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Have you watched ‘The Jetsons,’ a cartoon made in 1962, about a family living in 2062, where normal cars have turned into space cars, robots are maids and escalators are used instead of walking. Will this be our life one day? Honestly at the rate at which technology is evolving I don’t see why not.
You might say to me, but we don’t have any of those things,
what are you talking about? Well we now have cars that can park and drive
themselves, I don’t know about you but to me that seems alien like. How can a
car know where it’s going and get the passengers somewhere safely? How can our
technology be so advanced?
It’s only 2017 and we are already on the path of living a
life where technology is forever growing.
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- Technology itself has only started to fully emerge about 30 years ago, but in such a short time we have achieved so much. Think about it.
- The first generation iPhone created in 2007 to the iPhone 8 rumoured to be released this coming autumn.
- From the Donkey Kong DS created in the 1980s to the more complex consoles created in today’s society.
- From the walk man created the 1980s to mp3 players, to streaming music from your smartphone.
- What about printers, we once could only print 2D objects on pieces of paper, but now we are able to print 3D objects.
I am personally scared of what the future holds. It has been
rumoured that by 2024 robots will start to rule over us, taking over 28% of our
jobs. By 2030 more jobs will be lost. This may seem like a conspiracy theory,
as robots aren’t living things, this can’t possibly happen right? They can’t
possibly take over the world.
Technically no, robots aren’t going to come to life and kill
all of humanity like in the film transformers or like the apes wanted to do in
the film planet of the apes, but rather will advance in such a way that all of
humanities jobs will become automated. Maybe this is to extreme, but the idea
behind it still stands.
Robots have already started to take over jobs. For example,
self-serve registers are used in most large chain stores, where customers are
able to skip long queues and pay for their products themselves. Consequently
with the implementation of this technology people have been fired, as the
company has no use for them anymore. Even though in some cases the self-serve
checkout is more full than the normal queues, which makes you think, what has
this new technology achieved? Yes, the machines are cheaper in the long run for
the business than people and are more efficient and get more done in a quicker
time, but giving people a better chance at stealing, makes you wonder is this
technology worth it?
So what’s your opinion on the rapid production of different
technology now?
After watching that video, what do you think about it? Do
you think this is a bad thing or a good thing?
It is thought to be a good idea by hospitals to have small
microchips implanted into humans which hold important personal data, such as
their name, age, home address, phone number, medical history etc. This idea was
around the fact that people with amnesia and dementia will always be able to
get help. The problems involving this are that people knowing that you have a
chip can obtain it with force and therefore have all your important details. Giving
people a potentially easier way of stealing your identity, as they can implant
the chip into themselves.
I do believe that technology is evolving to quickly to
what the human race can grasp, and therefore their needs to be ways in which to
manage the growth. There are just too many risks involved in creating different
technology at such a speed.
- Isabella G.
- Isabella G.
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