Wow... a lot happened within the past 5 minutes of watching this video. It´s pretty overwhelming how fast things occur within a blink of an eye.
"We are living in exponential times." This is great news for the Average Joe, who has become so spoiled with the new technologies he expects a curry dinner within 4 minutes - just by popping it in a glowing, radioactive box. What´s next? A teleporter? By the rate the video has pointed out, I wouldn´t be surprised if it happens within my lifetime.
What´s unsettling to me is not neccessarily the uncertainties of the future but the fact that "everyone" around me seems to be paranoid. For good reasons? Maybe, but since when is it not okay to be comforted by the unknown anymore? We´ve been using technology like maniacs to live/conduct/guide our lives to a point where if we were without it (for some UNGODLY reason) the world wouldn´t know what to do. Our markets, our networks, our food, and e-mails to our dearly loved ones across seas would fail.
I´m not trying to bash technology and all the its done for us (and will do) but it´s rediculous how dependent we are on it.
I guess I´ll need to put extra effort into exercising my brain rather than my fingers during my life.
1 in 8 couples have met online last year. “What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, internet don’t fail me, oh no…”
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. We all need a portrait; especially one that we all believe every other person likes to look at.
It is estimated that a week’s worth of the NYTimes contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century. Read this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google. It explains how the technologies we use change the way in which we think and understand things. With so much information injecting our minds daily, this slide show is just perfect. Perfect for the modern, globalized mind: it’s fast-flashing images of interesting and mind-boggling statistics, with numbers we can’t even really fathom, and future predictions that excite us like magic. Scary thing is, technology is obtaining the abilities of what we use to believe was just magic.
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. I wonder - if they could get the stats for it - how dumb we’ll be by the time we don’t need the pink sponges in our own heads. Maybe our brains will take on a new role by then, and become magnificently complex organisms that can decide which pair of shoes to buy. Oh, the day will soon come when happiness is truly bought.
And isn’t it true, that this presentation struck more fear in our minds than joy, faith, or hope?
Wow… wow. This video truly depicts how enormously fast the world is changing, and right before our eyes. It is incredible and somewhat frightening the statistics this video presents. The numbers presented such as the population of China and India. The fact that 1 in 8 couples married in the United States last year met online, and the prediction that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species seems absolutely unreal to me.
It is amazing how fast our society is changing. Not only is the population growing immensely, but technology is quickly becoming the center piece of knowledge and communications. It frightens me how reliant our society has become on technology, and as depicted on the video the future of technology will hold even greater magnitude.
This video is pretty insane. The future of society is so unpredictable. We have progressed so quickly in the past twenty odd years and that rate at which we will progress technologically will be exponentially greater. What are we all doing? This video made me feel insignificant.
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992,but today there are more text messages sent daily than there are people in the world. For me this is great example of the dependence humans have on instant stimulation. We are consistently in need of some sort of technological stimulation. In particular it seems that we need to feel connected to other people. Texting is somewhat of a phenomenon that I've paid close attention to in the last couple of years. It has become a staple form of communication for teens and young adults. Though it would be more much more convenient to make phone calls most of the time we chose to exercise our fingers instead. We are afraid of talking on the phone. I make no sense.
I don't want to undermine the significance that technology has in our lives but what I'm most afraid of is that as technology improves we will forget how to communicate in natural ways. It's hard to live simply but I would like to become less dependent on technology. This is crazy. The choice of music for the video was important for the purpose of the video too. Think about it? PEACE
This video irritating not stimulating. I do not want to know that in 2013 there MIGHT be a computer that will cost $1000 and will exceed my brain´s capacity. These are doomsday prophecies. Yes technological advancements seemingly move at the speed of light. But marveling at how many couples met online last year will not change our behaviors.
There is a book by columnist Thomas Friedman entitled¨"the World is Flat." It is filled with anecdotes about outsourcing and the need for higher and higher levels of education. it is interesting but I cant help but feel these anecdotes and mindboggling facts are a scare tactic to find a solution that does not exist.
The final slide asked "What does it mean?" It means we are a progressing, evolving, slaves of consumption, at the mercy of technology. We are living in an intertwined globalized world. It is our reality. So deal with it.
The thing that stuck with me from this video is the whole concept of text messaging because I think that is what I can relate to the most. My dad is always yelling at me for going over the text messaging plan we have. He does not understand why we don't just call someone and why we all are using text. I actually consider myself to be less dependent on text messaging compared to most people I know. I actually don't even like using it, but now it seems to be part of everyday life for teenagers and young adults. It is incredible to think that the first text was sent in 1992 and now text messages each day exceeds the population of the entire world.
The rate at which technology is improving is unbelievable, but what I think that the worst fear of this is that a degree in a technological field is outdated by the time you graduate. For the most part, I think that improvements in technology is aimed to better society, however there are always negative side effects to everything.
I think the irony with modern tele-communication is that the more it brings us together, the further it brings us apart. By utlizing resources such as text and facebook, we publish comments more than carry conversations. We are soley promoter´s of our own words, rather than free thinkers.
