Technologic

First of all, like i said before, we are so spoiled and don't even think twice about it! Technolgy is basically anything that has been made to help make things easier. Technology was said to be the process of creating things to meet our needs and wants. But what defines the great line between "need" and "want"? Things start to intertwine when you get too detailed. Our needs/necessities are food, air and water, right!? Air is a free-be, but food and water are where things become difficult. We have so many choices of food. We want Edwardo's, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Subway, Olive Garden, home made food...and anything else we like/want, whatever gives our taste buds satisfaction. And then Water...why are there so many different types of bottled water? We have faucet water for free, that is clean! What's better? Aquafina or Ice Mountain? Fiji or DejaBlue? Nestle or Meijer brand? Water is water! it tastes good as long as it is cold. So why am i rambling on about this stuff? Where am i going? Well these choices were made by people who decided to make things more interesting by the process of technology. The places were built in order to make your food and bottle your faucet water from somewhere else. Besides these basic necessities, comes everything else we "want", not "need". We get the electronics that we call "technology", we get amusement parks, water parks, movie theatres (with movies of course), record players which evolved into iPods, bikes which evoled into motorcycles and buggies which turned into cars, paintings turned into photographs (b/c cameras were created), needles and thread were made into a sewing machine... Everything in our life was first something simple.Engineers, scientists and construction has helped create these things through out the years. So technology has definitely impacted my life. Unless you live in a third-world country, your choices are endless. From the second i wake up to the second i go to sleep, technolgy is inloved. I wake up to an alarm clock, i shower with running water, cook my food in a toaster or microwave, i get to school and back home by a car, i eat food from a refrigerator and use a stove, i decide what entertainment i want, which then leads me into a break down of all these things and things in between. I listen to music pretty much all day from a CD, ipod, tape player, radio, music videos on TV or online, which were created through technology. I play video games, i communicate with a phone, i wear different clothes that were designed and manufactured. Take a look around your house and think where they came from, how were they made, what would be there had that thing not existed. Why do we need anything, what is it worth? It is worth a short amount of our attention and gives us a certain amount of pleasure before we move onto the next thing. So again, where is your line between "need" and "want"?





(!: Mrs. Medley, i think i turned this into an exploratoty essay on accident!)


nerds:
uno:http://hoekstraj1.blogspot.com/
dos: http://thelyricalassasin.blogspot.com/