J.Scoblionko 9/3

I really enjoyed both of discussions we had in class this week. One of the topics that had the greatest on my was the content theme of technological developments and how they have impacted society. I am firm believer that with so many technological advancements happening every day, that that we as a society are essentially addicted to the hunt for the next technological breakthrough that makes life ten times. The issue with this dependency is that we have entered an age where we are starting to demand technology that does not exist yet. Furthermore, with technology developing at an exponential rate, we have literally stumbled into a new definition of what it means to live. What I mean by this is that we have become so fixated on making our lives easier, making information instant, and using our brains as little as possible, that we no longer deal with the simple daily struggles that unified previous generations. Since we have started to move away from the actual struggles of survival and began obsessing over things that don't REALLY impact us such as who posted a selfie at the beach of what your Timehop tells you you did 2 years ago today. We live in the era of the selfie; the era where to Google is now a verb; the era where "trending" is the new "News." I am not saying that technological advances are bad, I simply believe that idea that "new is always better" no longer applies. I think we are over-saturated with information to the point that we choose to ignore the latest political news so we have more time to watch cat videos on YouTube. I am not sure how exactly to solve these kinds of societal issues, i guess that is why I get so frustrated with them, especially when I find myself exemplifying some of the social and intellectual tendencies that bother me.