Reading week four’s reading ‘As We May Think’ it came to my awareness that advancing technology is all around is. It’s not just that, that we plug into a wall, it exists in every aspect of our material lives. It’s in our clothes, the pens we use, our food, our language, the list goes on, but my question is where does it end? We all sit and watch, or get frantically involved as the new iPad or Samsung phone get brought out onto the market, and I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the time between production models and advances is seemingly getting shorter with each new model brought out. Vanner Bush touches on the idea that what is the point of creating a new technology if you’re not extending the idea to the right people. So far in the this day and age, ‘the right people’ seem to be the ones who can make the most revenue out of your idea. For someone who is not directly involved in any scientific background, the extension of our technological ways seems only for the material benefit of upgrading personal status when one gets their hands on the latest technological product. I even see this in clothing. An idea is useless unless in the hands of the right person; the person who can make take it to the big time, take it to the public and make it known. Clothing goes through trends faster than most other technologies in the modern world and through this I think we gain the most perspective of science being ‘in one end, out the other’ when it comes to its use. Speaking from a strictly material benefit, which I believe Bush’s article is heading in the direction of, science tends to lose faith in itself when the idea brought about by the workers are lost in translation or don’t find their respective home in time for them to be brought of use. And I think it is this ‘matter of time’ attitude that brings down the great ideas of today. Our world is so fast passed and always looking for the next big thing, that we tend to forget that was is being presented to us in the markets is something that is of great thought and hard work. It’s hard to see where, in this modern world, technology is going to say, “hey, cut me a break and appreciate what you have for now” because all I can see is the impatience of us all forcing advances and expenses in places that they’re not particularly needed.

The section in Bush’s reading that describes in detail the advances of the small camera that can be placed on top of the photographers head, made me think to back to a YouTube clip I watched about the advances in camera technology, here it is:

Taking Photos With Your Hands With The Ubi-Camera #DigInfo