Over the past few weeks, especially with all of the technology conventions going on, I've been noticing all the different changes going on as a result of technology that we now have. I don't necessarily mean all the big worldly changes that have occurred due to technology, but more basic everyday level changes.
An example of this is mobile phones. My mobile phone at the moment has a battery that isn't holding its charge as much as it's meant to, and due to this is lasting only a few hours a day, or will only let me call or text for a short while before dying.
The conclusion of this new 'dependency' (not sure if that's the best word) on technology hit me yesterday when I needed to quickly call someone whilst at home. Like any other time I went immediately to my mobile only to discovered that it had died again. After this I then went looking for our home phone, to discover this time that it had in fact
been disconnected for a while and put away somewhere because no one ever used it
anymore due to everyone having their mobiles.
As well as basically replacing normal landlines phones for me, my mobile has also become my main method of communicating with people, whether it be texting, instant messaging, emailing, or even on things like facebook chat. By packing so many different features into mobiles, people now don't have to go very far in order to do loads of the daily tasks they'd usually have needed loads of different things in order to do.
Another example of this is my Mum. Her iPhone 4 now contains spreadsheets with weekly spending's, credit card information, exercise information, documents for work, and the list goes on.
The other big change that I've noticed, is how little t.v I watch now a days, and how thats been replaced by watching programmes and web series's on my laptop. Through this whole first year of university I didn't watch t.v once, anything that I did watch was through websites or streaming programmes, movies, etc...
For those that read my blog on Youtube not too long ago, this kind of adds to that. Through Youtube I've discovered several awesome web series, shows that upload new content everyday, and it's now even the place where I get the bulk of my news from. I've also read several new articles lately that have come to this conclusion too, that content uploaded to the internet could slowly be replacing the traditional medium of television programmes.
Having come to these conclusion that people are becoming more dependent on technology and new technology could slowly be replacing the traditional older technology, makes me feel quite divided. I do see now that there is more and more internet content being produced everyday, or higher and higher quality and originality and could be where television is heading. However on the other hand, I to this day insist on having a separate MP3 player rather then just playing music through my phone. Oddly I have been really stubborn on this point, never really caring whether my phone can hold loads of songs, or seeing if the battery could handle it, even if carrying both things around with me takes up more space, I just like having the two things separate.
This is one thing I don't see changing very quickly, I'll spearhead new technological developments any day, but I don't think I'm ready to give over to this dependency just yet.
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