2011年3月18日 星期五

Who is controlling? Human or technology?

  In the beginning of the lesson, Rodney raised an interesting question, whether we are controlling the technology, or the technology is controlling us. In my opinion, there's no doubt that we are still the controller. The reason for that is we still keep inventing technology today, not the vice versa. Technology is the tool for making our life easier and better. It's true that everything around us are about technology, but if we are controlled by them because of this, then we should be controlled by oxygen for a long long time.Someone may think that the world may be dominated by robot in future, but I think that only happen in movie as machine won't have their mindset in reality.

  Another reason for proving we are controlling the technology is that we can make change to the technology, which is call hacking. We can develop technology to hack into another one for our convenience, but technology can not do that for their interest. There are a lot of hackers in many kinds of technology, especially in the game industry, like PSP,NDS,Wii, after hacking them we can play most of the game for free. For me, I also hack "Apple" by jail-breaking my iPhone, so that I can get applications for free too.


4 則留言:

  1. Juno, I agree with you that both technology and human are controllers. However, it creates another question which is technology and ethnics. When technology challenges morality, such as cloning, how do we set the boundary?

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  2. yes, I agree with you in the sense that technology is developed by people which helps us to be a better contoller of it.Yet,actually most people like students and other normal citizens don't have much IT knowledge, do you think that it makes us to have less ability to control technology as a passive technology user?

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  3. I think there are passive control and active control. The points you raised are about active control. As human has mindset,we can hack technology or transform technology we created. However, we are actually being passively controlled in every second. For example we can't continue our life if there is no transportion and no illumination. We have to walk miles away to work and by the time we arrive, the sun is already gone. =P

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  4. I think we will never be controlled by technologies, just that we are too reliant on them. But when it is needed, we can still do the stuff on our own, like writing a letter instead of typing it out.

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