With all of the contents for this week blog. I have passed through a phase when I felt what are we doing with our lives? I must say that these articles and the movie chapter was all acted as an eye opener for me.
In the Black Mirror: The Entire History of You, Liam has taken a chip in his neck and then he had to pass through a very painful procedure. But what does that chip do? It helps a person to memorize every person and even the scene in his mind. And he can look back on it whenever he wants or if anybody else wants to. What lesson we get from this, again how technology is playing an important role in our lives that I think we are really going to depend on technology to remember our memories for us. I think that depending a lot on technology is taking us away from the real world. I know many of you would disagree with me. But let just suppose, for the upcoming years aren’t we going to remember our loved ones by ourselves? Rather we have to use chips to save our memories now?
Technology is playing its role in our daily lives. Now it depends upon us that in which way we want this technology to lead us to. The two of the articles with a contradict titles i.e. “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “Google Is Not Making You Stupid”. Again it depends upon the people, how they want to take this technology as. I mean many of us would agree that yes we spend a lot of time on google and whenever we make a search we divert from the main task and start surfing for unwanted materials. Although, google has helped us a lot in many ways. But my point here is that google takes a lot of time of a person and again a person would eventually end up being in the world of internet.
I have found this article “Foucault and social media: life in a virtual panopticon” really interesting. In this article, the author has talked on various aspects that how we ended up being in the social media and away from our real world life. He said: “A Foucaultian perspective on social media targets the mechanism that makes it tick: sharing. Sharing is basic to social media. Sharing content is not just a neutral exchange of information, however”. I totally agree with his point here that sharing is the basic tool on social media. And I personally do not like to share my personal life on social media because it brings a lot of problems in our lives. Sharing your data is like giving access to other people on the social media to your life and they can use the data in any form, which I personally not in favor of.
So, my question to you all is Do you want others to lead you? Do you want to give them access to your personal life?
Consider it before it’s too late to Reconsider!
The link is being shared which is highlighting some negative effects of technology.
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Hi Rayan TQ, I liked your article very much because it contains information about technology in our lives and our memories. In our time, this is how we use technology a lot, and I agree with you that in the future we will find a way to put segments in our minds so that we can remember what we forget. And I think that it has its pros and cons, but its negatives more than its positives, for example, can make us remember our loved ones who we lost, but their physical damage is greater than that. In response to your question, I do not want someone to lead me to my goal or my life. It’s okay to ask for help from family or friends, but do not over-rely on them. Just rely on yourself most of the time.
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i also liked your article about how technology has a major influence in our lives. The pros and cons in Technology is great but i would also say that it will do more harm then good. In life there are certain events that people try to forget because of the trauma it causes their mind making tools to remember the past can have a negative impact on peoples mind.
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“Do you want others to lead you?” This is profound, and terrifying and true. I definitley wouldn’t consider myself a follower, but the more I think about it, we really are lead by others through life. Whether it’s our bosses, our parents, our spouses, we’re being lead, but I think of it more as a hand-in-hand journey, and we need these people. We’re social creatures, and we need some direction in life from the people we love because we can’t do everything ourselves. We can’t always be leaders, but we can’t always be followers. It’s give and take and it’s messy, it’s not black and white. Even if you consider people we don’t know on social media, they lead us to see adventures we want to take, they lead us to want to better ourselves. Of course I’m being optomistic and I know there are detriments as well, but I like to think overall, people are good.
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