Response Post- Week 5

Where we are headed in the next 10, 20, 30 years?
The only thing I can guess with this is that technology will be drastically different within the next ten years, the next five even. We have been on such an exponential spike of progress with technology! And I don’t see it slowing down any. I can only imagine that one day we will be able to use virtual reality in every aspect of our life. Maybe we will be able to imagine we are eating a cheeseburger, and one will virtually appear. We will be able to taste it, smell it, and think it’s there, but it won’t be. We won’t gain any calories from it at all, because it is only virtual! I can definitely see some problems with this. But, what technology advancement doesn’t bring on some negative consequences along with its benefits? Who knows? Maybe in the next thirty years, we will even have more advanced robotic, to the point that they are more common to see in public than humans.

How will copyright issues affect future and current musicians in the next ten years?

I feel like it probably will play a huge role and already is. MP3 files have taken over CDs that can be bought in the stores. Anyone can download practically any song for free. Who doesn’t want free music? Then from that point, people are burning, mixing, creating different song selections. Some sell these products, some just give away. Either way, is that taking away from the real artist of the songs? I think so. I won’t say that I’ve never downloaded a free song, or two, or ten. But, I’ve never sold someone else’s songs. But it does happen! How can you possibly police this?

In response to the questions from Nicole’s post:

I have to agree with you! Why should we consider ourselves computers? I think he’s trying to point out our addiction to it. “You are what you eat.” so “You are what you’re addicted to.” I guess that’s what he’s trying to get at. But I disagree. And I feel that goes against the title of the book. If we aren’t gadgets, and thats his point, then he shouldnt later call us computers. Maybe what he’s trying to say is that we aren’t gadgets, so we shouldnt become them by being so obsessed with computer technology. I feel like the biggest addiction for most people, is their cell phone. Today, though, our cell phones are just as versatile as a laptop. They are portable little portals to anything on the world wide web. Facebook is on our phones. We can email from our phones. Camera capabilities as well as uploading and sending capabilities are also on any standard phone.

It is pretty scary to think how far we’ve come in such a short amount of time, and what that says about how far we’ll go in the coming years. Scary, but exciting. What does the future hold for us? Only time will tell.

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