Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Survey Part 1
The next sort of "chapter" in the book is labeled Survey and kind of just gives a background history of electronic media and the progress this world has become. For example, it starts with the battery-powered telegraphy in the 1830's to the washing machines and refrigerators in the 1910's to the televisions in the 1950's and public access to the internet in the 1980's. That is quite a bit of progress over the years, and it just keeps growing and growing. Although we may not be inventing a whole lot of new technology, we are still making our technology a lot better by reducing the size, faster, more accessible things like that. They have even already invented cars that are able to drive them selves from point A to point B and park themselves and everything! It's crazy how computers and machines are taking over this what once-was man powered world.
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What's your opinion re: these technological advancements?--Is tech progress always a good thing? What are some of the implications or losses? Are there any, in your opinion--or is it always a positive thing?
ReplyDeleteI believe for the most part tech progress is always a good thing. There is always that fear like the movie iRobot where the whole world is going to robots and then they turn corrupt and go bad, but do I see that ever getting to that point? Probably not.. The one thing I do fear is with cars being able to drive themselves they don't have that instinct like humans do to make that last second jolt or see that car coming from across the intersection as well as a camera might see. But other than little things like that, I would say everything has its flaws, but for the most part I do think it is positive.
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