Thursday 5 April 2012

The Future of Digital Culture

The digital world and reality are too very different subject areas, no matter how much we try to make the digital world connect with reality, nothing is ever going to match. So many people these days can get totally engrossed in gaming or online chatting that they completely forget about the real world we actually live in.

The video above shows shocking equations of what technology is doing to our world.


However, society is pretty much stuck within technology now, and technology is constantly upgrading and changing to make our lives easier. We are coming more and more reliant on technology, making us lazier, did you know that more than one third of U.S. adults are now obese, is this because we are allowing technology to do everything for us?

From the moment I wake up in the morning and make a slice of toast to go with my email checking, I have using technology to make things easier. It seems it is very hard to go anywhere these days with out coming accross technology.

What I would like to figger out, is our we actually going to loose our reality? Even if you walk outdoors into the great outside, most people usually end up connected to their mobile phones or iPads. In a previous blog I also spoke about Robots, will we end up having robots do completely everything whilst we live a lazy life of "luxury".

http://youtu.be/pDEDPHa9ehY <- This video talks, and questions the idea of robots taking over.

People use Myspace and Facebook to create a certain "dream" identity that they want to keep, however in reality that identity doesn't matter at all, leading to people getting addicted to who they come accross as online.

Even though I enjoy technology, I admit, I would not be able to live without it one bit, however, I personally do not think that it is healthy for people of today to be too sucked into it, there needs to be a healthy balance  between whats real, and whats not.
We cannot dismiss the technical world, we are way too reliant on it, without it, it would now become extremely hard to apply for jobs, keep in contact with friends, and gather certain information and gossip.


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