Technologically dependent; Blog 4

            For about 20 years now the world has become very digitized, as in very technologically applicable. We have opportunities such as books to be eBooks, as in not going to a library and checking out a book; but going online and saving it to your kindle device, or even an application on your phone. Even the whole process of watching movies have changed, or not even watching them but checking them out, instead of going to a blockbuster down the street and looking through thousands of movies, you can drive to the corner store and just search the redbox, or log on to your Netflix account and stream the movie from your computer to your television, which is not only cheaper but easier. But not only has the entertainment retrospect of life has changed but so has other stuff like going to the doctor’s office, most offices don’t save background information on files anymore but rather on computers, and flash drives to save space and even save tree’s. So if the whole computer system was to shut down what would they do? Of course most have back-up drives and such but still there is a small possibility that may not be reliable. The question asked in this blog is technology eventually going to ruin  mankind? Ruin us as in if they whole world had some kind of catastrophic disaster and aliens or even other types of creatures or humans invaded us, would they know anything about us? No they wouldn’t, especially if they did not have the same kind of technology as we do. Such as computers, laptops, iPhones, email addresses, or even if this disaster didn’t ruin every bit of electronics we had would these creatures know how to work it, probably not. If our 50 year old parents barely can work a computer and someone is clearly showing them how, how on the earth do you expect someone or something to learn with no help at all? Ultimately this would become a problem, not necessarily for the people ruined by the disaster but for the people coming to earth. Why? Because they wouldn’t know anything about what possibly happened to us, what we were like, how to maybe help the planet and not hurt us. They wouldn’t know how to access any of that information because we are so technologically dependent. When we have artifacts from the past it helps us maintain our present; such as the declaration of independence, if people never had found that, or been able to understand it our country or even the world may not be what it is today, it could be totally chaotic and out of control because we would have no since of government. So in reality this isn’t hurting us, because we know how to use and develop technology but it could possibly hurt future generations, creatures, or beings that come to our planet; only in the case of catastrophic event.