How does having access to technology that allows us get the information and images below help or hiner our appreciation of the lens technology related discoveries people such as Galileo, Ramon y Cajal, and Sherrington made in the past?
(Thanks to Peggy for sending)
When it comes to technology for the advancement of mankind two distinct arguments come to mind. The first argument leans toward the progression of technology. Advancing technology allows us as people to discover new things within (and in this case) beyond our world. We will never be able to answer all of life's mysteries, but by increasing the potency of the tools we use to measure our environment we can narrow down possibilities and solve SOME pieces to of the puzzle.
The counter argument to this however, the more technology we have the more isolated we become. This is of great importance because we're studying psychology. How and why people behave the way they do. If people become more isolated the only thing we can hope to study is the decreasing amount of interpersonal interaction that becomes involved in everyday life.
I have to completely agree with that you are saying here. I like the two arguments that you made here. They are both very true. Technology has helped us to advance in a wide variety of areas in life today. Without technology, much of the stuff we know today may still be undiscovered. I also agree with your other argument as well and how we are becoming isolated and rely on technology too much.
Great response! Couldn't have said it better myself! Technology is arguably the most important thing we as human possess here on Earth and the more it improves the more instruments we have to enhance our lifestyle or even our intellect.
I think technology has enabled us to do many things that people 100 or even 50 years ago would not even imagine. I still cannot believe some of the discoveries from the time I was ten until now. Technology has enabled us to exapand our communication not only among friends and family but also with other countries. It has played a large part in the globalization of our world as well as help solve many 'mysteries'.
However, I do not think that we will find the answers to everything we're looking for, whatever that may be. There are just somethings that are meant to be left unknown. I think with the advancement of technology people are starting to rely more and more on the findings of certain things or the manipulation of things that shouldn't be pestered with. As a human race we have become lazy and lack the curiosity we once had. Although technology is a major addition to our world, I think it is also harming us.
I agree entirely with the previous comments to this post. It is amazing how many technological advances have been made in just the past decade or two. Each year the advances continue to grow and grow and I can’t even imagine what is to come in the future. Technology has allowed us to discover parts of the universe, but there will always be more out there that will remain a mystery to us as humans. Previous discoveries from people like Galileo, Ramon y Cajal, and Sherrington have helped contribute to the advances we have made since then. I would imagine that these individuals would be amazed, just as any other person would be, at what we now know.
Technology has become such a great tool for us and we make things even better then they were before on a yearly basis. In one of my other classes we were talking about computers and how smart they are that we've already made such great advances on them, that for an hour a day in Japan, Kindergarteners are taught by a computer. So what does that say about so many of us trying to get a teaching degree? Not long from now we'll be replaced by computers? I sure hope not because computers may be smart, but they can't give a child everything they need to learn. Technology is making it easier and easier for us not to have much human contact anymore.
I would say that having technology hinders our appreciation of lens technology of the past. Its mildly interesting to learn how these things got started, but knowing what we do now it's not as impressive as I'm sure it was at the time it was discovered.