Technology Take Over
Nicholas Lane
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Opinion
The world is becoming evermore dependant on technology.
Making human life easier sounds like less work for human beings. Less work for human beings sounds like a larger dependence on someone or something else to do the work for us. That work has fallen on the technology that the world continues to create. Fifty years ago people believed that we'd have flying cars, video phones, and be colonizing the moon. We're not quite there yet, but advancements have been made; advancements that we are hard-pressed to do without.
Now, nobody's saying that technology hasn't been useful. However, there might come a time when a new generation of phone every few months might turn into a new phone every week. New computers and programs are constantly being released, and there may come a point where we might just throw up in arms saying "Hold on!" because we haven't yet adjusted to the last state-of-the-art release.
The first cell phones were about as big as the average backpack. A person would have to carry it in its own case alongside their body. Today, some cell phones fit under the crack in a door or even in your mouth. There are headsets, car chargers, computer chargers, Bluetooth, wireless capabilities, e-mail, word processors, games, and more on the average phone. Let's not forget the obvious capability of making a phone call.
Take the Apple iPhone: Its debut was at the end of June 2007. Less than two years later, the iPhone 3G was developed, with talks of a 4G well on the way. Apart from aesthetic features, there's not much of a difference between the phones. Even Apple points out that the main software differences include a faster network and a GPS locator, both of which are offered on the iPhone 2G. They have storage capacity larger than the first computers ever invented. A sleeker design of black glass covers the usual touchscreen. Other features include third-party applications like games, YouTube, Safari, iTunes, and dozens of others. The list is too long to recount. Do people really need a phone that does all of this? Can it even be called a phone anymore?
Making human life easier sounds like less work for human beings. Less work for human beings sounds like a larger dependence on someone or something else to do the work for us. That work has fallen on the technology that the world continues to create. Fifty years ago people believed that we'd have flying cars, video phones, and be colonizing the moon. We're not quite there yet, but advancements have been made; advancements that we are hard-pressed to do without.
Now, nobody's saying that technology hasn't been useful. However, there might come a time when a new generation of phone every few months might turn into a new phone every week. New computers and programs are constantly being released, and there may come a point where we might just throw up in arms saying "Hold on!" because we haven't yet adjusted to the last state-of-the-art release.
The first cell phones were about as big as the average backpack. A person would have to carry it in its own case alongside their body. Today, some cell phones fit under the crack in a door or even in your mouth. There are headsets, car chargers, computer chargers, Bluetooth, wireless capabilities, e-mail, word processors, games, and more on the average phone. Let's not forget the obvious capability of making a phone call.
Take the Apple iPhone: Its debut was at the end of June 2007. Less than two years later, the iPhone 3G was developed, with talks of a 4G well on the way. Apart from aesthetic features, there's not much of a difference between the phones. Even Apple points out that the main software differences include a faster network and a GPS locator, both of which are offered on the iPhone 2G. They have storage capacity larger than the first computers ever invented. A sleeker design of black glass covers the usual touchscreen. Other features include third-party applications like games, YouTube, Safari, iTunes, and dozens of others. The list is too long to recount. Do people really need a phone that does all of this? Can it even be called a phone anymore?
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posted 12/08/09 @ 12:43 AM PST
Technologies are improving every day.
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posted 12/11/09 @ 7:37 AM PST
I think that technologies are very important nowadays.
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