Living in a technical world
Life is already so fast and yet it is still speeding up.
It’s a rush to get to work, it’s a rush to get back home and then it’s a rush getting the daily activities done before you go to bed and repeat the whole process.
Now, with technology being as high-tech as it is, the world is turning into a blur.
The luxuries technology offers are obviously not something to complain about, doing shopping online, not having to stand in a queue for hours at the bank on a Saturday morning and then having the world’s information at your fingertips.
The new generation of children probably don’t even know what a library is, apart from the music library on their iPhone or iPad.
Face-to-face interaction is reducing in the face of online social sites of which there are a surprising number.
Voice messaging and instant texting are overriding all capability of normal conversation.
Have you recently sat in a room full of teenagers?
A teacher probably prays every day for that overpowering silence.
But you hear keypads being assaulted like the apocalypse has dawned and they want to warn all 7 254 568 895 (according to www.worldometer.info) people on this planet in under 30 seconds.
Technology has made us so lazy that most of you reading this did not even bother to read that figure, but just skipped over it!
The number which you most likely skipped is seven-billion, two-hundred-and-fifty-four-million, five-hundred-and-sixty-eight-thousand, eight-hundred-and-ninety-five people.
Some would now have made a little more effort to read that entire figure, others might just have cast it aside again.
Which makes my point that technology is doing everything for us, even thinking.
People don’t even need to be mathematically intelligent any more, as we have little electronic devices that can work out a difficult solution even before you hit the ‘equals’ button.
People are relying more and more on these devices to help them out of a sticky mathematical situation.
Being one of these people as I am mathematically crippled, without my trusty phone and its programmed-in calculator I would be stranded.
In 50 year’s time, writing will be an art-form.
A delicately hand-written page will be worth thousands, just because everything is now converted to technology.
Books will be the rarest and strangest phenomenon to children in 100 years.
Already the process has begun of tech-devices being implemented in schools instead of them having to bring books.
Just buy a tablet.
Simple.
Most of the population will probably be wearing glasses by the time they hit the age of 21.
TVs are getting smarter and more complicated, drawing in an already TV-orientated society to spend even more time watching the rectangular shaped object.
Again, I am one of these TV-driven members of society.
I need to see all my favourite TV series or there will be war.
Technology is also having a major effect on the journalism industry.
Working at a newspaper publication, the realisation of the future of print media in 50 odd year’s time, is scary.
Journalism is changing from newspapers to websites, the reason for this is because the internet is dominating.
If it does not have a website on the internet, it doesn’t exist according to the ‘logic’ of technology.
The general view most people have of a journalist is someone with a notepad and pen in hand.
This will also be changing.
As a matter of fact, this is changing in the next couple of weeks.
Caxton journalists will now be walking around with a tablet in hand instead of the stereotyped notepad.
Everything is turning digital and that, in effect, changes how things have been done for centuries.
Even tabooed sites not meant for children’s eyes, are accessible with a few clicks of a button.
The internet is littered with all sorts of irrelevant things that have no use and would do absolutely nothing for society.
This is also due to the digital era where technology makes anything easier and connecting and putting things on the web becomes a breeze.
Although none of us want technology to be removed and to go back to the ‘dark ages’, very few people realise the impact technology has on everyday life.
