Speed of Change
Our lecture on Marshal McLuhan ( Wikipedia ) brought up many similar points to our (Post) Modern Perspectives lecture. It talked again of the Medias Message - Massage - Mass Age. We are in a media driven society, however McLuhan argues that society isn't dealing with the speed of change. I wonder about this. Are we running to keep up or have we already been left behind. There is so much available to us today but are we even aware of it? It makes my head spin to think about all of the innovations and development that have taken place even since I was at primary school. In the past decade the internet has become something most of us use regularly. To 'google' something is common language. Mobile phones are something I personally couldn't imagine life without, even though I remember them becoming popular, my father still has one of the first nokias, a 'brick' in comparison to what's available now.
Laptops, IPods, MP3 players, realistic computer games...need I go on. But I wonder if we appreciate this. Is there too much out there? Again I go back to some previous blog comments, Ryan spoke of an anti-social generation; we are loosing the ability to socialize. Is this why we are anti-social? Are we compensating for the speed of change by communicating more with technology.
I had never thought about the speed of change in a case of it being too fast. Society always pushes and pushes for new developments. This pressure is most likely why companies push for the development, they know the demand and market is there. Are we moving too fast though? Is it a bad thing? Although at the speed we are developing maybe we are missing out on things. Can we really treasure a creation if we are constantly waiting for the next bigger and better thing?
posted by Ceara Nissa @ 9:18 pm
1 Comments:
Ryan, I agree completely with your question as to whether all this technology is helping us develop as a human race. Personally yeah I feel a lot of it is down to commercialism and, as Kate said, the need to keep up. Although Kate I do think you need to give the kids today some credit. The kids I know yes they are more techonologically advanced than we were at that stage but they still can rely on their immaginations, just as much as we did. Sure in some cases they are aided by toys that can talk back to you or have so many extras its astounding a child knows what to do with them, but the land of immagination still exists. A lack of storytime can still be used as a threat. But all of this brings us right back to the point...do we need it? Children can do just fine without all these fancy technologies, and they'd probably be a lot healthier too. Unfortunately the World we live in isn't great at advertising life as we want it, the basic needs a human has. Maybe we in the future can help change this.
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