The accessibility of technology is the most helpful aspect of technology being in our lives. We can do anything from anywhere. I've even seen Facebook posts from the top of Mt. Everest. We have the unrivaled ability to multitask. Alarms set on phones, dates and times, full schedules, everything on our phones at our fingertips. It's making us more proficient and more efficient. Aaron Lynn makes a comment along these same lines in the blog Asian Efficiency:
"If you really stop and think about it, this is revolutionary. At your fingertips, you have a device that connects you with your finances, your workout routine, the latest news from around the world, the latest shopping catalogues and information, and every social network you can imagine. All on-the-go."
But do we really stop to think about it? Not these days. We go about our lives with something in our pockets that would be completely foreign to 1990's us for sure. I think we have reached the peak though of how much technology should be in our lives. I fear that if we continue to be more wrapped up in our technology, we will become more lazy and less productive. The task manager on an Android phone will be sacrificed for another installment of Angry Birds. As we lose the productivity aspect for entertainment, what are we really losing? We're losing the purpose the phone was actually meant to serve...To put this concept into perspective, I ask you one last question...genuinely, how many phone calls do you make on your phone? My answer was well, not that many. If we continue the way we are going, we're going to lose the purpose of the phone, or the purpose of our computers, or the purpose of any technology. If it gets too advanced, we will lose our productivity, and that is a problem in my eyes.
Source:
Lynn, Aaron. "Sync: How Technology Makes Us More Efficient." Asian Efficiency. N.p., 24 Jan 2012. Web. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.asianefficiency.com/technology/sync-how-technology-makes-us-more-efficient/>.
Source:
Lynn, Aaron. "Sync: How Technology Makes Us More Efficient." Asian Efficiency. N.p., 24 Jan 2012. Web. Web. 9 Oct. 2012. <http://www.asianefficiency.com/technology/sync-how-technology-makes-us-more-efficient/>.
I agree with the idea that one day we might lose the purpose of the phone. I often think to myself: "why did I buy an iphone? I barely call anyone, why did I need to get something so sophisticated?" and the answer is because of everything else it does. I can text faster, everything is laid out in front of me and I barely have to do anything. I am completely useless when it comes to phones other than the iphone; I have no idea how they work. It's true that a cell phone isn't really a cell phone anymore. It's a pocket computer. I do agree that we really need to think about how much farther we should go with them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that especially since I barely make phone calls on my cell phone. Nowadays cell phones are more for texting since we can communicate with an unlimited amount of people at one time. My cell phone is big part of my everyday life and it isn't even used for the main purpose. I am constantly on my cell phone but I'm never talking on it. At times it seems like cell phones are more for entertainment than anything else. People always want the phone that does the most, and not the phone that is the best for talking on.
ReplyDeleteI was reading somewhere that they are trying to make holographic phone reminders. Kind of like a personal secretary. Apple is trying to get on that idea, but the Iphone already, like Libby just said above, is a pocket computer. You can do everything but cook on your phone. It's sad really. I like to call people instead of texting sometimes but I do a lot of web searches on it and texting. It almost seems that we are soon going to be in an age were really no one makes calls anymore. Which is really sad, I personally love hearing people's voices. It's more personal and comforting.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree simply because I do text a lot on my phone, but I also call people just as much, simply because most of my family does not text and if I need to get ahold of them I must call. Also some of my friends don't have cell phones so they can't text, I either have to call their house phone or contact them on facebook or some other form of messaging to talk to them.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I never use my phone for communication purposes, usually I use it for music and reminders. As Libby states above, I ask myself the same question, "why do I need such a fancy phone when I do nothing with it, especially it's main purpose: communication."
ReplyDelete"I fear that if we continue to be more wrapped up in our technology, we will become more lazy and less productive" <-- this is also supporting my statement above. I am so wrapped up in the gadgets of my phone instead of the phone itself. For an example, I rather press "play" on my ipod for a song to play instead of "call." I dread calling people and even texting people for that matter, I literally feel my fingertips become lazy. My point being here, what you want will give you a more desire to do it and what is being given to you, makes you lazy.