Sunday, March 8, 2009

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year: Reflection

The thing that stood out the most from this video compared to the past couple of videos like it was that part about the illegal downloading. 649,000 song were downloaded in the 3 minutes I took to watch the presentation. It made me wonder what else could be happening in those 3 minutes, if that many songs could be downloaded how many other illegal things could be happening? It is all very scary to me that technology is advancing so quickly and those providing an easier way for people to be taken advantage of. I suppose on the plus side of that, technology is also making it much easier for children to learn and absorb history, facts and statistics. I wonder if we as humans will ever be able to catch up to what we invent in technology. It said in the movie that by 2010 a super computer would be invented and it would out think the human mind, that is awfully scary considering that it is only next year that this predicted computer will be made. What will we do when technology runs our lives? This makes me think of the movie Wall-E. Everyone depends so heavily on technology and robots, they don't even have to move. They all become obese and can't function. What will we do if we get to this point?

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