Overall

Overall I think that technology is a great thing but we need to be careful. On this blog we have all talked about some advantages and some disadvantages. It goes to show you it is a great thing but we shouldn't rely on it and we shouldn't allow it to take over. It is also a personal choice on how much you chose to use it and how much you allow it in your life. We all just need to remember that it is not a necessity, our grandparent lived without a lot of technology and so can we if we chose to.:)

This cartoon just shows how technology is so involved in peoples lives. Now with cellphones and emails there is very little face to face communication between people. Even families now are communicating with eachother through technology because its easier than talking face to face. This can create problem with relationships because u cant really have a relationship that is based all off of virtual communication. Technology is even playing a big parts in the younger generation of kids were they are getting cellphones at young ages and video games. This cartoon just kinda shows how the family is sitting down to have dinner but now at the time when most people sit down and talk about their day and what s going on in their lives they are still emailing and talking on the phone and not face to face talking with eachother. Virtual communication has become the social norm these days.

Privacy

Although there are a lot of advantages there is disadvantages to technology as well .Like,how people have no privacy. Now with google maps people can see your house anytime they want. With blackberries companies give there employees them which seems great, but really that way they can reach you whenever they want. It is like you never can fully be alone with e-mail, cellphones, text, facebook, ext. I personally think it is getting a bit out of control. People updating their twitter ever 10 minutes , I mean really do we need to know what you are doing every moment of your day?? Lots of these thing were first made for people to connect with people they didn't see all the time which is great but that is not where it stop. People are so attached to their cellphones now, sometime I feel like maybe if I text them at least they would pay attention. It's like people don't even know how to interact with others face to face anymore.

I have to agree with kelsey post "The future" there are a lot of advantage to technology, but they are slowly diminishing. People rely so much on technology today, like in the old days our grandparent could do any type of math just using their heads and a piece of paper. Now kids hardly know what 6 X 7 is without using a calculator. We rely so much on technology today that I feel if we had everything taken away from us the younger generation would know how to survive. As well todays younger generations grammar has become so poor, because they are use to short forming everything. Which is more important convince or knowing how to live without technology?????

I feel there are a lot of advantages to technology. People now with different jobs have to travel all over the world to work. With email now connected to our blackberries we can connect with anyone, anywhere when we have a quick moment. Also with web cameras people are able to see there mom or dad who are in the army, that other wise would have no contact with if it wasn't for technology. My dad live half way around the world in thailand if it wasn't for technology I would have no contact with him. Technology is literally contact people all over the world.

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The Future

It is quite evident that technology today has many advantages within our schooling and working lives. More information is viewable and accessible at any given time. I do, however, believe that the advantages may slowly diminish while technology advances in the future. It is unreal in today's world how much it consumes peoples lives, and I believe we are only going to get more caught up with it in the future. Like in many futuristic movies released lately, I believe it will not be long until we find ourselves caught up with it and depending on technology to create, and eventually operate our world. Even now, we find ourselves leaning more towards technology on assembly lines and in many manufacturing situations to take the physical "work load" off of humans. But this also leads to less need and desire for physical labour, thus resulting in less job opportunities and advances for people.