It is typical for a new technology to be adapted within a culture and used to support existing patterns of behaviour.With your own relevant examples, answer these questions.
Critical Reflection : Culture Influences through Technology
First question:What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today's world?
1. To me, technology nowadays has thoroughly brought a big impact to the current world. Along with the development, some devices of technology are getting more and more demanded by the mankind, for instance, the utilization of a personal computer. People are so into this useful gadget that almost every family owns more than one PC in home. With PC, people can easily get to know almost all the knowledge that ever existed in this world, and it even allows people to contact each other no matter how fat they are apart. Therefore, utilizing PC everyday has been a common practice for the current mankind, and at the same time, its existence has caused replacement for some other media forms in this world that presented ever since the earlier century.
2. Some other influences through technology I can observe from the world is that, technology will always keep on developing and it will always replace the outdated ones as well. To make the human being's life easier, technology has been developing non-stop since forever. However, when there is any new product manufactured, it will normally replace the older ones, which is not that advanced after comparing. This act seems kind of cruel and mean, but it is happening like almost everyday as people are commonly selfish in this aspect in order to bring themselves the easiest lifestyle, just like how a personal computer replaces the newspaper. Why is it so? Just like my brother says all the time:"who wants to waste money to get their hands dirty when we can read the same news with computer?"
Second Question: Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology? How ?
1. Of course this probability is making sense, in fact, it is happening now. The will of humankind to make ourselves an easier lifestyle will normally drive us to creating new technology in order to fulfill this demand which is thought to be impossible at first. Unknowingly,this kind of development of technology is actually reshaping the culture today, and spontaneously, people will start to change to sort of following the flow of technology.
2. In fact, the reshaping of new culture happens under competition. Normally, improvement happens when there is challenge within oneself or among one another. When mankinds are exposed to different kind of challenges, most of them, especially scientists, will try to invent something out to overcome the adversity. And under the competition among each other, better invention will be created. Of course, when there is a better invention, people rely on it even more and start alienating those old inventions. From that, a new culture will be born. Therefore, I always believe in reshaping the culture is possible as competition never stops, and as it is still happening, new culture will be born unstoppably.
Personal Reflection on the Class.
In fact, I had a quite boring class for this week. it is not about the lecturers or the class, it is just that I never liked reading stuff, so that is why I somehow got bored. Anyway, just when I started to feel sleepy, our lecturer played us a video clip about the iPhone, a mobile phone which has been everyone's dream, and it successfully attract my attention. And from that clip, I learned even more about the iPhone and how convenient our lives can be with its existence. What I can say is that, I was totally amazed. So yea, a good day it was.
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