Today, we still study off a chalkboard, the chalkboard was invented in the mid-1800's. But the revolution has begun, computers were invented in the 1960's and used a stack of cards and some hole punchers. They took up entire rooms. In the 1970's Windows DOS was NEW. In 1989, it was outdated. Today, we have cell phones that are a less than a fraction of their original sizes and weight, computers that once took a room, can now sit on one's lap. This happened in under 40 years, but what about 40 years from now? Computers already have a processing power in the billions of bytes, what next? Predictions of super-computers that could compete with a human brain are set on 2013. That is only 3 years away. Kids, and probably everybody else, within the next 40 years, will no longer be reading out of books, but computers. New jobs that we never even thought would be important, suddenly become top-priority. Kids in the future will do everything electronically. To us, the future will be much like Star Trek.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Key Concept #6 Media Have Social and Political Implications
Today, we still study off a chalkboard, the chalkboard was invented in the mid-1800's. But the revolution has begun, computers were invented in the 1960's and used a stack of cards and some hole punchers. They took up entire rooms. In the 1970's Windows DOS was NEW. In 1989, it was outdated. Today, we have cell phones that are a less than a fraction of their original sizes and weight, computers that once took a room, can now sit on one's lap. This happened in under 40 years, but what about 40 years from now? Computers already have a processing power in the billions of bytes, what next? Predictions of super-computers that could compete with a human brain are set on 2013. That is only 3 years away. Kids, and probably everybody else, within the next 40 years, will no longer be reading out of books, but computers. New jobs that we never even thought would be important, suddenly become top-priority. Kids in the future will do everything electronically. To us, the future will be much like Star Trek.
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I agree. I'm honestly ashamed at what our generation has became, I don't even want to know what it will become. Nobody appriciates good literature anymore, nobody is willing to learn because it takes too much effort. I say in the next few decades... schools will begin to decrease, simply because we will have the technology to do the thinking for us, as well as do the work, that jobs that were once important, wouldn't matter anymore.
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