Sunday, 14 February 2016

Task

Discussion: Can tech make a better world?

Our grandparents were a generation which lived without technology, how would our lives be if we had to go back in time and live without that confort?

Perhaps technology has caused us some problems and has changed society: a factor to consider is it has become a barrier between people, we have lost proximity we are used to talk first by social media and then face to face.

Besides it has affected to the ecosystem, because technology is produced by indutrsy, and industry uses technology. It's everywhere we go and this generates toxic gas which go to the enviroment, moreover creates a lot of waste.

Another important aspect is it's true that we are surrounded by technological airwaves; these causes diseases in our health that we haven't dscovered yet. 

Finally it has improved our live quality but we think that technology should become healthier for humans and enviorment.

On the other hand technology brings to our lives too many positive things that we don't value. The most important I consider is the way it enhance our efficiency in every economic activity we do and how it has influenced our life expectancy.

Plus, technology is a source of information and of formation. This resource helps to find out the best manner to do any activity or choice. Every single technology device we use suposes a replace of older ways and a development of the humanity.

To sum up, technology has a lot of negative aspects but definitely positive have exceeded the negative because live is better with technology than without it. 

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Task: TED



Can technology solve our big problems?


Jason Pontin starts talking about Apolo to contextualise the importance of technology. They explains the resources used to arrive to the moon and then the motive why the government wanted to go to the moon. "The stronger emotion was of wonder at the transcendent power of technology". Landed on the moon was a result of great technological peak advances such as penicillin, the airplane... 


But nowadays technology gives us trivial toys like iPhone or iPad, but tech can't solve the great problems of humanity. Silicon Valley it has the clue of that: they have the created less ambitious companies and the role of venture capitalists to stop creating transformational ideas, but for incremental funding problems or false problems. They have always preferred small investments and they have put aside the investment for the development of technologies, which require a large capital. 

Another answer to that point is sometimes we choose not to solve big problems because of the failures of politics. Not to develop alternative energies or not to end the famine lies in political problems. Apolo has become a metaphor for the ability of technology to sort out our problems, but first we must try.