This reading made me think about how people’s ideas are formed and turned into a technological reality and how science is envloded in technology. The best example I can use to articlate my thought: A rocket Ship. A human with  the “idea or concept” to fly through the air into outer space to another planet. Throughout time and history they used science to create technology  that will help build a rocket that can go to the moon. Even allow humans to walk on the moon without exploding, to me that’s bring’s their idea too life to life.

 

 

Media and Technology

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I read Essays on Media and Society by James W. Carey.

I actually read majority of the essay because it was interesting.  I wanted to challenge some of the thoughts that were  articulated. “ We have barely seen these advantages as opportunities to expand People’s power to learn and exchange ideas and experience”.  This quote is pertaining to  how printing and technology has become a form of communicating, And what it’s like to communicate as a culture. I think that is interesting Because it’s 2018 we have all these apps that we use on technology to meet up and hang out with people , But when we get together we have the problem of physically communicating because were so wrapped up on our phones ,on our computers in our emails  we tend to forget people are within  our surroundings . We have social media that allows us to keep in contact with people and stay up to date with what they’re doing but in the same breath something James had mentioned was computers have allowed people to see what society is currently doing we all know where and what people are doing and when  they are doing. So the question that I create from this is

The more that technology advances does humanity lose their freedom ?

 

 

Once the world is technologized, there is no effective way to criticize what technology has done without the aid of the highest technology available’’

I feel everything he said, was so true. The fact that this was said years ago and applies to how society functions today. We can’t live without our IPad’s or Computers. We don’t go to books to ask question anymore. We run to Siri and Alexa. Ask them how to spell stuff we can’t spell and math problems he struggle to solve. This also has cons not only negatives though. Blind people are able to read with technology, Deaf people can hear with technology, People can  fall in love based off technology.  Technology such a bittersweet thing .

Referance: Quote: Ong, Walter J. “Orality and Literacy” in The Book History Reader. eds. David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery. Routledge, 2006

 

Jojo, I feel like this is the same article that we read so I just copied and paste Your reference  because I didn’t know the name of the book I thought it was just an article