tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191279729939865427.post8307558373493811013..comments2023-07-06T02:52:39.999-07:00Comments on Futures-Past Editions: How the Digital Age Is Changing Everything - Joe Vadalmamchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191279729939865427.post-1016271434842343522013-05-21T11:43:23.569-07:002013-05-21T11:43:23.569-07:00And yet with all of this new technology, what have...And yet with all of this new technology, what have we used it for? Primarily to view extreme porn and to yak with each other about other people. There is still great sci-fi being written, but the dystopias outnumber and outsell the utopias. No one appears to be very optimistic that we will use all of this exciting new technology to expand the horizons of humanity. Instead we sit around like moody pre-teens staring into our own belly-buttons, wondering why we have to learn anything at all when everything is available on-line at the click of a search button.<br /><br />I spend a lot of time in high schools as a substitute teacher, and the students are technologically adept, true. They can run rings around any adults with their intuitive grasp of any new tech-toys that appear. But talk about expanding to other planets? Talk about engineering world peace? Talk about using the omni-present technology to improve the lot of people the world over? They look up from their I-phones, "Oh, are you still talking? I was texting." Sigh. Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.com