We were presented with five
questions, one per group, that allowed us to have interesting discussions. The
first group talked how some devices have evolved, giving an example of the
phone. It was interesting to think that before the importance of a phone was so
much insignificant, because it didn’t allow us to do as much things as we do
now. Now a day we don’t think about a phone as a phone, but as a computer that
allows us to not only connect with people, but also with stores, libraries and
everything else we can imagine. As a class we also talked about fridges,
because there are some that have way more functions than a normal fridge should
need/have.
The second group talked about many
topics but the most interesting was the fact that we use technology to “talk
things” and sometimes it allows us to talk about “taboo” topics, because they
would not be socially acceptable otherwise.
The most interesting “presentation”
was the fourth group that discussed the topic: “Technologies will remake us as
we make and remake technologies, but we, by virtue of consciousness and self-consciousness,
have the edge in those processes, and with that advantage comes great responsibility.”
Before their discussion, what it came to my mind was the fact that humans are
creating technology and we are changing it in an amazing level, but at the end
of the day, humans are the ones that are changed because we became dependent on
what we created. The fact that each device gets updates, our “dependency”
changes too, because we start needing the new applications, or new functions of
each invention.
My group, the fifth one, has a very interesting question to
discuss. Actually it had two questions. The first one was: “Utopia or Dystopia?”
I looked what those words meant, because I was not very sure, and Utopia
“has come to mean a place that
we can only dream about, a true paradise. Dystopia, which is the
direct opposite of utopia, is a term used to describe a utopian society in
which things have gone wrong.” Both of these realities are related to a future
where technology has been used to create a perfect life. I personally don’t believe
that technology, by it self, can create perfect living conditions, and the only
way is if humans loose the natural necessities and becoming more technology
like.
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