Technology eased our lives by streamlining the communication process. I'm able to receive instant feedback from professors and colleagues through email, IMs, or texting. I'm able to chat with anyone with a connection. I'm able to amend my daily plans by sending a quick text to mom saying I need to stay late after school. I'm able to look up and read the details of any product I want before I purchase it. I'm able to investigate or challenge any 'fact' someone claims because a lot of information is right at my finger tips. I'm able to express myself through different mediums, as well as simply watching new YouTube videos or finding new songs. In essence, technology, especially the internet, has provided us with ample innovation, collaboration, freedom, scrutiny, and entertainment.
Therefore, I find it fitting that my generation (born 1977-97) is called the Always On generation. We spend many hours a day staring at screens-TVs, computers, cell phones-and communicating online. What luck, I was born and raised around booming technology. Companies and businesses have caught on, surely. I cannot imagine doing budgets and financial statements the old school way, hah.
However, the very act of using technologies such as email and texting has impaired, at least my, social skills. While convenient, online communication is just not as rich as face-to-face communication. To gain from using technology's benefits and develop good communication skills, one must simply balance the two. I find it very difficult to do, being born in a generation where a majority of us sleep with our cell phones next to our bed. I'm not totally lazy, yet. I still yell across the room and pick up food by car or by phone.
What I'd like technology to do new for me is... (gosh, what more can TVs/PCs/phones do since they all have apps now anddd we have a car that drives itself!). Oh, I would this to see some decent learning/teaching software! How many dollars do I have to waste paying for CDs/codes only to struggle more with getting the programs to function seamlessly rather than getting to the studying part? I really do like the idea for e-books too. Do you know how expensive college textbooks are? What's the purpose of technology? To make something more time effective and/or more cost effective, I would hope. So, let tablets pick up some momentum, yeah. I'd like a tablet. Man.