2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
14. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING AT YOURSELF!
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This message was recently emailed to me and I thought it pertained to our arguments of last week and this week. I have to admit. I did or have done everything on this list. However, is this such a bad thing? Is the sudden boom of technology in our lives our doom? To put it bluntly, no, it is not. As I wrote about last week, the recent trends of society in a world as advanced as ours is nothing new. Carving on stone, led to ink, which led to pencils, which eventually lead to word processing on typewriters and then computers. Technology evolves, it isn't created. This relates to the readings for today from Thomas Kuhn. Almost every invention or change in theory was the result of a crises in the old way of doing something. Copernicus' theory from Ptolemy is one example he uses. In fact, Isaac Newton once said, "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." This means that all of his accomplishments were because of the work of those who preceded him. You need to look beyond your own scope of thoughts, prejudices, opinions, and beliefs. Only when embracing the findings of others will one be able to stretch the limits of all possibilities The technological advances of today are products of the hard work of many before us. But remember, these advances will undoubtedly lead to new theories and inventions.
I completely agree with you. Technology is not created, it advances. Somewhere somehow there was an idea that made this new technology stem from. And I agree that we need a crisis in the old way to need to evolve into something newer and better. like the old saying...why fix it if it isn't broken? we do "create" the new technology in the sense that we do need to create something new, but we dont seem to give credit to what has come before it which actually makes it an evolution of technology.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense. When we text it probably does not seem apparent that it stemmed from email and telephone. We might be tempted think of it as an "Ah-ha!" innovation, but it followed the cell phone. Original versions of that were probably modeled after military radios (walkie-talkies). Texting has laid the foundation for phones that let people check and send email. In fact, a lot of these innovations probably started as a gimmick for the phone companies to remain competitive, but now many people find these devices indispensable.
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