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A Twist In Technology Brain cells churning, forehead heated, and my thoughts all becoming scrambled when the topic of or future is mentioned. What does the future hold in terms of the world’s technology? What kind of control do we, as citizens, have in determining what are unnecessary advances? Where do we draw the line? These are all questions that race through my head. In Bill Joy’s “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us,” a lot of issues concerning technological advances and their rate of discovery are mixed up into one big economic blender of issues. Unfortunately, this blender is set on ‘high’ and things are beginning to get way put of hand. I believe that through technology mediation, common sense, and guidance from positions of high power, that robotics can be a gradual, standardized, and beneficial study, rather than an issue for us to fear. Sometimes in our economy we have products on the market that are huge successes; some which are entertaining and others that are necessities. The downside of this is that some products outdate others. For example, think of the concept of a balance beam. 5 - 10 years ago was when people really started using the Internet and the primary foundation for most computers was Windows 95. But soon, as the Internet was becoming this new booming tool for marketing, advertisement, and entertainment, the more of a demand there was.
Approximate Word count = 894
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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