What really stood out to me this week about class was the idea that technology has this hold over us that we don’t recognize as much as we should. This has made us oblivious to things around us creating this delusion that we can only survive if we have this technology at all times. Our phones are a prime example of that statement. Peoples liveliness are on their phones in a sense, meaning that all their secrets and all of there information is compressed onto one single device. It makes you really wonder about the affects of this on a psychological level. In the article “Foucault and social media: life in a virtual panopticon” it brings up this very point of technology and the affects of social media. In another reading called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the author Nicholas Carr goes over how reading on the internet has in turn affected his reading and concentration and he believes this true for many other people too. Whats good about these articles is that they both can relate back to the Netflix episode Black Mirror: The Entire History of You. This episode shows the audience a world where you can go back and look at past memories, but you soon see mid way through the episode how bad of an impact it can have on you and the people around you. It shows the dangerous of some technologies and how it can either benefit you or destroy you. Humans want to keep keep finding ways to advance with technology.
It’s the idea that by progressing with technology, it will help evolve us more and make us better in the future. What if that wasn’t the case. What if the these advancements in technology have actually been making it harder for everyone in society to evolve together? Creating this division between people, making it so only certain people can evolve with new technology. For millennials this will most likely be an easy task, but for the older generation of people its fair to say it’s tough on them. Being a millennial myself, growing up with this type of technology has made it easy to keep progressing as time goes on. Navigating this new world of technology for the older generation can be seen as difficult and possibly be seen affecting day to day activities.
Back to the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr establishes that the internet is changing the way he thinks and how he goes about other activities. As for the millennials, they don’t even realize this because they grew up learning and reading on computer unlike the older generations. So the point that Carr makes is that it’s not problem for younger people, but a problem for older people who didn’t grow up with this technology. This has made his views and other peoples views change on the subject of technology. The same thing is shown in the Netflix episode when the one girl tells everyone at dinner that she doesn’t have her chip anymore to replay memories, she then explains how much better she feels not having having that technology anymore. This changes her view on the the product all together and it eventually leads the main character to take his own chip out to get rid of the pain he kept living over and over. These articles and episodes really open your mind and make you really think about your own view on technology. So with that being said think about your own view on technology do you agree or disagree?
Weekly News
This article is about president Trump going to Kenosha, Wisconsin where the shooting of an unarmed black man was killed by law enforcement and subsequent demonstrations that have turned deadly.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/politics/donald-trump-kenosha-wisconsin-visit/index.html
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Yes, you brought a very important thought. People of the older generation are finding it hard to just to the way life is becoming with all the advanced technology when the younger generation is able to adapt and use then. An example I can think of is at New york city bus stops their are polls that tell you what time the bus schedule and it has been there for so long but now when the transit app the tells people when busses will arrive, they are thinking about getting rid of the polls with the schedule but that will be detrimental to the older generation because they use that as a way to commute place to place.
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I found it very interesting how you touched on the fact that everyone has their information and all of their personal secretes all in one place. That is a scary thing to think is that someone could hack into that and just get all of your personal info and do scary things with that like steal your identity from you.
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