Tapscott III

This importance of technology today and its uses throughout culture and society were discussed greatly in Tapscott's book. I found it important to keep in mind the healthy and unhealthy effects of technology, a theme I felt come u pin multiple ways throughout our reading and class periods. Technology obviously has benefits - speed, ease, functionality, and communication that has never before been possible. In many ways this technology needs to be 'toned down' like in the cases of children's uses, like parental controls and monitoring. And in other ways the expansion of technology is nothing short of skyrocketing exponentially in the value it gains as time goes on. Nano technology. 3D printed transplants. It seems the theme I see reoccurring in this discussion is the time and place - the occasion for technology, and where it resides. Technology can be utilized almost anywhere - but there are still many places that it is better without - close relationships still require human interaction, void of technology to develop and grow. Of course relationships benefit from technology when this is not possible, like long distance relationships. This illustrates the flexibility that technology carries in respect to the occasion it is applied to. Some elderly people may actually benefit from their reluctance to adopt new technologies - staying in their familiar routine gives them comfort, and many work better with the routine they know well and follow anyways, as opposed to switching systems of technology and creating unfamiliar hardship as a result. I will get a better result empaling my grandmother than I will trying to communicate with her on Facebook - regardless of the efforts I put into educating and willing her to conform. Technology is reliant on occasion.