For me, the technology is just like a door which brings me to an absolutely new world. It is also like a wire that connects me and the outside world. The first thing that I do before getting up and the last thing that I do before going asleep is checking my cell phone. Every day, I do homework, write blogs, send and receive emails, take photos, know about the latest news, and chat with friends with the aid of technologies. My attitude toward technology is complex. I am obsessed with technology which makes my life more convenient, but I am also afraid of it because I find that I cannot cut it out.
My earliest interactions with technology were about video games. When I was young, there was a family computer that my parents bought for my brother. Most of the time, I watched my brother playing video games with it. When my brother went out, I was able to play it for a while. My favorite game was Super Mario. When playing the game, I used the controls to jump, run, and shoot a fireball, eating mushroom and flowers and defeating enemies. I felt that the whole word was under my control, which made me excited and confident. Although the gamepad as well as the game screen was not good at that time, the family computer and the video games brought lots of happiness for me.
When I was in junior high school, I began to take information technology classes. The course was an eye-opener for me. I learned much useful and practical computer knowledge and skills from the course, such as how
has impact our world to the point of no return. The world is a social media cyclone meaning it’s a hurricane taking over, and it cannot be avoided in anyway. Even if you tried to ignore what is happening in technology it would be introduced to you by a friend or a family member no matter what your circumstances are. You could be a monk or practicing some type of religion that don’t allow for the use today’s technology at all.
Technology has been a huge factor in my life. If I could recall throughout my years, there has not been a moment that I've been without technology. Some people may feel that technology is overrated and becomes a major distraction, but I see different. I believe that technology has advanced our lives so that we, as people, can advance. As an twenty year old college student, technology has helped me grasp and understand many aspects around me, including athletics, social media, art, and more relatable subjects. There were many times in my life that technology has improved my life, but three opportunities stand out the most. There was the time I interacted with my celebrities on twitter(2015), creating my first social site(2007), and receiving my first laptop and Iphone.
Technology has molded the way I go about my daily life. In my youth, I was drawn to computers like a magnet as early as one year old. When I was young, my dad programmed our old computer to play a clip of my voice saying, “Good Job!”whenever the computer was turned on. I thought it was fascinating that he was able to make my voice somehow project from the computer. Later in life, after I received my first personal laptop from my parents as a gift, I became captivated by the components of computers and the process that took place in building them as well.
I loved to play in the math arcade at school and at home. Once we were introduced to Microsoft PowerPoint, I fell in love. I would spend hours on our computer making different slide shows. I took a computer class from elementary though ninth grade. In tenth grade, my school became one-to-one, and we all received iPads. We started using them to take notes, read PDFs, and various novels. We had all the information we needed at our fingertips. Having iPads helped to improve my skills with technology. My junior year, I took digital photography and graphic design. I absolutely loved them. We learned to use all aspects of Photoshop. My favorite project that we did was taking our pictures from digital photography and making them into a book for graphic design. I took the skills I learned junior year and applied them to my Yearbook class during my senior year. It was so much fun to creatively use technology to create the yearbook. Since coming to college, the technology I have used has mostly been limited to writing papers and taking notes on my laptop. Outside of school, I use technology everyday with my computer and phone. Over winter break, I spent hours with my neighbor helping her transfer and organize pictures from her phone to computer. This task seemed so simple to me, but very daunting to my neighbor. Technology skills come so naturally to my generation because we’ve grown up with computers.
I started middle school when we moved to Rochester Hill’s from Ann Arbor. Our new blended family (my mother remarried) had several computers and other new technological devices, as did most of the homes in the affluent community in which we lived. Home pc’s became a useful tool in middle school; I surfed the net, wrote papers, and researched articles over the Internet. My whole family became engulfed with the technology wave. Our extended family and close friends eventually all came to a point where they used some sort of pc or computing device in their everyday lives. Computers made it easy to communicate, and because our family and relatives lived a good distance apart we were able to effectively chat and email our way out of “snail mail.”
Young people spend 27 or more hours a week on the Internet (Anderson). As society moves on, technology will keep diffusing and changing drastically; opening more possibilities for newer and undiscovered innovations to take over. Technology can be found anywhere from phones to cars that people drive every day. As technology advances, scientists and doctors have started an altercation between those who believe new tech will teach communities and strengthen our knowledge and others who believe that inventing untested gadgets will only corrupt the nation and affect students at work. Although people view technology as an important tool of the future, technology can be more harmful to society as students become distracted, leading to health concerns, and influencing people to cyberbully.
