Technology in my life has forever made it for the worst or for the better depending on your personal opinion.Technology has also edited my young mind according to authors David Carr and Kevin Kelley, Carr who wrote “is Google making us dumber?” dives into the idea that the internet and google in particular are changing the way we read and process information. Carr who is very concerned about how this has affected him personally and how this is taking its toll on everyone else. Kelley wrote Technophilia a piece of writing about his thoughts on the rising technology age. Personally technology has definitely made a huge impact in my life and for the most part I believe they have been positive.
“Craftsmen have always loved their tools, birthing them in ritual, and guarding them from the uninitiated.” To me I can see a connection between craftsmen and teens today, the difference is that teens today have 1 tool and its called a smart phone
The most important/valuable technology in my life is photography. I say this because the ability to capture moments in time amazes me. Photography allows people to remember and share thoughts, things and people. It allows people to communicate without talking and has the ability to move people in unimaginable ways. Photographs are part of our legacy they show and prove what type of person you are. Without the ability to take snapshots in time my life would not be the same. We learn from our history and taking pictures is a huge factor of history. It gives the ability to show what actually happened and what it really was like. Pictures show what’s important to you for example if your camera roll on your iphone 7 is mostly pictures of wildlife and sunrises and sunsets you can assume the person enjoys the outdoors. If the camera roll has old pictures on it with family and friends you can see that family is a value of there’s it can be from pictures with your girlfriend to pictures with your cousins when you all took that family vacation 5 years ago. In life we take take things for granted like the ability to take pictures and record videos. Being able to actually see these images and not have to rely on memory is special it has enough power to bring you to tears in some cases. Pictures express who you are as a person. For me personally taking photographs is not only a way I express myself I do it as a way to relax and take in the world from a different view. Photographs are a part of human history, they show life, death and everything in between. Photos show how far we have came and what the future holds for mankind
In “is Google making Us Stupid ?” Carr the author touches upon reading concentration and how people think in general compared to earlier times. The article also talks about the internet and how it has changed the way we do everything and where google wants to be in the future and what they are doing now to get there. The article speaks about how styles of research have changed and how the style of thinking and writing have followed. It shows how news articles don’t get read as much and the way to promote things is with pop ups and adds. Carr is concerned on how much people are changing. I believe he has a strong point in the fact that people reading attention span has gone done over the years. I believe there is good in this as well unlike Carr. Since we are able to read quicker by the way of scanning or skimming over, we are able to read more and process information quicker and in more quantity. This allows everyone to work faster and get more things done in a day. This is shown in our advancements in almost everything from technology to medicine. I believe this has bettered the world drastically. Although I do see where Carr is coming from when he speaks about how people can’t read as much or for as long compared to the pre internet days. I do think this is will and is hurting mankind’s ability to think and process information at a deeper level with a true clear definition. To me Carr is right on the ball with some of the points he brings up. I believe Carr could be forseeing the future with robots having too much brain power and possibly taking over, with googles drive to have the best AI in the world this concerns me. Since google is a private company they do no need to tell anyone what they are actually doing they can hide behind the corporate walls. I think that it is not okay at all that google is able to track just about everything we do on the internet and make profits off that, even though I am currently writing this paper on a google doc. I can personally can see google becoming too big and powerful to be able to knock down.
I know I need to take out about all of the photography stuff I think I can run with the phone better.
