Sunday, March 13, 2011
Blog 7
If I had to name it, this generation would be the "1-up" generation. It seems that no matter what piece of technology we have today, tomorrow brings something harder, better, faster, and stronger.(yes, i did). Through the materials of the course, the charts and graphs, the studies and observations, and finally the book of opinionated facts about people connecting in different ways-I am honestly only surprised that we have not progressed more so in technology. With all the time accumulated that we use on the internet or on cell phones, and we haven't come up with some other inhumane way of communication? Like, having a computer chip answer our phone calls, or having a more involved way of selling product. Even I had issues just getting the book for this course. I was over a month behind on readings because amazon.com decided that one-day-shipping should take three weeks. "What they really mean by one-day-shipping, is that it will ship to you one day after leaving the warehouse. Not one day after the order is processed" If we can make large contraptions fly, (aircraft), and we can make remote control cars life size (mythbusters), then why have we not been able to make transportation not rely on gasoline>money, and why can't we have cars so technologically advanced that they lock up and send out a gps signal for the criminal inside? >money. It is because we are paralyzed without technology the way that it is, and mainly money. It might hurt to progress further, for those who hold the dollar. I really hate to say this, but Zuckerman- has the right idea. Make money, and make it harder for things to progress so that your money making ways can't change.
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It does boil down to Money, technology is created and driven by money. Items are created by those with the money to find ways to capture more money from the "normal" person in a society. But on the flip side, without money what drives the need for more technology? Without the drive for money who's to say people would share their technologies with other people? What if Steve Jobs created the Ipad and he was the only one with it? What if I created a solar powered car but wouldn't let anyone else use it because of the old fashion comment "What's in it for me?" Money drives motivation to create the world we live in now, the funny part is nobody understands it's not about the money, it's about the power. Money is just a motive for the power, but thats an entirely different arguement right there isn't it...
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