Today is the first lesson of Technology and World Change and to be honest I have no idea what this is all about before the start of the class. After hearing what others have to say and what they think about this course, I guess I am pretty much on the same page as the rest of my classmates.
Although I am for the change in the technology, but I am not a very IT person and accordingly to one of our classmate, I believe I am "tech- slow" as well. Looking at how much technology has evolved over the years, I must say that it has definitely brought us both pros and cons to our daily lives. Without the improvement of the technology till today, I guess this blog will never exist and most of us will still be killing tress by taking notes using massive amount of paper etc. However, miscommunications often happen as people are over dependent on technology and refuse to have any physical communication with each other. Typing an email or sending text messages are useful, but how can one predict another’s behavior accurately just by the email or test messages itself?
From the video of “Shift Happen”, it clearly shows us how technology is moving on how it will affect us in the long run. What we are doing now or doing to prepare for the future might not even exist! People are getting smarter and thus explain the constant improvement of the technology that we have on hand. But this in turns churns out even smarter people who will come out with even smarter inventions!
I believe that technology helps to improve people’s lives but inevitably it “force” people to be innovative and strive for the better. As we know if we refuse to keep up with the recent technology, we will never be able to keep up with it even after a short period of time.
In one of the video of “Guns, Germs and Steel “, Yali's question: "Why does the White Man have so much cargo and the New Guineans have so little?" It makes me think about tons of reason why they are still living in such a condition while I get to enjoy good food, good working, and living environment. Why is there such a big difference? Although it was mention that they were once given “cargo” as well, but they did not use it the way we will use. Are they not equipped with the knowledge on how to use them which explains why they are still in such a living environment? Or is there any other factors (living environment which does not guarantee them enough electricity/ educators) that stops them from interacting with the fast moving technology that we are experiencing which causes them to have less “cargo”? Does technology has a part to play in educating these people as well? The world have certainly changed due to the introduction or usage of technology but some part of the world is not experiencing such changes for sure.
We have the technology that help us to keep up with the rest of the world but the New Guineans have the human touch and the basic way of interaction with people that most of us (tech- savvy people) lacks. Technology did try to improve social interaction between humans by introducing social network sites like Facebook and Blogs to let us understand and communicate with each other in a more efficient way. So in some sense we are not losing the human touch with people. But think again, do you think you really know who you are talking to through these sites? How sure can we be that what they are portraying via the internet is exactly who they are in the reality world? We can never be sure, but technology has definitely played a part in creating virtual identity for some of us who were unable to present ourselves (confidently/ saying things we will not dare to say/ true self) in reality.
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