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RE: Future survival skills: are you techno - literate ?

in #technology7 years ago

I'm 26 years old. I'm part of the last generation who saw the less technical world and remembers it. But I've also grown up with technology. I got my first own computer when I was 14. Probably a year before that I started using computers actively.

Anyway, technology does fill your life, but it's not always bad. I mean, it depends. Some people get sucked into mobile phones and can't help but message people all the time. For me it kind of seems like a burden at times, but that is why I don't try to interact with everyone. I'm slightly introverted, but not completely. I enjoy alone time. And I think it is also possible. I can choose not to interact with people when I don't want to. Technology just makes it very easy when I do.

As for getting bored, yeah, I think I do get bored without technology quite fast, but I also love those things called books. I don't like reading stuff on screen if I have the chance to choose. BUT thanks to technology I can read so many other things that I never had access to before.

Double edged sword. Anyway, initially my point in my first comment was, that the current direction of technology is to make technology less of a burden. We will start having more and more technology which we don't even realize affects our daily life. The idea is often referred to ubiquitous computing. It means that technology will be everywhere, and the objective is to make things invisible to the user. Get away from the desktop, into the real world, active participation will be irrelevant. Well, we will see how this pans out. I think the times ahead are amazing :)

Until skynet. ;)

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Of course after Skynet it's game over... :)