Research Memo #3

     Technology has become more valuable thorughout the years. Without these technical advancements we could not have made any movies or color television. The included clip from Tron Legacy shows why technology is outstanding. It shows a more futuristic form of technology; you can see the evolution through this movie. What if technology had stopped progressing in the 1970s? Color television would have never been seen, therefore black and white sitcoms would have stayed popular.
  The many advantages technology sets forward are great; we need to understand that we need to become more moderate in our usage. A scene from the movie, "Network" was helpful because a man specifies that technology advancements are making us addicted and we are reading less and on the computer and watching television instead of learning the old fashioned way. The majority of the population lives using electronics; in the future we will not be able to live without them. The "Network" is from 1976, so it must be that in present day we are much worse and so much more addicted.
   Teenagers constantly listen and play with their iPods, chat on Facebook, text, or play video games when they could be enjoying their youth. Technology, in part, can be blamed for obesity because kids are constantly sitting instead of being active. Also whenever people want to know the news they do not have to get the paper they can easily get on the internet and Google the recent events in the comfort of their homes. This is the reason I chose the video "Old v. New". In the video, the computer and the newspaper are fighting on who is better and the computer is obviously winning without even trying.
   A clip from VOA news introduced a negative effect from computers, so I placed it in my blog. The narrator explains and interviews doctors on how our vision can be affected by looking at a screen to intently for a fifteen or so minutes. Doctors say it is called, "Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)." CVS may cause the following: fatigue, headaches, neck ache, backache, double vision, and blurred vision. This condition is becoming more frequent for teens because they are the ones that are constantly looking at their phones and at television or computer screens in their free time or for homework.
  These videos were helpful because they gave me a bright idea on how society is affected. We live and will keep on living on these machines that we have so quickly become addicted to; our lives would be so much different if we lived sixty years ago. The new generation of people could not get by because we have become somewhat incompetent of completing some tasks; we have become lazy. Most cannot solve a simple addition problem without a calculator or correctly spell a word without a spell checker. Technology has, to some extent, made us illiterate.