In our last reading, Gomez touches
on the idea that technology, though it has many benefits and has generally made
life easier, is still subject to failure. For instance, today essentially
everything is done on our personal computers: research, important documents, business,
entertainment, projects, assignments, etc. But if our computers were to crash,
we’d lose everything. Being a victim of such a crash, I personally felt, for
lack of a better term, stuck. Going to a school that required you to have a
laptop for every class, I was completely helpless; I couldn’t participate in
the online activities, I fell behind on my classwork, I just couldn’t keep up.
And even now when my current laptop runs particularly slow, I get unbelievably
frustrated and feel as if I can’t do anything until my laptop wants to actually
corporate.
Given
my past experiences with technology, I completely agree with Gomez for once. I
do think technology is great in the way that it does make things easier
especially from a student perspective. But I do think that we as people have
grown too dependent on technology to the point where it’s essentially a crutch.
No one wants to spend hours in a library, going through books to research a
specific topic when you can just Google it and get access to hundreds of
sources in less than a second.
Our
dependency on technology has made us more impatient and lazy. We live in a time
where instant gratification trumps hard work if we feel that the work might be
too time consuming. So when technology fails us, we, first get frustrated and
freak out, and then we look for the easiest and fastest way to solve the
problem even if it’s only a temporary fix. In a way, because technology has
made things so easy for us, my generation and future generations will never
quite value hard work in the same way as previous generations.
I agree i do think technology has made life easier. I can't imagine having to comb through books to find what I need, not when I have the great and powerful internet. I also think that because of how fast we have can get the information we need it has made us impatient. When my YouTube video buffers for like even a second I'm clicking the refresh page before I give it a chance. I don't know if it has made us lazy though, it takes quite of bit of time to weed through the articles on google for a paper.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a reason our generation is considered lazy. It’s the same reason our generation will have a shorter life span than previous generations. We are so obsessed with instant gratification that our population is willing to eat foods like McDonald’s in order to get that food as soon as possible. Don’t forget the instant release of endorphins caused by sugars that flood the brain and energy that comes from such high doses of “useless” carbs. That’s a rant for a different class. It’s just so sad that our brains have been twisted to focus on technology to such an extent. In Japan they were even trying out robots at nursing homes. They were hoping it would be successful and that technology could take care of us in that sense. It didn’t work.
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