Surprisingly this video didn't scare me all that much. The facts were certainly impressive, and even intimidating in the sense of their enormity, but not all that instructive. I saw the facts as less proof of technology taking over our lives but rather a reflection of society's contemporary priorities. People are driven to learn more, communicate more, have more, etc. and we are achieving these goals by rapidly advancing technologies. I think it's important to remember that the driving force behind those millions of text messages and hyper advanced computers are the people creating them and not autonomous machines multiplying by themselves. While I don't agree with all of modern society's priorities or think that these increased technologies are actually bringing people closer together, I don't think it's realistic to yearn for a return to days without these advances. We are preparing students for jobs that have yet to exist; we are creating technologies to solve problems that we don't have yet. Well what should we do instead? The reality is that the world is always in flux and even if we put down the phone or get off facebook, those rapid evolutions are not going to stop. Technology is going to go as far as we take it. Human interactions are going evolve, or even disintegrate, as much as we want/ allow them too. I might like my modern comforts more than I'd like to admit but I'm not at the mercy of their will. I guess the video just irritated me a little because I felt, similar to Liz, it's addressing a set of facts, that while being entertaining, for the most part don't really matter. A computer will be created that surpasses a human's computational abilities. I already trust a calculator far more than my own mathematical abilities and frankly, I'm comfortable with that. I would have thought better of the video if it had stressed some readjustment of our society's priorities rather than just settling for a climactic ending. The world is changing and we do have to deal with it. I think the record of creation that the video shows is proof that we are capable of confronting a new world reality; the real issue is motivation.
Well that was entertaining. I found the video to be mildly entertaining and some of the "facts" to be interesting but frankly, and this may sound ignorant or childish but I can't find the strength to care that much. I know that I'm not going to be able to stop the constant ebb and flow of technology in this era so I might as well go along for the ride.
I can remember getting our first family computer, caller ID, and I certainly remember surviving without it. Life without cell phones was fine. Life with them is fine. I can't deny all the miracles technology has been able to perform (especially medically) but I also can't deny all the negative aspects of it.
I certainly use less technology here in Spain since phones here are expensive and I have to steal spotty WiFi from another building on the block. I don't feel more or less fulfilled because I use technology less often than I did in the U.S.
I don't like to think too much about how technology dictates daily lives, but it's here to stay. And considering we're using a blog to do our homework, I can pretty much safely say we've come to terms with at least some of technology and embraced it.
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Wow... a lot happened within the past 5 minutes of watching this video. It´s pretty overwhelming how fast things occur within a blink of an eye.
"We are living in exponential times." This is great news for the Average Joe, who has become so spoiled with the new technologies he expects a curry dinner within 4 minutes - just by popping it in a glowing, radioactive box. What´s next? A teleporter? By the rate the video has pointed out, I wouldn´t be surprised if it happens within my lifetime.
What´s unsettling to me is not neccessarily the uncertainties of the future but the fact that "everyone" around me seems to be paranoid. For good reasons? Maybe, but since when is it not okay to be comforted by the unknown anymore? We´ve been using technology like maniacs to live/conduct/guide our lives to a point where if we were without it (for some UNGODLY reason) the world wouldn´t know what to do. Our markets, our networks, our food, and e-mails to our dearly loved ones across seas would fail.
I´m not trying to bash technology and all the its done for us (and will do) but it´s rediculous how dependent we are on it.
I guess I´ll need to put extra effort into exercising my brain rather than my fingers during my life.
1 in 8 couples have met online last year.
“What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, internet don’t fail me, oh no…”
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace.
We all need a portrait; especially one that we all believe every other person likes to look at.
It is estimated that a week’s worth of the NYTimes contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
Read this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google. It explains how the technologies we use change the way in which we think and understand things. With so much information injecting our minds daily, this slide show is just perfect. Perfect for the modern, globalized mind: it’s fast-flashing images of interesting and mind-boggling statistics, with numbers we can’t even really fathom, and future predictions that excite us like magic. Scary thing is, technology is obtaining the abilities of what we use to believe was just magic.
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.
I wonder - if they could get the stats for it - how dumb we’ll be by the time we don’t need the pink sponges in our own heads. Maybe our brains will take on a new role by then, and become magnificently complex organisms that can decide which pair of shoes to buy. Oh, the day will soon come when happiness is truly bought.
And isn’t it true, that this presentation struck more fear in our minds than joy, faith, or hope?
Wow… wow. This video truly depicts how enormously fast the world is changing, and right before our eyes. It is incredible and somewhat frightening the statistics this video presents. The numbers presented such as the population of China and India. The fact that 1 in 8 couples married in the United States last year met online, and the prediction that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species seems absolutely unreal to me.
It is amazing how fast our society is changing. Not only is the population growing immensely, but technology is quickly becoming the center piece of knowledge and communications. It frightens me how reliant our society has become on technology, and as depicted on the video the future of technology will hold even greater magnitude.
