I can’t say it is a positive or a negative thing. Most likely both. I say that because, one I think it is developing faster than we can morally and ethically understand the use of technology. Outside of the moral and ethically realm there is an interpersonal realm to this question that I’ve come across in a lot of my English classes as well as in casual conversations and I’ve heard it preached a hand full of times where people think that technology is removing the human element to day to day life.
You go to a restaurant and have your order taken by a machine. You go to the grocery store and a machine rings your groceries up. You call a telephone number and a machine answers and helps you. We call people on the telephone instead of seeing them, we text them instead of calling them. We email them instead of going into the next cubicle or in the same room. And Facebook and Twitter add to this issue, and people think it is worse than it was before. It’s impersonal and bad communication. I disagree. I think it is a different form of communication. It has its pros and cons. The conversations that go on concerning this interpersonal communication surrounding this technology reminisces the conversations concerning the spoken word verses the written word. Conversations that still take place today in a certain form, and have taken place for thousands of years with Aristotle, Plato, and pre-Socratic philosophers. It’s been going on for millennia. I only give that allusion to highlight how there are pros and cons about both sides. And different doesn’t necessarily mean worse. It’s nice to have all these various forms to connect with various people.
For the second part of the question, well, I mean my life wouldn’t have technology in it. I would have more candles lit in my room at the moment. I wouldn’t be listening to music. I mean if you are talking about all technology, and my life had no technology in it, than I would be a primitive ape. I mean, even more primitive. I would be in a different place in the evolutionary chain. Even apes use technology and tools. I think of the 2001: A Space Odyssey before the monolith. (Here Trevar makes the famous music). Boom boom boom.
I mean if you are talking about more recent technologies, I guess the catchy answer, I wouldn’t be alive today, regardless of my parents being alive. I had a possible fatal disease when I was a teenager and if I hadn’t been taken to the hospital one day, I think that I would have died that day. Maybe they could have saved me with “modern technology” but I don’t know.
Do you think media is biased? How so?
Media, not being a person, has the inability to be biased. Do I think that the people in media are biased? Yes, of course. I think everyone is biased. I don’t think that it is always a bad thing. Sometimes, it’s an unfortunate thing. Sometimes it is an enriching thing. It’s a fact of life. I guess the part I don’t like is when the people in media claim to be without bias, because I think they are wrong. They could be right but I doubt it.
Favorite book: I don’t have a favorite
Favorite author: I adore Mary Shelly’s "Frankenstein". I really like Joan Didion’s "The White Album", specifically the title essay. And I do like Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Favorite candy: Currently, M&Ms—plain, peanut, peanut butter, mint, dark chocolate, dark chocolate peanut, crispy.
Favorite color: I like drab colors.
Favorite movie: I <3 Hucklebees, Planet of the Apes (all of them)
Favorite food: pizza
Favorite Bible verse: I don’t know if I would call it my favorite, but my theme verse is either: Hebrews 10:19-25 or 1 John 4:8
I have to pee.
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