Assignment 2- Ella Jensen

I love having the technology we do today, obviously I couldn't imagine life without it. I tried one week to not use technology at all to prove my mom wrong and I did it but I was so bored and all I could do was bake. I made 13 pies and 40 cookies in one week. Today, technology makes school ridiculously easy because anytime I'm struggling with a topic or a question, all I have to do is look it up. And when I write essays, I just speak it into my notes and then make sure everything looks okay before submitting. I do recognize the abuses in our society though, the amounts of times I have had to sit through the cyber bulling presentation makes that very evident. Also, the amount of times people use the internet to plagiarize is actually scary. Personally, having access to the technology that I do hasn't hurt me or handicapped me in anyway that I'm self aware of. I'm kind of scared how technology will develop over the next 50 or 100 years. I fully believe that if taken to a certain extent our society could end up like one in Brave New World or other dystopian fantasies. We are so close to being able to commercially genetically modify babies and so when would that become the norm? I don't think I would want to live in another time period just because I am so lazy because I have all of this technology but if I was raised in that time period ignorant of the future, then I wouldn't mind having to adapt to less technology.