Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Duality of Technology
Despite playing a prominent role on our life, technology is not well understood by most of us. It is feared by the elderly and idolized by the youth. Very few people understand both its positive and negative potential. But I do. I have suffered the consequences of an information addiction and have benefited from life-changing internet projects. Though "the advantages... of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population," I can make the distribution more even than it would otherwise be. I can work to create positive uses for it and to warn others about its disadvantages. So I have a new goal to spread the positive influence of technology.
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I like the idea that we can be the ones to increase the equal distribution of technology. What are some specific ways you think that we can help? Should we support efforts to spread technology to the poor, such as the One Laptop Per Child project?
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