This video is pretty insane. The future of society is so unpredictable. We have progressed so quickly in the past twenty odd years and that rate at which we will progress technologically will be exponentially greater. What are we all doing? This video made me feel insignificant.
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992,but today there are more text messages sent daily than there are people in the world. For me this is great example of the dependence humans have on instant stimulation. We are consistently in need of some sort of technological stimulation. In particular it seems that we need to feel connected to other people. Texting is somewhat of a phenomenon that I've paid close attention to in the last couple of years. It has become a staple form of communication for teens and young adults. Though it would be more much more convenient to make phone calls most of the time we chose to exercise our fingers instead. We are afraid of talking on the phone. I make no sense.
I don't want to undermine the significance that technology has in our lives but what I'm most afraid of is that as technology improves we will forget how to communicate in natural ways. It's hard to live simply but I would like to become less dependent on technology. This is crazy. The choice of music for the video was important for the purpose of the video too. Think about it?
PEACE
This video irritating not stimulating. I do not want to know that in 2013 there MIGHT be a computer that will cost $1000 and will exceed my brain´s capacity. These are doomsday prophecies. Yes technological advancements seemingly move at the speed of light. But marveling at how many couples met online last year will not change our behaviors.
There is a book by columnist Thomas Friedman entitled¨"the World is Flat." It is filled with anecdotes about outsourcing and the need for higher and higher levels of education. it is interesting but I cant help but feel these anecdotes and mindboggling facts are a scare tactic to find a solution that does not exist.
The final slide asked "What does it mean?" It means we are a progressing, evolving, slaves of consumption, at the mercy of technology. We are living in an intertwined globalized world. It is our reality. So deal with it.
The thing that stuck with me from this video is the whole concept of text messaging because I think that is what I can relate to the most. My dad is always yelling at me for going over the text messaging plan we have. He does not understand why we don't just call someone and why we all are using text. I actually consider myself to be less dependent on text messaging compared to most people I know. I actually don't even like using it, but now it seems to be part of everyday life for teenagers and young adults. It is incredible to think that the first text was sent in 1992 and now text messages each day exceeds the population of the entire world.
The rate at which technology is improving is unbelievable, but what I think that the worst fear of this is that a degree in a technological field is outdated by the time you graduate. For the most part, I think that improvements in technology is aimed to better society, however there are always negative side effects to everything.
I think the irony with modern tele-communication is that the more it brings us together, the further it brings us apart. By utlizing resources such as text and facebook, we publish comments more than carry conversations. We are soley promoter´s of our own words, rather than free thinkers.
Surprisingly this video didn't scare me all that much. The facts were certainly impressive, and even intimidating in the sense of their enormity, but not all that instructive. I saw the facts as less proof of technology taking over our lives but rather a reflection of society's contemporary priorities. People are driven to learn more, communicate more, have more, etc. and we are achieving these goals by rapidly advancing technologies. I think it's important to remember that the driving force behind those millions of text messages and hyper advanced computers are the people creating them and not autonomous machines multiplying by themselves.
While I don't agree with all of modern society's priorities or think that these increased technologies are actually bringing people closer together, I don't think it's realistic to yearn for a return to days without these advances. We are preparing students for jobs that have yet to exist; we are creating technologies to solve problems that we don't have yet. Well what should we do instead? The reality is that the world is always in flux and even if we put down the phone or get off facebook, those rapid evolutions are not going to stop.
Technology is going to go as far as we take it. Human interactions are going evolve, or even disintegrate, as much as we want/ allow them too. I might like my modern comforts more than I'd like to admit but I'm not at the mercy of their will. I guess the video just irritated me a little because I felt, similar to Liz, it's addressing a set of facts, that while being entertaining, for the most part don't really matter. A computer will be created that surpasses a human's computational abilities. I already trust a calculator far more than my own mathematical abilities and frankly, I'm comfortable with that. I would have thought better of the video if it had stressed some readjustment of our society's priorities rather than just settling for a climactic ending. The world is changing and we do have to deal with it. I think the record of creation that the video shows is proof that we are capable of confronting a new world reality; the real issue is motivation.
Well that was entertaining. I found the video to be mildly entertaining and some of the "facts" to be interesting but frankly, and this may sound ignorant or childish but I can't find the strength to care that much. I know that I'm not going to be able to stop the constant ebb and flow of technology in this era so I might as well go along for the ride.
I can remember getting our first family computer, caller ID, and I certainly remember surviving without it. Life without cell phones was fine. Life with them is fine. I can't deny all the miracles technology has been able to perform (especially medically) but I also can't deny all the negative aspects of it.
I certainly use less technology here in Spain since phones here are expensive and I have to steal spotty WiFi from another building on the block. I don't feel more or less fulfilled because I use technology less often than I did in the U.S.
I don't like to think too much about how technology dictates daily lives, but it's here to stay. And considering we're using a blog to do our homework, I can pretty much safely say we've come to terms with at least some of technology and embraced it.
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