This weeks reading by Judy Wajcman looked at how technology in this digital age is being used, mainly in its representation in the ways in which we use todays current media in work and our everyday lives, comparing it to the thoughts and predictions of the yesteryear. Upon the reading Wajcman suggests that the way in which we use todays current media has become a blur between our work and social lives and thus become a far cry to what the original thoughts of how technology would be used to better our lives, instead of it run us into an early grave. The evolutions of technology and the digital age has always had the constant debate of for or against in the vote for technology. This reading speaks mainly for the against side of things, discussing how we as a society have grown lazy and are allowing our devices and obsession to social media leak into our home lives and work lives in some unhealthy ways.

I can see where this debate comes from, working and studying in the media industry the lines can become blurred and thus unclear like Wajcamn suggests, yet during the reading I saw no actually evidence that would give plausible reasoning as to whether or not technology as hindered our lives from those early predictions, considering the amazing things we can  now do with technology. To me personally I think they are thinking more robot butlers and self driving cars, they should be thinking to more the 22nd century in that case. Overall though I believe that we as humans do have some issue when it comes to the correct use of anything for that matter and I believe that social media like Facebook or YouTube or even work related media not just for leisure needs portion control, but is just the way of the world at the moment . On a lighter note this way of thinking did create many jobs in the script writing and film department for robot domination and dystopian/ apocalyptic worlds so all in all has created jobs in my industry. BONUS!

 

 

 

 

 

Judy Wajcman, 2015, ‘Finding Time in a Digital Age’ in Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ch.7.