This blog post comes from a cross of sheer randomness and boredom. Basically, this blog post is going to talk about technology and how, despite it being brilliant, wonderful and almost necessary in the world today is in-fact full of many things that make it worse... At the same time though you have to remember that despite this I don't hate technology, I love it, its just certain aspects annoy me.
The life of Technology
There are many forms of technology in the world, some for practical uses and some for entertainment purposes - phones, iPods, computers, games consoles, TVs, etc - all of them have been developed over the course of recent history and have their specific roles in our lives. Its hard to imagine in a lot of cases just how humanity survived without the technology... I know that they did but I couldn't imagine living without it... Despite this however, for me personally and I'm sure for almost everyone else, technology has been the cause of so many problems in my life... And it is these problems that make technology a burden to us as well as a blessing, and whats worse some of these problems are trivial things but they annoy us anyway - and without the technology a lot of these problems couldn't even arise in the first place.
The ever dwindling battery
Battery life is a common problem brought about by technology and one which causes the most problems and most annoyance. Any form of device that is portable requires batteries to work and it is inevitable that the power of these batteries will eventually run out... and yet when it happens it normally seems to be at the worst time... like just when we find we are going on a long journey, for example. As well as this, batteries provide annoyance through forced spending for more of these portable sources of power... This annoyance has since been removed with rechargeable batteries or in-built rechargeable batteries but portable technology causes this problem in the first place.
From this though we are led onto the problem that is simply... batteries can't cope with technology. Batteries powering older devices from the early 1990s for example seem to last forever however, as you get to batteries in modern cameras of Nintendo 3DSes they have a battery life of just a few hours... and this again leads to the aforementioned battery dying problem, only now it happens more regularly... and you get angry thinking 'Why is this happening? Surely they could get more powerful batteries!?' and this is true... With the increase in power of technology it is obvious that the drain on battery life will be greater so why don't they include more powerful batteries?
Why won't you work!?
Yet another common problem with technology is the fact that... it simply cannot work at times. Your TV could lose signal, same with your phone, your game could crash or a program on a laptop decides not to work as planned. Technology isn't perfect it will have flaws, yet we get so angry if we miss something or lose something because technology decides to fail on us... Think about it if something non-digital doesn't go right, you get annoyed but carry on because you made a mistake, but if technology goes wrong we have a tantrum and rant and rave at anyone and anything about it. I mean, if your phone doesn't have signal so you can't send a text or ring someone for whatever purpose, even if its really important... its annoying but inevitable due to the way the technology works but we still hate it. And yet, only a couple of decades ago we didn't have this technology so we couldn't even text someone anyways...Technology is brilliant, up until the moment it fails us...
The flow of information
Due to the internet and TV we can find almost any piece of information we wish and can do it at almost any time... this is a wondrous thing and is great benefit to us all. At the same time the cost of being able to access this information has a price, many prices in fact. Due the abundance of information we believe almost anything we see or hear about online and because anyone can see this information it spreads... everywhere... It is generally the case that you hear something bad on the news and the information that we get influences us greatly... and ultimately nothing comes of it. One example of this is the spread of knowledge regarding illnesses... we are told all of this information about some form of deadly virus or whatever which is helpful but because we become overloaded with this information and believe anything about it no matter how distorted we panic too much... And then ultiamtey, not much happens and it suddenly dies away leading us all panicing over nothing.
At the other end of the spectrum, the rise of technology allowing us to get information leads to people getting their hopes up and then ultimately have them shattered or not live up to their over-hyped expectations. Games and films are one example of this, in the past I wouldn't know about a new game or film coming out until i read it in a magazine or glanced upon it in a shop and this led to no pre-expectations, I would just go and get a game or see a film because it looked good. Nowadays though, I hear about any and all games and film YEARS before they come out and see endless trailers showing me promises of pure epicness... and then the game or film is realsed and more than half the time I am left disappointed - I may still love the game or film to bits but due to the over-hype it never lives up to what I expected ending in disappointment.
The end result
So there we have it a few of the downsides to the benefits of technology... Technology is brilliant and most of the time it helps us - end of - and without it life would be harder. But it has inevitably caused more problems to arise that wouldn't otherwise exist... and because technology is a core part of our lives these problems occur all too often.
This is my final word on my blog, for a while... the blog assessment itself is due in this Friday and inbetween then and now I have other deadlines that I have to work on... So, for the foreseeable future, 'til next time - that's all folks!
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