In my opinion, it means we, as the human race, are becoming way too technologically advanced than we should be. I do believe that in our modern world, technology is necessary, but we are beginning to go too far and we need to slow down. It is very scary to think of what we are capable of, and what we could accidentally create. According to the New York Times, scientists’ concern is that “further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences”. For example, there are machines developed that try to diagnose and sympathize with sick patients! How can we allow technology to take care of us? If we become too dependent on technology, we will forget how to live without it! One in eight couples married last year met online! There are 31 billion searches on Google every month! What happens when we forget how to be resourceful and only depend on technology to find the answers? What if instead of technology depending on us to develop it, we depend on it to develop us? In the video, it said that because of the pace that we are acquiring new technology information, half of the information a student learns in their first year of a four year program is already outdated by the third year. If we keep moving at such an increasing pace, eventually no one will be able to keep up. This will cause even more issues because people will not be able to afford the necessary education and there will not be as many job opportunities because where humans were once needed, technology has taken their place. As I do think it is amazing what we have proven ourselves capable of creating with technology and love my internet and cell phone just as much as anyone else, I think we all need to realize that there needs to be some point where we draw the line.
My thought is, have we already reached that line? The idea that humans should be micro-chipped is coming out. Although no one has to adhere to this now, what if that changes in the future? According to Associated Content: “Realistically, we do need an organizational infra-structure in order to keep things....well...organized. Tagging store items is acceptable. Tagging people, however, is another issue altogether different.” I could not agree more with that statement, and although my point here is about technology as a whole, micro-chipping humans wraps together my point. My point is that we may have gone too far in our ideas and inventions for technology and if we do not slow it down, we are going to cause ourselves an even bigger problem, the problem being that we will depend on technology for our own survival. Some dependence on technology is inevitable, but it needs to be an amount that if technology failed we would still remember how to take care of ourselves without it. With that being said my thought comes back up again: have we already gone too far with our technology?
"Digital Angel - Is Technology Going Too Far? -." Associated Content - associatedcontent.com. Web. 10 Oct. 2009. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/184426/digital_angel_is_technology_going_too.html?cat=9.
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