Technology of the Future Essay

that will have an impact on the Marine Corps in 15-20 years is the utilization of technology. Modern technology such as computers and personal hand held devices have its advantage and disadvantages. Computers are able to speed up communications, procedures, and save lives with the use of robots to disarm an improvised explosive device. With the advantages that it brings to the fight, it also has its drawbacks. Technology can take away from important life skills, degrade human interaction, and…

controversy for this essay is whether or not technology has a negative or positive affect on people. In order to help explain whether or not technology has a positive or negative affect on us there will be four articles that will be discussed within this essay. The first article is “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens by Ferris Jabr, “Get Smarter” by Jamais Cascio, and “Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees…

Teleportation technology has been seen by many as a Frankenstein event in humanity’s long history. Although the technology has inspired many with its numerous potential applications, it has also terrified a lot of pessimists. Teleportation is a technology that promises to provide instantaneous travel from one location, for instance, Bangkok to another site far from the earth like the Alpha Centauri star system. Such power is one that is worth grasping after. Some have gone ahead to suggest that…

days always have some sort of technology around with them, everywhere they go. As a result, parents have wondered what would happen if the technology was taken away from their children. Parents worked together with their schools and made a national week called, “Shut Down Your Screen Week”, where students are to quit using technology for a week. There are many reasons why schools should participate in this national event. Some of these reasons are because technology makes kids distracted,…

of the future but more a development of possibilities in the future. With how quickly technology is currently advancing in our current society, my only concern is usually how quickly I can get my hands on these new features. While reading the story, I realized that there are a lot of sacrifices our society is making as our technology is developing faster and faster. My current emotional reality has been greatly altered, and I am much more aware of the downsides of futuristic technologies.…

we are surrounded by machines. Technology is always advancing in strides and leaps and now we are running towards the finish line, artificial intelligence. Now there are a number of different viewpoints on humanities latest goal. One of the most vocal of them is from the renowned author, Sherry Turkle. In Turkle's latest book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, she has taken up the crusade to show what technology is doing to us. Turkles ideas…

might become more vertically integrated. Having companies invest in their own automation processes might drive the industry to be more vertical. For small social media companies, this might reduce their cost by lowering production costs. In the future social media, it will have every tool without needing another source. Communications, commerce, audience and advertising will be in a single platform. However, there is room for horizontal integration as well. The clearest example of horizontal…

Author Steven W. Schmidt (2013) looks into the future and what this means for education in his article, “The Future of Adult Education.” More specifically, Schmidt looks into five ideas that will help promote adult education in the near future. Having “flexibility” in the way education is given to students is the first idea, “As adult educators, we need to be flexible in the response to the changing…

In order to understand the human race, one must know what they hope for and what they fear. What they hope for says many things about their collective state of mind, and what they fear is a concoction of past and future occurrences. Science fiction film is a way to visualize how society is feeling at any point in time, and architecture is a way that requires no words. Simply glancing at the set of any science fiction film can reveal the state in which the movie takes place. A lot can also be…

growing up throughout the two thousands I took a lot of technology for granted, assuming that they have already been around for a while and that it was common for everyone to have these technologies, for example the internet, computers, and video games, but it wasn’t until I was older that I realized how fast technology was advancing, and how much new technology I took for granted as a kid. We see great ideas and new advancements in technology pop up throughout our time growing up, but only to…