Narora

i phone, blackberry, Play station 3, 3d television.....the list goes on. When you first read this list the first thing that comes to mind is all the interesting features that come with it. As society grows older the technology seems to become a lot more advanced, which can be both a good thing and a bad depending on how you look at the situation. In my opinion, people are making themselves a bit too dependent on technology, which will one day come back and haunt them. It seems like people are inventing new gadgets that will basically take over there lives. For instance the i phone can do almost anything you want it to; it can start your car, turn on your television, wake you up in the morning, and also reserve your seats to almost any event. To some people, this maybe a good thing but if you look at the i phone ad campaign, apple is basically trying to tell its consumers that you do not need an alarm clock or a car opener or even a remote control for that matter. Does that seem like a good thing? Is it smart to have one gadget which you must depend on all throughout the day?

The one thing most people fear about with new technology is the loss of knowledge. A great example of this would be the calculator, which many people depend on today to get all there number work done. With the invention of the calculator people do not feel the need to learn how to multiply or divide. What would happen to those people if one day something happened whereby calculators were banned from everyone on earth? I could only assume people would begin to suffer because of there need for technology. University students would begin to fail due to there lack of knowledge for there basic multiplication. This same concept can be said for the i phone. People put there lives on this device but what they do not realize is that if it ever shuts down so will there brain. I am not saying these devices are bad or that they should not be invented for the public, but what I am saying is that we need to stop being so dependent on them. Instead of putting your weekly schedule on your blackberry, write it down on a piece of paper or on a calendar. It may not be convenient but at least you can be sure it will not turn off on you or crash due to a virus.

I fear that if people get too attached to these new devices they will forget the old ones and sooner or later they will not longer exist. It has already happened with music where we use to have cassettes to play our music, but with all this new technology mp3’s are the new devices to play our music. It no longer exist on cassette and what people need to understand is if mp3's begin to fail and crash, the music they once had will no longer be heard. A great example of this would be on January 1st of 2009, New Year’s Day, the Microsoft Zune crashed and all data on the mp3 player was no longer accessible. Microsoft said it had something to do with the timer in the device, which was mis-dated, but how does that help with all the music you lost on your device?