Week 8 - Technology and Society

When I first think about technology and it's relation to our society, I tend to focus on efficiency. Not just getting things done faster, but covering more detail within a shorter amount of time. For example, medical technology able to detect and diagnose faster and from a vaster library. And more of a practical example, a smart phone. Our phones are always doing more - taking high quality pictures, capturing HD video, display various media, maintain a social network, and so on across a broad area. As a result society seems smaller, yet there's an equal inward push; take the previously mentioned social networking sites for example. You're able to keep in touch with people on a global scale, yet you're doing so in a very isolated manner.