The computer is a shining beacon of progress in technology. Or is that just my laptop light showing it’s in hibernation mode…? hmm…

Well either way this weeks reading certainly got me thinking about the progress of writing and technologies as it spoke of the way Egyptians would move from hieroglyphics which lasted thousands of years (does that count as it being an impressive technology?) to the preferred “flexibility and portability” of papyrus scrolls. This instigated an idea of what will happen with all our information if it ever was deemed to rigid? I know it may be extremely hard to imagine but what if it was a possibility that writing on computers suddenly became the outdated way to store information? I would propose the internet would be a sound storage base but who’s to say that might not one day become unstable and will it last forever? (Will Skynet take over?!?!?!) If the Egyptians once cast aside their hieroglyphic writing as obsolete and opted for a newer technology who’s to say we won’t be doing the same eventually. But herein lies the issue. We have vastly more evidence of the Egyptian culture through their stone Hieroglyphs than we do of the preferred papyrus scrolls. Nonetheless I believe it poses an important question that although as the reading suggests computers have cultivated and integrated all previous technologies into the one and made it extremely easy to use, flexible and simple to edit, will there be any evidence of how far advanced humans had become if all of it is stored on a hard drive that they wont know how to use?

I cant answer these questions but maybe some of you guys have some ideas. Let us know below.

P.S: in any event someone should make sure that they protect John Conner just incase Skynet is legit….