Effects of Technology

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday. I know it’s hard, but try your best to heat that junk up a week later and serve it up. If you agree with my tastes, you know how painful it is to eat leftovers, especially cold meat that is meant to be hot. Anyway, I found an interesting article about U.S. currency, and the changes it may endure.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20846364-23109,00.html

It almost blows my mind that there hasn’t been a better way for blind people to use money yet. I’m sure they can tell the difference between a quarter and a dime, but a crisp 1 and a crisp 50?? Good luck. It never ceases to amaze me how technology can improve our lives. Some would argue that technology makes our lives hard, as the demand for the latest and greatest takes hold of us, and we need to be constantly fed by electronics. I agree that technology has changed the ways in which we get news, get educated, and carry on business, but I don’t know whether I think it has a fully negative impact. I really like watching football on a 1080 Hi-def TV. 10 years ago, we wouldn’t understand any of that but TV. Whether it is good or bad, we can all agree it changes society. It may or may not cause health problems, and it may or may not make us happier. The fact is, it is here, and it isn’t leaving.

The question is then, how do we use it to our benefit to make society educated and happy? We can simply refer to websites that come from sound sources, but there is yet another problem: too much useless information. I don’t care that Stanford University did a study on the comparison between birds and midgets. The trick is, to use what we have to our advantage, and become enlightened because of it. Some use it as entertainment while others view it as entrapment. Think about it this way, technology makes it possible for a well-trained monkey to do almost any job that before would take a highly educated, well-practiced professional. For a fun comparison, we’ll use James Bond. Eventually, James Bond will be a machine that is capable of seeking and destroying his enemy and following commands to complete objectives. This movie would not nearly be as good as say, any other James Bond film. The fact that a highly trained human is performing these amazing feats is what makes the movie interesting. It makes Bond’s job interesting too. If Bond simply typed a name in for a machine to destroy, it would take all the fun out of the job. This is what I fear is happening to our jobs across America. We are making ourselves obsolete, and finding replacements for our jobs.

I’m curious to see what you think, so let me know!! There will quite possibly be more on this topic in the next blog.