First off, I would like to take the
time to say Ms. Jardine basically put me to sleep. At least she could have thrown some music in there for
background, but I know that wasn’t happening. She spoke so monotone that I just could not really focus on
what she was saying. She spoke
with an accent and that didn’t help much either. So in all reality I was not really interested in what she
was saying.
That
podcast did not change my opinion about Google. As technology continues to grow, I feel people as lacking
personal experiences. For example,
if someone sits inside and plays countless hours of video games – that person
is not receiving the proper social skills needed to communicate with others. So for some people that are using
technology to benefit their lives are lacking in a different area.
People
just go crazy over the newest piece of technology. According to The Guardian, “Apple sells 5-million iPhone 5’s
in the first three days.” Just
because it is the newest and best piece of technology, what makes the old stuff
so bad? So what makes the iPhone 4
so terrible? Oh that’s why!
Because the iPhone 5 has a few more updates and it is the new thing. I just find that outrageous. People are not grateful with what they
have.
This type of technology this will
be coming out could make people even lazier than we are now. Just in your glasses can you take
pictures, face time, tweet, text, call, etc… So it is other stuff rather than
just Google making us lazy. Google
is not as bad – but it is still responsible as being a culprit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnB06um5r4
Rushe, D.
(2012). iPhone 5: Apple sells 5 million in first three days. The Guardian.
Retrieved September 24, 2012. from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/24/iphone5-apple-sales-first-weekend
I agree with you Jeremy. There are other contributing factors to what makes us lazy and I believe that the more in-house activities that continue to become available the more lazy we will be. Just look at the health statistics that loom on every front. In some respects I can appreciate that I grew up without computers all around me. It allowed for me to get outside and get dirty and scrape a knee or two.
ReplyDeleteMs. Jardine was indeed difficult to stay focused on and I hesitate to place all the blame for laziness and the hastiness that people take in acquiring the latest in technological gadgets but at the same time, there should be some culpability here. Too people need to take some responsibility for what really is important in their lives and forge ahead from there.
Ms. Jardine almost put me to sleep as well and I had to replay the podcast a few times in order to full understand what she was talking about. You are right though, we cannot put all of the blame on google for our own mental laziness.
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