A few days ago, my mom bought a kindle. I had never been a huge fan of them, because I liked the idea of holding on to the actual book while reading it. This brought me to thinking about where technology was headed in the future. The crowd of Kindle and Nook users seem to becoming younger and younger. Do that mean in the future our kids going to first learn to read on an e-reader? To me, it's a weird thought. Remembering my childhood and learning how to read, I remember looking closely at the pictures on the page, and the books that i especially liked were those that you would flip open a picture to discover another picture. The Kindle and Nook would never have the same effect, though.
But looking at this topic on a broader level, something else i have always wondered, was if we would ever take it too far. Technology is a way of making our lives easier and more simple. But in the long run, it has a very negative effect on our society; the main problem being energy and pollution. With more and more gadgets being released, it seems we become much lazier. Everything has to be done automatically for us. This triggers many people to think of robots. Could they take over our jobs, so people are left doing nothing?
With every new item coming out, it makes us wonder is there really more to come, and is this really good in the long run.
This is a very good post Emily! I think that of course we're going to take the technology craze too far. We created it, not anyone else. Therefore, we would have created any boundaries. But that's the thing. We did not in fact created boundaries. Therefore, we are at total liberty to go as far as we want with these crazy kindles, nooks and iPads. I think that it would be awful if the children of our future never pick up a book in their lifetime, but I believe that it is probably going to happen.
But looking at this topic on a broader level, something else i have always wondered, was if we would ever take it too far. Technology is a way of making our lives easier and more simple. But in the long run, it has a very negative effect on our society; the main problem being energy and pollution. With more and more gadgets being released, it seems we become much lazier. Everything has to be done automatically for us. This triggers many people to think of robots. Could they take over our jobs, so people are left doing nothing?
This is a very good post Emily! I think that of course we're going to take the technology craze too far. We created it, not anyone else. Therefore, we would have created any boundaries. But that's the thing. We did not in fact created boundaries. Therefore, we are at total liberty to go as far as we want with these crazy kindles, nooks and iPads. I think that it would be awful if the children of our future never pick up a book in their lifetime, but I believe that it is probably going to happen.
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