Remember the time we wrote our numbers down on a piece of paper if someone would ask for it ? Or what about the time it took us 35min just for our desktop to start ? To be quiet honest those times seem like ancient history. Cell phones without cameras and web browsers feel awkward and “old school”. In today’s society, technology has taken over and has really become a man’s best friend.It really doesn’t hit you until you realize your 6 year old nephew knows more about the iPhone then you do.
In the book Here Comes Everybody by Shirky, the author talks about how technology is vastly changing day by day and how we as people have become media outlets. Media technologies have created a new era in which we live in. It has impacted our lives far greater then anything else. We all know that feeling when we leave our cellphone at home and have to spent the entire day without it. Shirky talked about how change in technology has changed the way we do things. For instance, having an high resolution camera on my phone allows me to be ok if I leave my camera home while going on a trip.
Another thing Shirky talked about is how we are becoming outlets for information to be passed around. Shirky talked about groups and organizing people and how the internet and technology make that easier for us. For instance, lets look at ratemyprofessors.com. Including myself, we all are guilty of using that website to look for classes and professors we want. Somebody makes a post regarding that class and the professor they had and there opinions about him/her. When it comes to picking our classes we go on that website and read what others wrote before we make our decision on to pick that professor or not. Whether we notie it or not it plays a big impact on the class we pick. Ratemyprofessor can be classified as a group/organized website where numerous amount of people share there ideas and thoughts. Other examples of how we have become outlets is eBay and Facebook. We use these websites to interact with other people and share our ideas or in the case of eBay our stuff. The hours spent on Facebook in one day is mind boggling and really shows how technology has taken over our friends as well.
After doing my own research and reading “Here Comes Everybody”, I can say with confidence that a man’s best friend is the technological device in his pocket.
