Technology Changing Society

This video was Aaron Koblin explaining how he believed interfaces were going to dominate the 21^st century. He believed that novels dominated the 19^th century, movies dominated the 20^th, and now it was interfaces time to take over. I have to agree that interfaces are becoming huge in our society. With the latest technology, they can make stuff easier and more convenient. It also helps researchers and other people to study trends in our society. The examples of the text messages and the airplanes were great displays of how you can analyze data and how they fluctuated throughout the day depending on what time it was. These futuristic looking displays show what some of the things that our future can hold. These would have been unheard of 50 years ago, but they are amazing glances at a distance and are improving every year. This shows technology is improving all the time and we have no idea what might be able to be done in the future. This cutting age technology is showing us more about how our society behaves and can predict more stuff for the future. We can predict every year that there will be more text messages sent at 12:00 am on New Years than at 5:22 on another random day. Even though some of this might seem obvious, a lot of it isn’t and can help us understand more about humans. We learn certain behaviors that can now be predicted of humans. The problem with this is humanity is getting so advanced that it is ruining some parts of society. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages and technology is included in this. An example of this is shopping online. It is great for people to be able to shop and get exactly what they want with the click of a button, but is making people have less contact with others. It also is taking away jobs from local communities. Eventually shopping could end up being almost exclusively online. Technological advances created this and can predict that humans would rather not have to get out and go buy something, but it does not mean that this is a positive for society. I don’t agree with the quote given in the blog. I don’t feel like knowing more about our society necessarily makes us feel like we have to maintain it. This was an interesting talk and I really enjoyed the visuals given to explain his information.