Everyone always talks about what Technology has done to
positively promote our society.
The computer, cell phones, the Internet, Google, social media,
smart phones: all of these inventions have brought about an ease and level of
engagement in our daily lives that wasn’t there before.
Take this article for example:
Because of the modern day technology available in classrooms students
are excelling, in this case, on the AP calculus test. Technology has transformed the traditional classroom and not
only enhanced it but through video lectures and online homework made it
accessible from anywhere. In the
article IT Opportunities in the Education
Market (http://www.comptia.org/news/pressreleases/11-06-28/Making_the_Grade_Technology_Helps_Boosts_Student_Performance_Staff_Productivity_in_Nation%E2%80%99s_Schools_New_CompTIA_Study_Finds.aspx)
it is revealed that 78% of K-12 teachers feel technology has positively
impacted their classroom. And 65%
of those educators surveyed feel that students are more productive today than
three years ago because of the increased technology available in the
classroom. Woohoo!
What about this (a little bigger scale) example:
According to FOX Business, “satellites were critical in the rescues of
295 people from life-threatening situations throughout the United states and its
surrounding waters” (National Ocean Atmospheric Administration). These
satellites work with Russia’s COSPAS spacecraft as part of an international
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking System ( COSPAS-SARSAT for short…not
kidding). Technology is saving human
lives! In the old days if you got
ship wrecked you just had to live on a deserted island with a volleyball and
deal with it until you could figure out how to make a raft but not anymore. Thank God Russia can track your every
move and find you if you ever get lost…
Ok, one last example:
CBS News says Smart Phones are saving lives. After natural disasters there is a new App that could,
“streamline aid following natural disasters by helping to locate missing
people, direct them to safe zones…and even help identify those suffering from
malnutrition”. And you thought the
best reason for that Iphone was Temple Run...noob.
Technology and the continued advancement of our culture is a snowball
that just keeps getting bigger in a snowball fight that just keeps getting better. Especially with the invention of the Smart Phone and the
ability to take our phone-sized small computers everywhere. There is really no
place technology hasn’t touched.
Our society depends heavily on it and our youth are so exposed to it
they don’t even remember a time when they could be more than 10 feet away from
their cell phone and not start hyperventilating.
Speaking of Smart Phones... Oh, do you want to know something that really burns me
up about Smart Phones?
I HATE it when: People with smart phones talk on their
blue tooth’s. I freakin’ hate blue tooth
technology. Here’s why you should
never use blue tooth:
- You look like you’re talking to yourself and that makes you look crazy and I don’t want to grocery shop next to crazy people who talk to themselves.
- Worse: I think you’re talking to me. So when I answer your dump question in the grocery aisle as to what pizza sauce you should get and you look at me like I’m an idiot and point to your ear I AM NOT THE CRAZY ONE!
- You are constantly talking loudly, and pulling from the point #1, you are talking loudly TO YOURSELF. Don’t look at me like I’m crazy because I asked you to repeat a question when we’re the only two people in an aisle because if I’m standing on the wrong side of your head I don’t know that your talking on the phone.
- If you are not dressed in a business suit talking about your very high up position in a company: you look like a tool.
I HATE it when: I’m trying to have a conversation and
you cannot talk to me without surfing on your phone.
Smart phones have absolutely destroyed America’s attention span. We never have to be bored because the
whole world’s Internet is at the tips of our fingers. If a conversation lulls, you check your phone. If a movie gets boring, you check your
phone. If we’re at dinner in March
and your team is playing, you check your phone. Sweet, because the conversation I was just having with you
now really feels like something you want to engage in…
I HATE it when: You have absolutely NO technology etiquette.
Just because nobody has ever come right out and told you what’s what is
not an excuse to pretend like you have no manners about when/where it’s
appropriate to use your Smart Phone.
1.
DO NOT use your Smart Phone and talk to your
best friend about your cheating boyfriend when you are trying to check out in a
grocery line, or any line for that matter. That’s rude to the
cashier who is focused on you and frankly nobody wants to hear about your life
when we are trying to pay for groceries and get back to our own. I would cheat on you too with those
kinds of technology manners.
2.
DO NOT get on your phone in public and for a second think that you can actually have
a private conversation. NO! Everybody thinks that because they’re
on their phone and people around them cannot hear the other voice that they are
suddenly in their bedroom and nobody else knows what’s going on. Just because I cannot hear your
cheating boyfriend defending himself on the other end of the line doesn’t mean
I don’t know what’s happening as you “privately” scream at him two feet away
from me. Seriously, I’m
embarrassed for you.
3.
DO NOT complain about your Smart Phone. We live in America you selfish brat,
don’t you realize that phone is a luxury?? If you lived in Zimbabwe you would be worried about how to
live past age 39 and not die from AIDS.
(I didn’t make that up, that’s the reason for their high mortality rate.) The fact that your Iphone battery never
lasts all night while you’re trying to partay and you have no service in the
back left corner of your basement does not make me feel pity for you. I am judging you.
So yes, technology has done a lot of really great things for our
society. And my Smart Phone has
made me infinitely more accessible in communication so for that I am
thankful. But if people don’t
start paying a little more attention to how heavily and blindly they rely on the
technology around them then what’s going to happen when there is a zombie apocalypse
and our technology bubble we have tried so hard to build up pops? Let’s just hope we’re up against The Walking Dead zombies and not the I Am Legend zombies.
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