Monday, October 15, 2007
The Unflat World
In reading "The Unflat World", I stumbled across a line that caught my attention that I absolutely agree with. It was the first sentence of the second paragraph on page 536. It says " I believe that capabilites create intentions". I couldn't agree with that more. It is so true, that, if we are capable of doing or using something for one specific purpose, it will be used for many different purposes, including things that it wasn't meant for.
You see, technology is a weird thing. We have the privilege of being able to use such advanced forms of technology that people thought they would never see and, of course, when these forms of technology are introduced to us, we as people sometimes take advantage of them in the wrong way. Also stated in this paragraph is a quote that backs up my opinion and agreement with Thomas Friedman. " If we create cell phones with cameras in them, people will use them for all sorts of tasks, from cheating on tests, to calling Grandma in her nursing home on her ninetieth birthday from the top of a mountain in New Zealand."
It is very true that in the world today, there will always be opportunities and many things are very capable of happening and when they do, you will always have people out there who will look to use that form of technology the way that it wasn't supposed to be used but as long as their are capabilities, which there are, it will always happen.
You see, technology is a weird thing. We have the privilege of being able to use such advanced forms of technology that people thought they would never see and, of course, when these forms of technology are introduced to us, we as people sometimes take advantage of them in the wrong way. Also stated in this paragraph is a quote that backs up my opinion and agreement with Thomas Friedman. " If we create cell phones with cameras in them, people will use them for all sorts of tasks, from cheating on tests, to calling Grandma in her nursing home on her ninetieth birthday from the top of a mountain in New Zealand."
It is very true that in the world today, there will always be opportunities and many things are very capable of happening and when they do, you will always have people out there who will look to use that form of technology the way that it wasn't supposed to be used but as long as their are capabilities, which there are, it will always happen.
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A good post.
Consumer toys or engines of productivity and increased efficiency? Are these tech miracles of the digital revolution simply for our amusement or will they make us an even more powerful global economy?
These new technologies give us the capablity to compete but they also provide our rivals with the same opportunity. Just who will make the best use largely depends on a national political and corporate culture, as well as an individual willingness to adopt new skills and ways of working with these new technologies.
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Consumer toys or engines of productivity and increased efficiency? Are these tech miracles of the digital revolution simply for our amusement or will they make us an even more powerful global economy?
These new technologies give us the capablity to compete but they also provide our rivals with the same opportunity. Just who will make the best use largely depends on a national political and corporate culture, as well as an individual willingness to adopt new skills and ways of working with these new technologies.
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