Thursday, 3 May 2012

The impact of the information age on your life and lifestyle.

The Blog today is about how the information age has or will impact our life and lifestyle.
So the first questions is; Can human bodies and minds adapt to the higher stimulation, faster pace, and constant change of the information age? ... Considering that the information age is growing in a fast pace, with new technologies being produced or introduced almost every month is very overwhelming. Because, some, people try to always be up to date with these new techs. I believe humans can adapt but as soon as they do they have to adapt to the other newer versions. It almost becomes a job for some. So humans can adapt but they'll have to really take the effort to do so.
So this bring us to our next question, Will our information-heavy environment cause us to lose touch with the more fundamental human needs? With this technology, I personally believe that it will make us lose touch with our fundamental human need because we spend too much time on them than we do with our human needs, having us lose the ability to have human interactions even making us lazy to take care of ourselves.
Now for the third question, Will we become so dependent on our "pretty toys" that we can't get by without them? I believe this is true, we get so caught up on our "toys" everyday that we depend on them for everyday. Making us need them for entertainment and communications or interactions with people around the globe. Not having them just isn't complete, especially in a fast growing pace of the information age.
For the forth question, Will we lose our sense of purpose and identity as our machines become more intelligent? Or will we learn to balance the demands of the technology with our biological and spiritual needs? No, personally I believe, even if the machines become more "intelligent" we won't lose our sense of purpose and identity because there is a lot to explore about the human inside and out, and the thing that, hopefully, sets us apart from the machine is will. We all humans have WILL, a choice to do something or not, a choice to believe or not believe. Either physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually we have those choices, and so far, what I know, Computers are given the knowledge (and is stored) of things,programs,etc..and they follow. Yes, of course the machines might be fast, either to calculate or complete tasks. But they are "robots" and we're not, this makes us Intelligent.

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