I found this article to be very interesting, it made me think about not only what cell phones will be like in the future, but also about what everything else will be like.
This passage spoke the most to me,
"Just imagine a device with an 8-inch fold-out screen, a big virtual keyboard for easy text input, numerous sensors to detect your surroundings, and software smart enough to anticipate your needs and sharp enough to respond to conversational commands.
Open up the device, point it at the street and ask it to show you what the place looked like 200 years ago, and it offers a photo or video. Ask it where to eat lunch and it highlights a restaurant that suits your tastes. If you are heatedly debating food choices with a companion when someone of marginal importance tries to call you, the phone will know better than to interrupt."
It reminded me and related my opinions to the TED video of how technology in the future will be. I think all these changes and advancements in technology that society is creating can either help or hurt, so many things have the potential to improve life as we know it like the discovery of treatments for seemingly incurable diseases or a cure for global warming, but then again technology can also potentially ruin everything the human race has strived for since time began. Eventually technology will be so incredibly advanced that people will not have to do anything for themselves, make anything for themselves, or even worse..think for themselves. It's thrilling to think of all the possibilities technology can generate, but I believe we have to be careful as to not let it get out of hand.
"It's thrilling to think of all the possibilities technology can generate, but I believe we have to be careful as to not let it get out of hand."
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I'm not too worried about technology taking us over like some sci-fi film....I think that tech is mainly helping us, not hurting us (except in extreme cases like the atomic bomb, of course).
Yeah, technology always has the chance of getting abused so we need to be careful.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe there will ever be a point in time where technology being used can not then be controlled if it were to get out of hand so there is nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteI think you made some really interesting points; technology can be a really incredible thing, but the human race has to be careful that "thinking" is not eliminated all together- i think that technology is good, but in moderation.
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