The Atlantic recently published a great piece examining technology titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Using a historical perspective, the author critiques how technological inventions have fundamentally shaped our lives, and ponders if their impact transcends mere lifestyle changes to actual biological adaptations in the ways that we think and learn.
Do we shape technology, or does it shape us?
And, are we even aware of the impact as the technology itself becomes embedded into our culture?
For instance, few people critically examine that the minutia of daily life is mapped out by a clock. Before the mathematical concept of time emerged in the 1300’s, people organized their meals and sleep around their own internal schedules. Today it is maddening and almost unthinkable to envision a world without clocks. As we become dependent on new technologies, which other ones have fused with our modern culture?
The mobile device is a modern day invention that, much like invention of the clock, is shaping every facet of our lives.
Our mobile devices are integrating into our lives at an astonishing pace. The future will be shaped by our increasing dependence on mobile. Today’s mobile devices are affordable and highly sophisticated. They are hubs of communication and allow access to the web. Unbeknownst to some, our future lies in mobile – not the PC.
This fact was impressed upon me at CTIA, as I sat through a great presentation by Weather Channel Mobile’s Louis Gump at the Crisp Wireless hosted event. Continue Reading »
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