technoculture314-09

It is the fact that human nowadays rely too much on technologies that we have to admit our tendencies of becoming the slave of technologies. However, it is also interesting that all those existing technologies up to now are developed by humans, thus it can be said that the relationship between human and technologies are very complicated. On the one hand, people investigate updated technologies for better living standard and bring these technologies to an advanced level based on the usage of existing ones. For instance, when the iPod Touch first time appeared in the market, people were attracted by the unique touch screen function that whoever had one is considered to be cool. Based the popularity of the iTouch first generation, the second generation was soon introduced and followed by the iPhone first generation and so on. Now the iPod Touch and the iPhone are everywhere on the street, they are no longer the “new thing” as they are used to be. Technicians in Apple Company used their technical skills to develop such new technologies and they keep researching and developing new generations based on what they already have. Thus, this is a kind of relationship that it is the human who firstly discovered the basic technology and the basic technology leads human to investigate more.

On the other hand, it is likely that people will be struggled if they are not surround by technologies. One can conclude that people become the slave of technologies that they depend on them so much. However, it is worthwhile to argue that whether we are the slave of the new technologies or the slave of ourselves, because after all, it is human who made them. It is a circular motion that the chain starts with the technician, followed by the basic technology then another technician and so on. Such fact also leads to a question of whether we can trust ourselves anymore. From the large number usage of calculators when we were in high school to the grammar and spelling checking in the Microsoft Office, people rely on technologies so much that they start doubting themselves. People forget their abilities of determining what is right or wrong, but then it is necessary to think whether it is the technologies themselves lead to such results or human. New technologies cannot be existed if there is no smart person in the world.