing.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog. The older generation has the toughest time adjusting to new technology and often time will settle for lesser technology and fall behind or pay for new technology and not be able to use it to the best of its abilities. Also, I agree with the comment about relying on technology as well, America has a very large obese population and new technology to me is one of the main causes of our US citizens becoming obese. If we have technology do every thing for us, then we will be used to not doing anything for ourselves.
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I believe that technology has helped progress us as a human race. The advancement of technology has helped to make life easier. The one thing that stood out to me in the videos was the GPS because I use mine to go a lot of places and without would get lost often.
ReplyDeleteIt seems as though technology develops so past. By looking at this video, it seems that technology grows faster than human development.
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