Journal #6

One of the great myths of modern times is the idea that new technologies improve a person’s quality of life. No one has ever demonstrated that access to computers increase a person’s literary or numeracy skills. Likewise futurists in the 50’s predicted we would be enjoying a 3 day work week by now since machines would be doing all manual labor. What do you think? Is your life better now that it would have been 100 years ago because of technology.

I can understand when people think technology is doing more damage then benefitting our society. Although, personally I think its great and it has made my life a lot easier. A lot of technology is can be used for school and work, but a majority of it is for personal entertainment as well. When it comes to schooling I think technology has helped me out in many different ways. Information is easier accessible on the internet, and when it comes to projects you can make them look a lot nicer with a variety of editing programs. I now bring a laptop everyday to school and I find it much easier to type out notes then hand writing them. I can then keep track of them easier then having separate papers everywhere in my binder. Then there are things like ipods and DVD players. Any technology that is more for personal entertain I think I could live without. Although they are nice toys to have.