Journal #7

"The Myth of Technology"In the 1950's, futurists predicted that the invention of labour saving machines such as the household dishwasher and robots in factories meant that the common worker would enjoy a 3 day work week. Ironically, improvements in technology have led to the disappearance of better paying, skilled work and people working harder than ever before. What is your opinion? How much does technology improve your life and the lives of people in general?

That is a good question to ask, seriously, I am not too sure on how to answer that question. Our technology today is beginning to go from performance to sheer entertainment, our music systems with additional functions. I have come to ask myself this question a couple times "Is it actually necessary to add the extra functions to our hand-held technology?" It really depends on how you look at it because you are getting your money's worth spent on such a device. If you know me well enough, I tend to break things accidentally pretty often so what I would ask for is something that can resist a drop test or whatever else can go wrong. The rate of these things breaking is pretty high, I mean I heard a lot of stories about ipods and phones breaking so I'm thinking that they can't have that function.

Technology in general, it takes a lot to produce, but is easy to use. If we use it for assembly production line, it's alright because who can keep up with that? Machines are good to an extent, but what we don't realize is that we need to work for money, like making burgers, they each need to be made with love. There are some things that really shouldn't be done by machine: making burgers, cloning and of course, being a critic. Machines are just what we use to make our lives easier, not to replace our way of life in an overall sense that we only talk through texting and silly expressions.