“Teenagers today barely understand the idea of watching TV on someone else’s schedule. When you tell them we didn’t leave home because our show was coming on at 9 P.M., to them it sounds like our great-grandparents talking to us about horses and buggies.” [Jeffrey Cole, Director, Center for the Digital Future, 2009, Media & Culture 8th Edition] Technology has already changed drastically in my lifetime and it will continue to do so into the future. Jeffrey Cole’s quote I saw in our textbook could not be more accurate. I do not even remember the last time I watched a show when it actually aired on television. Now that does not mean I do not watch shows, because I watch numerous. However, I never end up actually watching my shows on the television. I watch it on my computer or on my cell phone, none of which was possible less than 10 years ago.
When I was little and my family would go on long road trips my parents would take a small television with VCR built in and strap it with bungee cords to the back of one of the bucket seats in our minivan. My sister and I would sit in the very back row seats of the car and watch our favorite movies on tape. Today if someone did this it would be absolutely ridiculous. Now most minivans have screens for watching movies, television or even video games built into them. Today people under the age of twelve probably do not even know what a VCR player is.
When my mom was growing up she did not have a cell phone, they barely even existed yet. The cell phones they had then were not even worth having. You had to strap them around your waist and carry the huge parts involved with it. Now cell phones fit in our pockets and in the palm of our hands. Even my first cell phone was nothing like the ones people have today. If I carried around the cell phone I had in the sixth grade people would think I have been living under a rock for the past seven years.
Based on how fast technology is changing just in the eighteen years I have been alive I cannot even imagine what technology will be like in the future. According to NBC News just in the upcoming year of 2020 we will need to, “Get ready for the first complete synthetic human brain, moon mining, and much more. Maybe robotic moon bases, chips implanted in our brains, self-driving cars and high-speed rail linking London to Beijing.” This sounds crazy to me that in just five years all this technology will be in place. If this is what is happening in five years I cannot even fathom what will be around in ten years or even fifty.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43015182/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/reasons-will-be-awesome-year/#.VNPbouk3Pug
When I was little and my family would go on long road trips my parents would take a small television with VCR built in and strap it with bungee cords to the back of one of the bucket seats in our minivan. My sister and I would sit in the very back row seats of the car and watch our favorite movies on tape. Today if someone did this it would be absolutely ridiculous. Now most minivans have screens for watching movies, television or even video games built into them. Today people under the age of twelve probably do not even know what a VCR player is.
When my mom was growing up she did not have a cell phone, they barely even existed yet. The cell phones they had then were not even worth having. You had to strap them around your waist and carry the huge parts involved with it. Now cell phones fit in our pockets and in the palm of our hands. Even my first cell phone was nothing like the ones people have today. If I carried around the cell phone I had in the sixth grade people would think I have been living under a rock for the past seven years.
Based on how fast technology is changing just in the eighteen years I have been alive I cannot even imagine what technology will be like in the future. According to NBC News just in the upcoming year of 2020 we will need to, “Get ready for the first complete synthetic human brain, moon mining, and much more. Maybe robotic moon bases, chips implanted in our brains, self-driving cars and high-speed rail linking London to Beijing.” This sounds crazy to me that in just five years all this technology will be in place. If this is what is happening in five years I cannot even fathom what will be around in ten years or even fifty.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43015182/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/reasons-will-be-awesome-year/#.VNPbouk3Pug