I'm sure we all here like technology in one way or another, but what exactly do you like – and dislike – about technology and the direction it's taking?
I like how laptops are starting to get thinner in a way that it's easier to lug around with you, but it doesn't come without caveats. More and more devices are not as easy to customise right down to the little things like battery and RAM, so one is then forced into purchasing a newer model sooner rather than later. We essentially live in a throw away society. Soon everything will turn completely wireless and while that has it's own set of advantages, again, such doesn't come without disadvantages. More and more peripherals are starting to require newer models for them to work, and it's a practice that we will be seeing for a long time or for as long as we continue pushing forward. Everything comes at a cost.
This is one of the things I am in no favour of in terms of advancement. Rather than come out with the "next great thing" like for example 4K – heck, they even have 8K now – well, that's what they call it and it proved to be great marketing. I would rather companies concentrated on improving what they already have and make things work smoother and more backwards compatible with their own devices as well as third parties. Why can't they build on what they have rather than redesign? It's fairly amusing; better quality this and that because in the real world people seem to be accepting less quality. Photographs are taken on mobile phones and even used in TV production. Rushed Chroma keying on the news/weather forecast so one can see the fringing. Quality don't matter but getting the media (message) out there does. Music... most of us are accepting compressed formats that sound no where near as good as a CD. We watch streaming media, etc. The world is changing under the pretext of quality, but is it really as good as they make it seem to be?
Today, we are also consumed by technology and not in a good way. Apple has produced the most beautiful looking bugging devices disguised as a consumer product and people are prepared to sell their own kidney in order to buy it. That is outright terrifying.
I see technology on a larger scale for a way forward for the human race and maybe one day we will live in a larger space, or will we simply be a world of machines by that point. Honestly, something alien like that sometimes scare me despite knowing that it's highly likely to be our future. Machines have already started to take over as more and more people lose their jobs to advanced technologies like payment terminals, drones, etc. Maybe one day we will become a race of beings whose jobs will be to build the machines to do the jobs we used to do. Just add androids into the mix and things can get messed up. Technology can be really amazing, but there are days where I wish I was living in a deep forest abstained from any of it.
Truthfully, I have a love/hate relationship with technology. On the one hand it's amazing to see the possibilities that can be achieved if placed in the proper hands. On the other hand it's frightening at what rate technology seems to be evolving these days; we can only thank the fact that if things did not change so quickly we would not, for lack of a better word, progress. As human beings we are always pushing the boundaries in some kind of quest. Even as children we push the boundaries of life.
tl;dr technology makes a lot of things more convenient, and at the same time introduces a new set of inconvenience. We keep finding ways to do things the easier way.
I like how laptops are starting to get thinner in a way that it's easier to lug around with you, but it doesn't come without caveats. More and more devices are not as easy to customise right down to the little things like battery and RAM, so one is then forced into purchasing a newer model sooner rather than later. We essentially live in a throw away society. Soon everything will turn completely wireless and while that has it's own set of advantages, again, such doesn't come without disadvantages. More and more peripherals are starting to require newer models for them to work, and it's a practice that we will be seeing for a long time or for as long as we continue pushing forward. Everything comes at a cost.
This is one of the things I am in no favour of in terms of advancement. Rather than come out with the "next great thing" like for example 4K – heck, they even have 8K now – well, that's what they call it and it proved to be great marketing. I would rather companies concentrated on improving what they already have and make things work smoother and more backwards compatible with their own devices as well as third parties. Why can't they build on what they have rather than redesign? It's fairly amusing; better quality this and that because in the real world people seem to be accepting less quality. Photographs are taken on mobile phones and even used in TV production. Rushed Chroma keying on the news/weather forecast so one can see the fringing. Quality don't matter but getting the media (message) out there does. Music... most of us are accepting compressed formats that sound no where near as good as a CD. We watch streaming media, etc. The world is changing under the pretext of quality, but is it really as good as they make it seem to be?
Today, we are also consumed by technology and not in a good way. Apple has produced the most beautiful looking bugging devices disguised as a consumer product and people are prepared to sell their own kidney in order to buy it. That is outright terrifying.
I see technology on a larger scale for a way forward for the human race and maybe one day we will live in a larger space, or will we simply be a world of machines by that point. Honestly, something alien like that sometimes scare me despite knowing that it's highly likely to be our future. Machines have already started to take over as more and more people lose their jobs to advanced technologies like payment terminals, drones, etc. Maybe one day we will become a race of beings whose jobs will be to build the machines to do the jobs we used to do. Just add androids into the mix and things can get messed up. Technology can be really amazing, but there are days where I wish I was living in a deep forest abstained from any of it.
Truthfully, I have a love/hate relationship with technology. On the one hand it's amazing to see the possibilities that can be achieved if placed in the proper hands. On the other hand it's frightening at what rate technology seems to be evolving these days; we can only thank the fact that if things did not change so quickly we would not, for lack of a better word, progress. As human beings we are always pushing the boundaries in some kind of quest. Even as children we push the boundaries of life.
tl;dr technology makes a lot of things more convenient, and at the same time introduces a new set of inconvenience. We keep finding ways to do things the easier way.