1) Based on the resources provided above, how would you define technology? Be sure to use your own words!
My early experience with technology was playing games on my parent’s cell phones and watching television as a child. My mom use to sit me on the couch as a baby and turn on blue’s clues and give me a big bowl of Cheetos puffs and she said I would not move, she said I would be glued to the television and it was like I was amazed by the pictures running across the screen.
Technology is an extremely confusing phenomenon. People see technology through different lens and thus treats technology in different ways. For the most part people are creatures of habit. Once they use technology in a certain way, they continue to use it in that way – unless some outside “x-factor” is introduced. Not only do people use habits in technology, everything is built on their habits. This creates a unique tapestry of how they use and understand technology. In essence, everybody uses technology to suit their own personality.
Technology has changed so many of the ways in which we live our lives, from the invention of the wheel to the advanced systems we use and take for granted everyday. Technology was once taboo in most house holds while people still clung to the idea that life was built on life experiences. Nicholas Carr stated in, Is Goggle making us stupid? "Back in the fourth century, BCE, Plato complained that writing (then a fairly new technology) was destroying peoples memory, yet he wrote dozens of books. For half a century, television has been accused of rotting our brains and making us fat and lazy, but most people depend on it for info, news and entertainment." Technology has changed our understanding of the way things work and
This would indicate there would be an increase of females working within the technology field, and this rapid change in the way we as humans communicate would indicate the information age demands parents to be consistently up to date with the latest innovations of technology. Both genders would have to be aware of basic computing knowledge, the home would require internet access and parents would be required to be at an above average understanding of word processing.
Have you ever been in a room with a bunch of people and when you look around you notice everyone is on their phones? It seems that today technology has become something that we need, something that we cannot live without. Everywhere you go you see people on phones, laptops, ipods, tablets etc. Manufacturers are working hard to make sure technology is constantly adapting and progressing. Manufacturers compete to make the latest devices, and customers demand the newest and best version. In the news, on TV, or in magazines you can see that technology is reaching new levels each and every day. On a daily basis, companies are advertising new and upcoming technology whether it is a new update, a new app or even a newer device. I feel that in this day and age, technology is causing an addiction that prevents people from being physically social. Those affected by the addiction are zoned into that bright screen, and are not focussed on family, friends or even their job.
Technological advances have certainly entered this era to facilitate people’s lives. There is no doubt that some new technology has been created to help operate or effectively manage time in a way that would be beneficial to humans. Technology significantly helps a number of people. A group that greatly benefits with the advances of technology is teenagers. Teens constantly use computers for schoolwork, networking, or knowing anything they want to know with a simple use of their fingertips. Furthermore, with the advances it is no longer needed to leave the household to run an errand such as going out to pay a bill or do some shopping. As technology advances and enters the life of mostly all humans many begin to question how healthy these technological advances truly are. A couple of decades ago kids spent their time outside playing with their friends by the same token with items that did not require the use of electricity. Kids and adolescents would dedicate at least a part of their day to reading books and gaining knowledge from there instead of social media. Distinctively today’s adolescents instead of reading books will go on the internet for a summary and inform themselves in less than 5 minutes, spent their time inside playing video games or on their cellphones allowing technology to be the only thing they know and rely on to have fun or be informed. Moreover, this guides us to the points Ray Bradbury makes in his novel Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury touches on several
Technology is used daily in businesses and in homes. The most useful is business technology because without the people in the background creating and developing the technology, there would not be any technology at home. There is a variety of different modules in developing technology and its encryptions that prevents the systems data from being public to anyone to use for their own personal use. In this report, I will be reporting what I researched about a specific company that has pros and cons just like any other company. The Systems, Applications, and Products company is a company built from a group of people that did not like how a certain system was set up. Instead of this group of people complaining about the system and not doing anything about it; they decided to solve the problems themselves by branching out of that company and creating their own. The SAP company is constantly growing and is still to this day the number one company with Oracle following not too far behind. These companies, like many others like them, have developed a way to make normally hard processes simpler.
With this new glass of Merlot by my side, I sit and wonder at the amazement of technology. Each velvety sip opens me up in my corner a little more just as technology has done so for the world. But now I must go off and ponder further on into an important philosophical question of whether this technology, endless as it has come to be, should be considered as a thing that has brought out the best or the worst in society. How complex a question! Surely I could easily look back fondly and count the many ways that technology and its manifold presence has been nothing but a blessing, not only to facilitating human kind, but also our intrinsic pursuit of society. But now, as easy as that might be, it would be a more healthy venture to play the