Over the past few months, we have followed a learning path on how to promptly associate information from multiple sources and blend them into a story of our own. By picking and choosing what type of information we want to associate with allows us to be precise in the topics and motives that guide us in creative writing. Each creator has a unique perspective and design to the way they write and over the length of the course, we have grown individually as creators and designers utilizing the tool known as a summary. By drawing on ideas from other authors, it opens the realm of brand-new perspectives and viewpoints. Of course, making sure to give the appropriate credit to the original creator, their products open the world to limitless opportunities. In the education setting, students like us reflect on the work of others in many situations. Anything from a research proposal to computer science analytics, the use of previously created information to further better our knowledge of an individual topic is at an all-time high. From our time in class, we have moved into the world of summarizing the ideas on how technology has changed our society, both as a whole and the different impacts it has had on us individually. We as humans are in a constant cycle of evolution and growth. We constantly explore for improvement and satisfaction when it comes to the needs and wants that we have in our tangible world. Part of it comes from the drive to become a better version of oneself, maybe it comes from a mindset of proving someone wrong through success. Whatever our ambition comes from, we all have come to a place where the student partakes in repetitive activities that drill the cadence into their minds, so that it can be repeated in a similar way in the future.

The degradation of society and interactions we have with each other cannot be pinpointed to just one thing like technology. It is almost an impossible statement to make that just because we have nearly limitless access to online databanks with billions of sites and links, that this is the downfall of human intellect as a whole. Just the idea that one thing could be that destructive, something that we created to aid us, not tear us down, challenges the concepts of what humanity truly sees in itself when it comes to wanting a new solution to existing circumstances. These devices that we have in our pockets and that we carry around in backpacks give us so much opportunity to learn and grow and expand our roots of what we could know. These devices that are so powerful, they have more computing power than the Lego sets that sent the first men to the moon. These devices that can connect families together halfway across the globe from each other without any delay. These devices that give us access to the new information to better ourselves, but also have the ability to distract and block out the reality around us. The reality in which we are most certainly losing a grip on. Something so delicate and vulnerable, being cast aside for virtual information, invalid ideas, and dystopian-like futures promised to those who stay connected to their devices and disconnect from the real. Maybe the authors of the articles we have read are right in their ideas that technology is rusting away our infrastructure of knowledge. We used to say that it would be impossible for technology to become a dominating factor in how life can change. Just a short twenty years ago we were still trying to figure out how email worked. The first phones never had a screen that you could interact with, in most cases the whole phone weighed about three pounds. There was just a number pad and pick-up and end button. The only distraction came from the person on the other end never wanting to hang up. Yes, life may have seemed different then, maybe simpler. But credit is due to those who had the drive to advance the technology to make it better and stronger in so many ways.

Today, however, you can’t go more than ten minutes without thinking about any kind of technology. It is around every corner of life, from the ones we have on us to the even trying to complete an assignment on how technology distracts us. It is everywhere. And quite honestly, the future of tech use will only change from here on out. In a few short years, people think that schools will have AI robotics as teachers, giving full lessons to students. Personally, I think this is a horrible idea. There should be no place on Earth where a fully sentient AI robot should be fulfilling the role of a teacher and giving out a mass amount of information. This situation would most certainly end in the complete destruction of all creative work and ideas for advancing human culture. We are already seeing the death of speech from the lack of communication between people. But if we begin to learn from robots, then the humanities will never be able to be reclaimed.

Kevin Kelly, the author of “Technophilia”, an article of his own creation describing how that embraces technology through optimistic accounts and a want for progression of societies using new technologies. His overall arguments indicate his belief that technology has gotten to a point where it interacts with us and grows. Unlike what we believe the original plans for technologies were us to interact with it and for us to able to prosper and Kelly is in belief that now our creation has become biological, slowly evolving overtime through self-testing and improvement.