Technology is Great

smkoch

smkoch

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Although a ton of technology has changed over the past decades, I feel that the majority of major changes has taken place within my lifespan, at least as far as computer advancement goes, and I'm still amazed at how things have changed even over the last 5 year's or so in advancements. I'm writing this because although not a new thing by any means, I still am amazed that I'm getting my car fixed and the dealership has a wireless system in place, so I can just sit, wait and carry on with any work that I have to do that involves the net.

Amazing....

With current laptops, access to the net and cellphones, I can sit and edit, work on a treatment or educate myself without losing at least half a day to a full day like I would have in the past. :thumbsup:
 
I also feel like there are plenty of unexpected side effects from the advancements. It's very easy to be distracted by all the technology. Like right now, I should be writing, but I'm reading, responding, thinking about lunch, listening to music, about to throw in a dvd to be background for writing. Sometimes it's easier when all the toys are unplugged.
 
Technology increases exponentially. Better technology makes it easier to produce better technology.

Keep in mind, though, that most of what we have today is simply better versions of things we’ve had for decades, if not longer. The first fax service went into operation in 1864. The magnetic tape recorder was invented in 1899. The first commercial VCRs were sold in 1955. The Internet dates back to the 1960s. PCs were developed for the Apollo program.

It’s snowballed from there, but you’d be amazed at how far back the newest things go.
 
yeah, I didn't really mean that the creation of the computer was a new thing , but having what once would fill a house sitting on my lap, with over 3 hours of battery, + a highspeed connection to the net, from a server in a room who knows where is pretty damn cool....
 
Also, making it cheap and ubiquitous doesn't make it better. It's not that life was better without cell phones and wireless laptops, I just found it easier to filter out all of the crap that distracted me from what I really wanted to be doing.

I have severed the umbilical between me and my wireless devices, if I want to talk to people I call and schedule a meeting or I actually go over and see if their home. I know some people will think this is inefficient, but the time that it gives me to think about what I want to think about is worth it. It seems that most young people today would have no concept of life without a cell phone. The battery in my neighbors key died and she couldn't figure out how to get into her car, I went over and stuck the key in the door and unlocked it. She was so accustomed to keyless ignition she didn't even think of that.

Technology is a lot of noise that you have to learn how to filter it.
 
The battery in my neighbors key died and she couldn't figure out how to get into her car, I went over and stuck the key in the door and unlocked it. She was so accustomed to keyless ignition she didn't even think of that.
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ChuckS said:
It seems that most young people today would have no concept of life without a cell phone. The battery in my neighbors key died and she couldn't figure out how to get into her car, I went over and stuck the key in the door and unlocked it. She was so accustomed to keyless ignition she didn't even think of that.
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just amazing how that works.
 
Technology is great - it allows us to do things today we could not have even imagined doing 10 years ago. But how "real" is it? Like a hand-written letter versus an e-mail, does digital media lack a soul, a personality? By becoming more dependent on the binary world, are we losing touch with the physical one?
 
Yeah, I agree that technology has made it easy for people to become helpless with out it, I see it as a tool, I've had a cellphone all threw film school as my only phone because I was never at home, after 3 year's with one I gave up on having one for almost 2 years because it wasn't practicle, but now being in business it's required. It's good to have the things' there when there needed, and I'd honestly call anyone a hipocrite if they said otherwise, especialyl since your sitting there reading this on a computer. If I was a fisherman and didn't need any of this than it wouldn't matter if a new camera was coming out, but as a filmmaker I know that a strong story will take a more important position over Tech. but I don't write novels, and when the time comes I want to be able to push that screenplay with the best Technology available, whether that means the format I shoot with, or the internet marketing tools I use, whether I build a website or use Photoshop to design a press kit.. as it was stated above I love to talk with people in person about bussiness, but would have a rough time doing alot of what I do living in a major city, where driving one way to someones house is over and hour just to get across 5 minutes of info I could do from an e-mail, or cellphone, or MSN , plus many of film contacts I have don't even live within 1000miles of me, so e-mail is a big bonus in this industry where you need to get a lot of info across and people can't be gotten on the phone..

But I agree it should be used wisely
 
..my entire city has braodband wireless internet (up to 2MB per sec). you can subscribe, and be online anywhere in the city on your laptop or desktop. ..in the car.. at your freinds place... at the park. on a boat.. pretty cool stuff. my issue with technology is that its changing so fast that its useless before its even used sometimes. alot of money, and knowledge goes down the drain in an instant.. and keeping up with it is like the race track dogs chasing the rabbit around the track.. you will never catch it.
 
Certainly great tools are at our disposal and make the impossible a reality. I just think it's interesting to step outside ourselves from time to time and make observations about the bigger picture.
 
what city would that be?

I once read in.. i think it was TECHNOLOGY magazine- that they were working on or planning to work on a computer that learns. So what happens is that it upgrades itself with a dedicated memory core of some kind... i dunno how that works without being tremendously expensive- I dont even want to think about how far away that is even with the acceleration today. That kinda stuff would be great for robots and computers that need to "work" or have to multitask with more than one goal in mind..not for editing though.

maybe 50 more years from now, it will slow down just a bit, allowing for more versatile machines and even home computers that wont need changing for at least several years- maybe replacing parts will be part of the regular routine but it will still be the same ROBOT.

and later on internet should be FREE with some limited access. But i guess books aren't free either.... so that kinda makes sense.
 
ultimatly it hasnt really made anyones life any easier. we simply find more or harder work to do since we have the tools to do more or harder work.
 
iamloser said:
ultimatly it hasnt really made anyones life any easier. we simply find more or harder work to do since we have the tools to do more or harder work.
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*chuckle* Interesting observation, IAL.
 
But fortunately, there are good ones and bad ones and the majority of the world(business) tend to stay with one even way past its due outdated time. like windows 2000 professional. So you have time to live too.
 
I just can't wait until I get the *Microchip in my hand*!! No more fiddling around with Credit, ATM, or Check cards. Just swipe your hand and go. I also want a barcode on the other hand that stores all my personal info.

Doesn't all of that *Mark of the Devil* technology sound nice?

~reservoir~
 
What's really funny is ten years from now we will look back on these top flight systems we all own and say "What were we thinking...how the hell did we survive with those underpowered, virtualy useless systems. I recently came across an old computer magazine from the 80's, I browsed some of the adds and laughed at how I thought I was smokin hot with my very expensive Atari 1040ST. You couldn't edit Video on those things if you ganged a thousand of em together and fed them rocket fuel. At the time though they were the cats ass!
 
I'm sure our kids will someday pick up a copy of *Dad's old March 05' Computing magazine'* and go: WTF? "3.6 Gigahertz with 4 Gigabytes of Ram and 10 thousand RPM hard drives....You've gotta be shitting me" - then Dad slaps the hell out of him for cursing and replies "...Back in my day that was top of line buddy....not like you ungrateful whipper-snappers with your 50Ghz multicore processors and your 100 Gigs of Ram and Solid State Hard Drives!! Back then we had to work for a living. Now you crazy kids can edit fully uncompressed Ultra High Def video on your Mac with iMovie and on your PC's with Windows Movie Maker!! Your generation should appreciate what we did for you!!"

~reservoir~
 
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