For class, I needed to create a podcast. I decided to include the text for those without speakers and who are hard of hearing. I couldn’t actually get it as a true m4a file, so I just made it into a quicktime and uploaded it to youtube, so there is no visual. Ewan McIntosh adressed the economic debate issue of whether technology actually simplifies our lives or not in his blog. McIntosh neither supported nor rejected this claim, but instead presented both sides in this post. I feel that it is easy to see how technology has crowded our lives with confusion. Between rebooting, reformatting, call waiting, spam, and online hackers it is hard to sometimes see how we are better off than “the good old days.” The question I have is “Does technology make our lives more complicated, or do we?” I think it is the latter. I believe that technology has absolutely made our lives more simple. It has succeeded almost perfectly. I stress the word almost. Telephones saved us loads of time from writing personal letters to anybody we wanted to be in contact with. E-mail made this even easier and quicker. Computers help us process information with the beat of an eye, store information and consolidate space by eliminating the need for endless filing cabinets. The list goes on. So where did this all get screwed up? I believe it was when we had all the spare time and eased stress when this was spoiled. We had free time and we clogged it up with more technological advances. Instead of using the time that we were given by the simplistic technology we just added more to our plate. If we want technology to be used as it was intended, we must learn not to serve our machines, but for them to serve us. This is a common problem among most things today. Lets be prudent about how we use our ‘conveniences.’
Tags: economic debate, Ewan McIntosh, technology
